Recent progress in forward error correction (FEC) for optical communications is reviewed.
The various types of FEC are classified as belonging to one of three generations. A third …

The first book to provide comprehensive coverage of FACTS power systems modeling and
simulation.* Detailed coverage of the development of FACTS controllers and guidance on …

With wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) rapidly nearing its scalability limits, space-
division multiplexing (SDM) seems the only option to further scale the capacity of optical …

Publisher Summary This chapter provides a taxonomy of optical modulation formats along
with experimental techniques for realizing them. High-speed optical transmission systems …

Fiber-optic communication systems have revolutionized our telecommunication
infrastructures–currently, almost all telephone land-line, cellular, and internet …

We review recent research related to polarization mode dispersion (PMD) in fiber-optic
transmission systems operating at 40 Gb/s and above. We investigate the benefits of using …

Soft-decision-based forward error correction (FEC) and its practical implementation for 100
Gb/s transport systems are discussed. In applying soft-decision FEC to a digital coherent …

The history of forward error correction in optical communications is reviewed. The various
types of FEC are classified as belonging to three generations. The first generation FEC …

Polarization-related impairments have become a critical issue for high-data-rate optical
systems, particularly when considering polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) and …

We study the performance of a novel multichannel polarization-mode dispersion (PMD)
mitigation scheme in which forward error correction is utilized with distributed fast …