Title :
FEC overhead and fiber nonlinearity mitigation: Performance and power consumption tradeoffs
Author :
Rafique, Danish ; Rahman, Tanvir ; Napoli, Antonio ; Calabro, Stefano ; Spinnler, Bernhard
Author_Institution :
Coriant R&D GmbH, Munich, Germany
Abstract :
Increasing the FEC overhead necessitates substantial power-consumption requirements, alternatively, super-channel nonlinear mitigation ensures 30% reduced power-consumption, for a fixed distance at a lower overhead, and up to 35% improved reach, at a fixed FEC overhead.
Keywords :
forward error correction; next generation networks; nonlinear optics; optical fibre networks; power consumption; FEC overhead; fiber nonlinearity mitigation; next generation network; performance tradeoff; power consumption; superchannel nonlinear mitigation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Forward error correction; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Power demand; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.W2A.32
