On Achievable Information Rates for Coherent Fiber-Optic Systems with Hard Decision Decoding

• We analyze achievable information rates (AIRs) for coherent fiber-optic systems with hard decision decoding and show that binary codes achieve higher rates than nonbinary codes, which translates into larger transmission reach. This result is confirmed by simulation of staircase codes.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Kommunikationssystem (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Communication Systems (hsv//eng)

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