Improved FEC Code Based on Concatenated Code for Optical Transmission Systems

The improved three novel schemes of the super forward error correction （super-FEC） concatenated codes are proposed after the development trend of long-haul optical transmission systems and the defects of the existing FEC codes have been analyzed. The performance simulation of the Reed-Solomon（RS）＋ Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocguenghem（BCH） inner-outer serial concatenated code is implemented and the conceptions of encoding/decoding the parallel-concatenated code are presented. Furthermore, the simulation results for the RS（255,239） ＋RS（255,239） code and the RS（255,239） ＋RS（255,223） code show that the two consecutive concatenated codes are a superior coding scheme with such advantages as the better error correction, moderate redundancy and easy realization compared to the classic RS（255,239） code and other codes, and their signal to noise ratio gains are respectively 2-3 dB more than that of the RS（255,239）code at the bit error rate of 1 × 10^-13. Finally, the frame structure of the novel consecutive concatenated code is arranged to lay a firm foundation in designing its hardware.