Information Rates and post-FEC BER Prediction in Optical Fiber Communications

Alex Alvarado

doi:10.1364/OFC.2017.Th3F.3

Information Rates and post-FEC BER Prediction in Optical Fiber Communications

Information Theory 2020-06-05 v1 math.IT

Authors: Alex Alvarado

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Abstract

Information-theoretic metrics to analyze optical fiber communications systems with binary and nonbinary soft-decision FEC are reviewed. The numerical evaluation of these metrics in both simulations and experiments is also discussed. Ready-to-use closed-form approximations are presented.

Keywords

optical fiber communications information rates post-FEC BER prediction soft-decision FEC information-theoretic metrics closed-form approximations

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@article{arxiv.1611.09738,
  title  = {Information Rates and post-FEC BER Prediction in Optical Fiber Communications},
  author = {Alex Alvarado},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.09738},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Invited paper, OFC 2017

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