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

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

7-10 Nov. 2004

Firstpage

1068

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signals, Systems and Computers, 2004. Conference Record of the Thirty-Eighth Asilomar Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8622-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACSSC.2004.1399304

Filename

1399304