Distributed Transmission and Spatially Coupled Forward Error Correction in Regenerative Multipoint-to-Point Networks

We investigate the performance of coded modulation for multi-hop regenerative optical networks. We analyze options for computing decoder input LLRs, show reach increases by optimized regenerator placement and experimentally compare strategies and guidelines for distributed FEC.

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