Coding for Optical Channels

In order to adapt to the ever-increasing demands for high-speed transmission and distance-independent connectivity, today's network operators are implementing 100 Gb/s per dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) channel. At those data rates, the performance of fiber-optic communication systems is degraded significantly due to intra-and inter-channel fiber nonlinearities, polarization-mode dispersion (PMD), and chromatic dispersion. In order to deal with these channel impairments, nove...