Abstract
We report the first implementation of a digital equalizer using 16-states Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation (MLSE). We show measured performance improvements versus a 4-states MLSE, for un-chirped NRZ and for Optical Duobinary (ODB) modulation formats.
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