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A Pragmatic Coded Modulation Scheme for High-Spectral-Efficiency Fiber-Optic Communications

Information Theory 2015-06-03 v1 math.IT

Abstract

A pragmatic coded modulation system is presented that incorporates signal shaping and exploits the excellent performance and efficient high-speed decoding architecture of staircase codes. Reliable communication within 0.62 bits/s/Hz of the estimated capacity (per polarization) of a system with L=2000 km is provided by the proposed system, with an error floor below 1E-20. Also, it is shown that digital backpropagation increases the achievable spectral efficiencies---relative to linear equalization---by 0.55 to 0.75 bits/s/Hz per polarization.

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@article{arxiv.1201.4108,
  title  = {A Pragmatic Coded Modulation Scheme for High-Spectral-Efficiency Fiber-Optic Communications},
  author = {Benjamin P. Smith and Frank R. Kschischang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.4108},
  year   = {2015}
}

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To appear in IEEE/OSA J. of Lightwave Technology

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