Abstract
Soft-decoding of a PDM-QPSK signal with 34%-FEC overhead – enabled by a symbol rate increase from 28 to 35 Gbaud – leads to 10.7-dB OSNR sensitivity. Soft-decoding is not effective for POL-QAM 6-4 modulation.
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