• DocumentCode
    2329301
  • Title

    OSNR margin assessment for optical transmissions in the nonlinear regime with forward error correction

  • Author

    Liu, X. ; Chandrasekhar, S. ; Gnauck, A. ; Wei, X.

  • Author_Institution
    Lucent Technol., Holmdel, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    23-28 March 2003
  • Firstpage
    528
  • Abstract
    We study numerically and experimentally the OSNR margin of high-speed transmissions in the nonlinear regime. It is found that the actual FEC coding gains can be much larger than those quoted for the linear case.
  • Keywords
    encoding; forward error correction; optical fibre communication; optical information processing; FEC coding gain; SNR; forward error correction; nonlinear regime; optical transmissions; Electrons; Error correction; Forward error correction; Nonlinear distortion; Nonlinear optics; Optical noise; Optical polarization; Signal to noise ratio; Testing; Transmission lines;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-746-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2003.1248388
  • Filename
    1248388