Multilevel Coding with Spatially-Coupled Codes for beyond 400Gbps Optical Transmission
Yohei Koganei, Tomofumi Oyama, Kiichi Sugitani, Hisao Nakashima, Takeshi Hoshida · Optical Fiber Communication Conference · 2018
We propose a multilevel coding technique inheriting the performance of spatially-coupled codes. Net coding gains of 12.5, 13.2 and 13.7dB are expected for 16, 64 and 256QAM with low implementation complexity.