Optical Fiber Communication Conference · 2012 · 17 citations · 5 references
EngineeringComputer EngineeringElectrical EngineeringOptimizationOptoelectronicsPhotonicsChannel CodingDigital Signal ProcessingOptical Communication SystemsOptical Signal ProcessingBit-error Rate AnalysisNoise Model EstimationOptical Channel ModelingOptical NoiseSoft-decision Decoding
Deviations away from ideal AWGN statistics degrading FEC performance are demonstrated caused by the nonlinear optical channel and by receiver-side DSP. An according noise model is demonstrated for FEC test and optimization.
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