FEC performance of PMD-impaired optical communication system with multiple-wavelength interleaving

Author

Xie, Bing ; Li, Zhihong ; Guan, Yong Liang ; Lu, Chao

Author_Institution

Electr. & Electron. Eng. Sch., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

Volume

16

Issue

3

fYear

2004

fDate

3/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

936

Lastpage

938

Abstract

In this letter, a novel wavelength-interleaved forward-error correction scheme to mitigate the polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) impairment in optical transmission system is proposed and analyzed. With double-wavelength interleaving and Reed Solomon (255, 239) coding, this method can extend the PMD tolerance by more than 20% at an output bit-error rate of 10^-12, and about 14%-36% for an outage probability of 10^-6, over a similar system without interleaving. It can also provide a net coding gain of over 6 dB at all tolerable PMD levels, which cannot be achieved by a noninterleaved system. For a four-wavelength interleaving system, the corresponding performance gains are over 26%.

Keywords

Reed-Solomon codes; error statistics; forward error correction; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; wavelength division multiplexing; FEC; PMD-impaired optical communication system; Reed Solomon coding; bit-error rate; forward-error correction; multiple-wavelength interleaving; net coding gain; optical transmission; polarization-mode dispersion; Bit error rate; Forward error correction; High speed optical techniques; Interleaved codes; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical receivers; Performance analysis; Performance gain; Polarization mode dispersion;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2004.823745

Filename

1269845