TR2015-110

Laser Frequency Drift Compensation with Han-Kobayashi Coding in Superchannel Nonlinear Optical Communications

    •  Koike-Akino, T., Millar, D.S., Kojima, K., Parsons, K., "Laser Frequency Drift Compensation with Han-Kobayashi Coding in Superchannel Nonlinear Optical Communications", European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), DOI: 10.1109/​ECOC.2015.7341865, September 2015, pp. 1-3.
      BibTeX TR2015-110 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Koike-Akino2015sep,
      • author = {Koike-Akino, T. and Millar, D.S. and Kojima, K. and Parsons, K.},
      • title = {Laser Frequency Drift Compensation with Han-Kobayashi Coding in Superchannel Nonlinear Optical Communications},
      • booktitle = {European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC)},
      • year = 2015,
      • pages = {1--3},
      • month = sep,
      • doi = {10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341865},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2015-110}
      • }
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    Communications, Signal Processing

Abstract:

We investigate the impact of laser frequency drift, which can cause inter-channel interference (ICI) in superchannel communications. We show that Han-Kobayashi coding significantly improves robustness against the drift, achieving 2-times higher achievable rate than conventional coding.