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First experimental verification of improved decoding of staircase codes using marked bits

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Abstract

Experimental validation for improved staircase decoding via marked bits is shown for the first time. Using a single-span hybrid-amplified recirculating loop experiment, we demonstrate reach increases of up to 240 km.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, OFC 2019 - Proceedings
Place of PublicationPiscataway
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781943580538
ISBN (Print)9781943580538
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Apr 2019
Event2019 Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC 2019) - San Diego, United States
Duration: 3 Mar 20197 Mar 2019
https://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/

Conference

Conference2019 Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC 2019)
Abbreviated titleOFC 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego
Period3/03/197/03/19
Internet address

Funding

Acknowledgements: The work of A. Alvarado is supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) via the VIDI Grant ICONIC (project number 15685) and has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 57791). Yi Lei would like to thank China Scholarship Council (CSC) for supporting her study in Netherlands. The work of S. van der Heide, J. van Weerdenburg and C. Okonkwo is supported by Dutch NWO Programmes for Photonics under GA no. 022.005.011 and 024.002.033 References 1. B. P. Smith, A. Farhood, A. Hunt, F. R. Kschischang, and J. Lodge, “Staircase codes: FEC for 100 Gb/s OTN,” J. Lightw. Technol. 30, 110–117 (2012). 2. ITU-T Study Group 15, Forward error correction for high bit-rate DWDM submarine systems, Telecommunication Standardization Sector of ITU, 2004 3. Optical Internetworking Forum, “Implementation Agreement 400ZR,” OIF 400G ZR, Jan. 2018. 4. B. P. Smith, “Error-correcting codes for fibre-optic communication systems,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto, 2011. 5. C. Häger and H. D. Pfister, “Miscorrection-free decoding of staircase codes,” in European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), Gothenburg, Sweden, 2017. 6. A. Sheikh, A. Graell i Amat, and G. SLiva, “Iterative bounded distance decoding of product codes with scaled reliability,” in European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), Rome, Italy, 2018. 7. Y. Lei, A. Alvarado, B. Chen, X. Deng, Z. Cao, J. Li, and K. Xu “Staircase Codes Decoding with Marked Bits,” in International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Iterative Information Processing (ISTC), Hong Kong, China, 2018. 8. N. Stojanovic, Y. Zhao, D. Chang, Z. Xiao, and F. Yu, “ Reusing Common Uncoded Experimental Data in Performance Estimation of Different FEC Codes,” IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett. 24, 2494-2497 (2013).

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