• DocumentCode
    1830606
  • Title

    Operating points for low-density parity-check codes in on-off keyed fiber-optic transmission systems

  • Author

    Smith, Benjamin P. ; Kschischang, Frank R.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    22-26 March 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We consider the rate/distance tradeoff for LDPC-coded OOK systems under soft-decision iterative decoding. Below 6000 km, EXIT-chart optimized irregular LDPC codes outperform systems that use a nonlinearity-reducing constrained inner code.
  • Keywords
    amplitude shift keying; iterative decoding; optical fibre communication; parity check codes; LDPC-coded OOK system; low-density parity-check code; on-off keyed fiber-optic transmission system; soft-decision iterative decoding; Decoding; Dispersion; Error analysis; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber communication; Optical pulse shaping; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Parity check codes; (060.2330) Fiber optics communications; (060.4510) Optical communications;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2606-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-865-0
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5032873