Optical trellis-coded modulation (oTCM)

H. Bülow, G. Thielecke, Fred Buchali

Optical Fiber Communication Conference · 2004 · 24 citations · 4 references

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Abstract

In a new transmission format the output of a 10 Gb/s convolutional FEC encoder is directly mapped on an optical 10 Gbaud DQPSK signal. Versus 10 Gb/s DPSK, 4.5 dB OSNR gain is predicted without any increase of bandwidth.

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