Evaluation of left-terminated spatially coupled LDPC codes for optical communications

We analyze the performance of different left-terminated, infinitely extended spatially coupled LDPC codes for optical communications using an FPGA-based emulator. We find codes that are able to realize conjectured net coding gains of more than 12.1 dB.

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