Title :
Channel coding for polarization-mode dispersion limited optical fiber transmission
Author :
Zhu, Zhenyu ; Puzio, Matthew ; Blum, Rick S. ; Andrekson, Peter A. ; Li, Tiffany Jing ; Sadjadpour, Hamid
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA, USA
Abstract :
The effectiveness of turbo and Reed-Solomon coding in the presence of polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) is investigated numerically in this paper. It is demonstrated that certain Turbo codes perform slightly better then Reed Solomon codes with equal overheads. For a fixed level of PMD and a fixed data-rate, there is an optimal code overhead. This is in contrast to the case of PMD-free optical channels, where high overhead codes perform best.
Keywords :
Reed-Solomon codes; channel coding; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; turbo codes; PMD; Reed-Solomon coding; channel coding; optical fiber transmission; polarization-mode dispersion; turbo coding; Bit error rate; Channel coding; Forward error correction; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Polarization mode dispersion; Reed-Solomon codes; Signal to noise ratio; Turbo codes;
Conference_Titel :
Signals, Systems and Computers, 2004. Conference Record of the Thirty-Eighth Asilomar Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8622-1
DOI :
10.1109/ACSSC.2004.1399304
