Beyond 100G Optical Channel Noise Modeling for Optimized Soft-Decision FEC Performance

Yu Zhao, Juan Qi, Fabian N. Hauske, Changsong Xie, Doris Pflueger, Gerhard Bauch

Optical Fiber Communication Conference · 2012 · 17 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

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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