On turbo code decoder performance in optical-fiber communication systems with dominating ase noise

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 727-734

  Cai, Yi ^a   Morris, Joel M ^a   Adali, Tülay ^a   Menyuk, Curtis R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplified spontaneous emission noise; Forward error correction; MAP decoding; Optical fiber communication

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECODING; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); OPTICAL FIBERS; PROBABILITY; TURBO CODES;

TURBO CODE DECODERS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0038631831     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.809543     Document Type: Conference Paper

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