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Experimental characterization of turbo-coded 20 Gbps fiber-wireless-fiber optical links

Experimental characterization of turbo-coded 20 Gbps fiber-wireless-fiber optical links
Experimental characterization of turbo-coded 20 Gbps fiber-wireless-fiber optical links
Fiber-wireless-Fiber links require alignment between the transmitter and receiver to a high degree of precision (typically ~0.01º for a link of a few meters), and channel coding can be used for mitigating the link margin reduction caused by the limited precision of the beam-steering and tracking system. This paper reports results from an experimental study of the misalignment tolerance attained by channel coding. Explicitly, the received power penalties imposed by misalignment are characterized, and then forward error correction techniques are adopted for mitigating the performance degradation inflicted, which is quantified experimentally. Our results characterize trade-offs between coding rate, decoding complexity and the degree of misalignment. Overall, an improvement of the tolerance to misalignment up to ~50% was attained for coded links compared with the uncoded counterpart.
Optical wireless communications, beam-steering, dynamic range, fiber-wireless-fiber, forward error correction, link misalignment, tracking
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Zhang, Xiaoyu
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Zhang, Xiaoyu, Singh, Ravinder, Farmer, James, Faulkner, Grahame, O'Brien, Dominic, Petropoulos, Periklis and Hanzo, Lajos (2021) Experimental characterization of turbo-coded 20 Gbps fiber-wireless-fiber optical links. IEEE Access, 9, 112726-112732, [9509027]. (doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3103317).

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Fiber-wireless-Fiber links require alignment between the transmitter and receiver to a high degree of precision (typically ~0.01º for a link of a few meters), and channel coding can be used for mitigating the link margin reduction caused by the limited precision of the beam-steering and tracking system. This paper reports results from an experimental study of the misalignment tolerance attained by channel coding. Explicitly, the received power penalties imposed by misalignment are characterized, and then forward error correction techniques are adopted for mitigating the performance degradation inflicted, which is quantified experimentally. Our results characterize trade-offs between coding rate, decoding complexity and the degree of misalignment. Overall, an improvement of the tolerance to misalignment up to ~50% was attained for coded links compared with the uncoded counterpart.

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Accepted/In Press date: 4 August 2021
e-pub ahead of print date: 9 August 2021
Published date: 2021
Additional Information: Funding Information: This work was supported in part by the U.K.’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council under Project EP/P034284/1, Project EP/P003990/1 (COALESCE), and Project EP/S002871/1, and in part by the EU H2020 Project Wireless Optical/Radio TErabit Communications (WORTECS) under Grant 761329. The work of Lajos Hanzo was supported in part by the Royal Society under Global Challenges Research Fund Grant, and in part by the European Research Council under Advanced Fellow Grant QuantCom (Grant No. 789028). Publisher Copyright: © 2013 IEEE.
Keywords: Optical wireless communications, beam-steering, dynamic range, fiber-wireless-fiber, forward error correction, link misalignment, tracking
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Local EPrints ID: 450890
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/450890
DOI: doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3103317
ISSN: 2169-3536
PURE UUID: 5fce59bb-bc58-46f3-b865-ae863127f217
ORCID for Xiaoyu Zhang: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0793-889X
ORCID for Periklis Petropoulos: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1576-8034
ORCID for Lajos Hanzo: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2636-5214

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Date deposited: 18 Aug 2021 16:33
Last modified: 15 Nov 2024 03:01

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Author: Xiaoyu Zhang ORCID iD
Author: Ravinder Singh
Author: James Farmer
Author: Grahame Faulkner
Author: Dominic O'Brien
Author: Periklis Petropoulos ORCID iD
Author: Lajos Hanzo ORCID iD

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