Abstract
We consider the rate/distance tradeoff for LDPC-coded OOK systems under soft-decision iterative decoding. Below 6000 km, EXIT-chart optimized irregular LDPC codes outperform systems that use a nonlinearity-reducing constrained inner code.
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