Title :
Simulations and Experiments on the Effective Optical Gain of FEC in a GPON Uplink
Author :
Yi, Yanchun ; Verschuere, Stefaan ; Lou, Zhe ; Ossieur, Peter ; Bauwelinck, Johan ; Qiu, Xing-Zhi ; Vandewege, Jan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Technol., Ghent Univ., Gent
Abstract :
This letter studies the effective optical gain of Reed-Solomon (RS) forward-error correction (FEC) in a burst-mode gigabit passive optical network (GPON) uplink. Numerical simulations are made of the performance of an RS (255, 239) FEC code. For the first time, FEC performance is measured in a 1.25-Gb/s burst-mode GPON uplink in the presence of mode partition noise (MPN). Measurements show that the effective optical gain of RS (255, 239) can be considerably higher than 2.7 dB when MPN dominates
Keywords :
Reed-Solomon codes; forward error correction; optical fibre networks; 1.25 Gbit/s; Reed-Solomon code; burst-mode uplink; effective optical gain; forward error correction; gigabit passive optical network uplink; mode partition noise; High speed optical techniques; Laser modes; Laser noise; Laser theory; Optical fiber networks; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks; Burst-mode; Fabry–Pérot (FP) laser; effective optical gain; forward-error correction (FEC); gigabit passive optical network (GPON); mode partition noise (MPN);
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2006.888969
