title: Channel coding for polarization-mode dispersion limited optical fiber transmission.
abstract: We investigate numerically the usefulness of Turbo and Reed-Solomon coding in the presence of Polarization-Mode Dispersion (PMD) using computer simulations. It is demonstrated that for a fixed level of PMD and a fixed data-rate, there is an optimal code overhead. This is in contrast to the case of negligible PMD, where high overhead codes perform best.
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Puzio
authors.forename: Zhenyu
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Rick
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Blum
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Andrekson
authors.forename: Tiffany
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Hamid
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sadjadpour