Journal of Applied Sciences1812-56541812-5662Asian Network for Scientific Information10.3923/jas.2008.1796.1797BalamuralitharaB. 9200889In this study, a novel serial concatenated coding scheme (Block Turbo Codes-BTC)-Forward Error Correction (FEC) codes-to mitigate error in high speed (>10 GHz) fiber optic communication is proposed and analyzed through simulation results. With combination of Reed Solomon and Reed Muller component codes-RS (255,223)+RM(1,5) outperform ITU-T G.975 RS (255.239) FEC recommendation with coding gain 1.95-2.00 dB.]]>Agrawal, G.P., 19972nd Edn.,Dumer, I. and R. Krichchevskiy, 200046258264Roman, S., 19921st Edn.,pp: 512pp: 512Sab, O.A. and V. Lemaire, 20003280282Wu, J., S. Lin, T. Kasami, W. Fujiwara and T. Takata,199442813818