Title : 
Implementation of soft-decision forward error correction for 100G digital coherent system
         
        
            Author : 
Onohara, Kiyoshi ; Miyata, Yoshikuni ; Sugihara, Kenya ; Sugihara, Takashi ; Kubo, Kazuo ; Yoshida, Hideo ; Koguchi, Kazuumi ; Mizuochi, Takashi
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Inf. Technol. R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Kamakura, Japan
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We discuss implementation and performance evaluation of LDPC(4608,4080) for 100Gb/s throughput by hardware emulator. We expect that an NCG of the LDPC code concatenated with enhanced FEC is 10.8 dB at a BER of 10-15.
         
        
            Keywords : 
error correction codes; error statistics; forward error correction; optical communication; parity check codes; performance evaluation; BER; LDPC code; NCG; bit rate 100 Gbit/s; digital coherent system; gain 10.8 dB; hardware emulator; net coding gain; performance evaluation; soft-decision FEC; soft-decision forward error correction; Bit error rate; Field programmable gate arrays; Iron; Optimized production technology; Payloads; Receivers;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2011 16th
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-61284-288-2
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-986-02-8974-9