ZHANG Jianyong, is an Associate professor with the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University. His current research interests include nonlinear optical channel, channeJ coding, and information theory. Email: jyzhang@bjtu. edu.cn. Dr. Ivan B. Djordjevic, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of College of Engineering of University of Arizona, with a joint appointment in the College of Optical Sciences. His current research interests include optical networks, FEC, coded modulation, OFDM, and quantum error correction. Dr. Djordjevic is an author/ co-author of over 300 journal and conference pub- lications, 4 books and 13 US patents. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters. Email: Ivan@email.arizona.edu.