Title : 
A monolithic optical front-end for soft-decision error correction decoders
         
        
            Author : 
Sakib, Muhammad N. ; Hai, Mohammed Shafiqul ; Liboiron-Ladouceur, O.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We investigate a monolithic optical front-end for soft-decision low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoders based on 100 Gb/s polarization division multiplexed quadrature shift keying (PM-QPSK) coherent detection.
         
        
            Keywords : 
cloud computing; decoding; error correction codes; multiplexing; optical communication; optical modulation; parity check codes; quadrature phase shift keying; LDPC; PM-QPSK; bit rate 100 Gbit/s; coherent detection; low-density parity-check; monolithic optical front-end; polarization division multiplexed quadrature shift keying; soft-decision error correction decoders; Adaptive optics; Optical coupling; Optical device fabrication; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Optical waveguides; Photodetectors;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2013 IEEE
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Waikoloa, HI
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4673-5059-4
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/PHOSST.2013.6614480