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Coding for Optical Channels

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We live in a time officially proclaimed as the information era, which is closely related to Internet technology and characterized by never-ending demands for higher information capacity [1]. Optical transmission links are established around the globe, and the optical fiber connection extends from the global backbone to access networks, all the way down to the curb, building, home, and desk [1–9]. Despite of the Internet “bubble” occurred in the early 2000s, the Internet traffic has been growing at astonishing rate ranging from 75 to 125% per year [6]. Given the recent growth of Internet usage, IPTV, and VoIP, it has become clear that current 10-Gb/s Ethernet rate is insufficient to satisfy the bandwidth demands in near future. For example, Internet2 has announced 2 years ago a capacity upgrade of its next-generation IP network from 10 Gb/s to 100 Gb/s [7]. According to some industry experts, 100-Gb/s transmission is needed by the end of 2009, while 1 Tb/s should be standardized by the year 2012–2013 [7].

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The Q-factor is defined as Q = (μ1 − μ0) ∕ (σ1 + σ0), where μ j and σ j (j = 0, 1) represent the mean and the standard deviation corresponding to the bits j = 0, 1.

  2. 2.

    The girth represents the shortest cycle in corresponding bipartite graph representation of a parity-check matrix.

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    Ivan Djordjevic, William Ryan & Bane Vasic

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Djordjevic, I., Ryan, W., Vasic, B. (2010). Introduction. In: Coding for Optical Channels. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5569-2_1

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