Open AccessChannel coding for polarization-mode dispersion limited optical fiber transmission
Author(s) -
Matthew Puzio,
Zhenyu Zhu,
Rick S. Blum,
Peter A. Andrekson,
Tiffany Li,
Hamid R. Sadjadpour
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/opex.12.004333
Subject(s) - polarization mode dispersion , optics , forward error correction , computer science , polarization (electrochemistry) , coding (social sciences) , optical fiber , physics , decoding methods , telecommunications , mathematics , chemistry , statistics
We investigate numerically the usefulness of Turbo and Reed-Solomon coding in the presence of Polarization-Mode Dispersion (PMD) using computer simulations. It is demonstrated that 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 negligible PMD, where high overhead codes perform best.