Abstract
Low-density parity-check (LDPC) coded optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is shown to significantly outperform LDPC coded on-off keying (OOK) over the atmospheric turbulence channel in terms of both coding gain and spectral efficiency. In the regime of strong turbulence at a bit-error rate of 10-5, the coding gain improvement of the LDPC coded single-side band unclipped-OFDM system with 64 sub-carriers is larger than the coding gain of the LDPC coded OOK system by 20.2dB for quadrature-phase-shift keying (QPSK) and by 23.4dB for binary-phase-shift keying (BPSK).
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 6336-6350 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Optics Express |
Volume | 15 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 14 2007 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics