Performance limit of forward error correction codes in optical fiber communications

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 2001Publisher:Opt. Soc. AmericaJournal:OFC 2001. Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit. Technical Digest Postconference Edition (IEEE Cat. 01CH37171), volume 2, pages TuF2-T1

Authors: Y. Cai; N. Ramanujam; J. M. Morris; T. Adali; G. Lenner; A. B. Puc; A. Pilipetskii;

doi: 10.1109/ofc.2001.927308 , 10.1364/ofc.2001.tuf2

Performance limit of forward error correction codes in optical fiber communications

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We investigate performance limits of forward error correction codes in optically-amplified fiber channels with asymmetric channel statistics. We show that the binary symmetric channel approximation underestimates the maximum coding gain achievable in fiber communications.

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