• DocumentCode
    1793344
  • Title

    A simple and high-performance method for combining soft-decision FEC with differential encoding in 100 Gbps dual-polarization QPSK system

  • Author

    Karaki, Julie ; Le Bidan, Raphael ; Pincemin, Erwan

  • Author_Institution
    Signal & Commun. Dept., Telecom Bretagne, Brest, France
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    9-13 March 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    By a joint design of FEC and modulation, we demonstrate that it is possible to associate strong SD-FEC and differentially-encoded QPSK systems with negligible coding gain penalty and minor modifications in existing transceivers. The resulting system is robust to cycle slips.
  • Keywords
    forward error correction; light transmission; modulation coding; optical modulation; optical transceivers; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; SD-FEC; bit rate 100 Gbit/s; coding gain penalty; coherent DP-QPSK WDM transmission system; differentially-encoded QPSK system; dual-polarization QPSK system; modulation; soft-decision FEC; transceiver; Bit error rate; Decoding; Encoding; Forward error correction; Parity check codes; Phase shift keying; Receivers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-5575-2994-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1364/OFC.2014.M3A.7
  • Filename
    6886577