Coding for Optical Communications -- Can We Approach the Shannon Limit With Low Complexity?

TL;DR

This paper reviews three promising coding solutions aimed at achieving near-Shannon limit capacity in optical communications with low complexity, addressing a key challenge for future high-throughput systems.

Contribution

It compares and analyzes three coding methods suitable for low-complexity, high-capacity optical communication systems, highlighting their potential to approach Shannon limit performance.

Findings

Identifies three promising coding schemes for optical communications.

Highlights the potential of these codes to approach Shannon capacity.

Provides a comparative analysis of the coding solutions' complexity and performance.

Abstract

Approaching capacity with low complexity is a very challenging task. In this paper, we review and compare three promising coding solutions to achieve that, which are suitable for future very high-throughput, low-complexity optical communications.