OPTICAL TRELLIS-CODED MODULATION ( OTCM )
23 February 2004
In a new transmission format the output of a 10 Gb/s convolutional FEC encoder is directly mapped on an optical 10 Gbaud DQPSK signal. Versus 10 Gb/s DPSK, 4.5 dB OSNR gain is predicted without any increase of bandwidth.