Title :
Receiver Sensitivity of Advanced Modulation Formats for 40 Gb/s DWDM Transmission with and without FEC
Author :
Leibrich, Jochen ; Serbay, Murat ; Baumgart, Stefan ; Rosenkranz, Werner ; Schimmler, Manfred
Author_Institution :
Chair for Communications, University of Kiel, Kaiserstrasse 2, 24143 Kiel, Germany, email: jol@tf.uni-kie.de
Abstract :
Receiver sensitivity of a wide range of current modulation formats including multi-level formats and coherent detection is studied by extensive Monte-Carlo simulations and by experiment. Required OSNR for BER of 10-9 with and without FEC is determined.
Keywords :
Bit error rate; Databases; Forward error correction; Modulation; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Signal to noise ratio; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications, 2006. ECOC 2006. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes, France
Print_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2006.4801301
