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45 Gb/s low complexity optical front-end for soft-decision LDPC decoders.

Meer Nazmus Sakib1, Monireh Moayedi, Warren J Gross

  • 1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2A7, Canada. meer.sakib@mail.mcgill.ca

Optics Express
|October 6, 2012
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This study presents a low-complexity, energy-efficient optical front-end for soft-decision low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoders, achieving significant coding gains. The system also functions as a 2-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC), offering substantial optical power savings.

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