First Experimental Verification of Improved Decoding of Staircase Codes using Marked Bits
Bin Chen, Yi Lei, Sjoerd van der Heide, John van Weerdenburg, Alex Alvarado, Chigo M. Okonkwo · 2019
Experimental validation for improved staircase decoding via marked bits is shown for the first time. Using a single-span hybrid-amplified recirculating loop experiment, we demonstrate reach increases of up to 240 km.