Forward error correction techniques in long-haul optical transmission systems

Author

Kidorf, H.D. ; Lucero, A. ; Cai, J.X. ; Lenner, G. ; Kerfoot, F.W. ; Davidson, C.R. ; Cai, Y. ; Li, J. ; Chen, J. ; Nissov, M. ; Pilipetskii, A.

Author_Institution

TyCom Labs., Eatontown, NJ, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

477

Abstract

The use of forward error correction (FEC) provides significant coding gain, which has been used to demonstrate error-free transmission under severely-errored operating conditions, with high spectral efficiency, over distances exceeding 10,000 km, and at high bit rates. Recent experiments using FEC have demonstrated aggregate transmission capacity exceeding 2 Tb/s. FEC-coded transmission can tolerate a lower optical SNR on the line, which in turn reduces impairments induced by nonlinearities, with the net effect being an increase in the Q²-factor when signal power is reduced

Keywords

forward error correction; optical fibre communication; optical noise; FEC-coded transmission; Q²-factor; aggregate transmission capacity; coding gain; error-free transmission; forward error correction; high bit rates; high spectral efficiency; long-haul optical transmission system; optical SNR; severely-errored operating conditions; signal power; Bandwidth; Decoding; Error correction; Error correction codes; Fiber nonlinear optics; Forward error correction; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Pulse amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2001. LEOS 2001. The 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7105-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2001.968880

Filename

968880