Abstract
Advanced electronic signal processing for high-bit-rate lightwave systems has become available recently. Adaptive receiver concepts are proposed to mitigate dynamic changes in the optical channel response. In particular, two different approaches are under discussion: independent equalization and decoding, e.g., by maximum-likelihood sequence estimation followed by a separate error-correction decoder, and a combined approach by iterative decoding of the channel correlations and the error-correction code. The authors compare the two concepts with respect to their mitigation capabilities in the presence of polarization mode dispersion. Special attention is paid to hardware implementation aspects, since the application of the concepts is severely limited by memory and signal processing requirements.
© 2006 IEEE
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