Abstract
Staircase codes, a new class of forward-error-correction (FEC) codes suitable for
high-speed optical communications, are introduced. An ITU-T G.709-compatible staircase
code with rate <i>R</i>=239/255 is proposed, and field-programmable-gate-array-based
simulation results are presented, exhibiting a net coding gain of 9.41 dB at an output
error rate of 10<sup>-15</sup>, an improvement of 0.42 dB relative to the best code from the
ITU-T G.975.1 recommendation. An error floor analysis technique is presented, and the
proposed code is shown to have an error floor at 4.0 × 10<sup>-21</sup>.
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