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Channel Coding for Optical Communications

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Optical Communication Theory and Techniques

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Channel coding is a fundamental tool to improve performance in most of the digital transmission systems. By yielding the same performance with a significant saving in the transmitted power (the coding gain), channel coding helps increasing capacity in cellular systems, repeater spacing in terrestrial links, reducing the antenna size in deep-space communications, etc. It is now widely used also in optical communication, which, however, poses severe and peculiar challenges to the code design and implementation. The aim of this tutorial paper is to frame channel coding in optical systems by describing currently used coding schemes and strong future candidates promising higher coding gains. A rich annotated bibliography concludes the paper.

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Benedetto, S., Bosco, G. (2005). Channel Coding for Optical Communications. In: Forestieri, E. (eds) Optical Communication Theory and Techniques. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23136-6_8

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