Title :
A 45 GS/s optical soft-decision front-end
Author :
Sakib, M.N. ; Moayedi, M. ; Liboiron-Ladouceur, O.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
Abstract :
A low complexity 45 GS/s soft-decision optical front-end is demonstrated for low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoders. A net coding gain of 7.06 dB at 10-7 is experimentally achieved for 45 Gb/s NRZ-OOK optical signal.
Keywords :
amplitude shift keying; optical communication equipment; parity check codes; LDPC; NRZ-OOK optical signal; bit rate 45 Gbit/s; gain 7.06 dB; low complexity soft-decision optical front-end; low-density parity-check decoders; net coding gain; Adaptive optics; Decoding; Optical amplifiers; Optical fibers; Optical receivers; Parity check codes;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Burlingame, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0731-5
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358728
