Novel MSE adaptive control of optical PMD compensators

Author

Forestieri, Enrico ; Colavolpe, Giulio ; Prati, Giancarlo

Author_Institution

Photonic Networks Nat. Lab., Scuola Superiore Sant´´Anna & CNIT, Pisa, Italy

Volume

20

Issue

12

fYear

2002

fDate

12/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1997

Lastpage

2003

Abstract

We describe a new effective technique for the adaptive adjustment of the control parameters of any structure of polarization-mode dispersion compensator, such as, e.g., those based on a cascade of polarization controllers and polarization-maintaining fibers. This technique is based on the mean square error between the photodetected signal and the decided symbol and allows us to obtain fast convergence and a lower outage probability with a very limited complexity.

Keywords

adaptive control; adaptive equalisers; adaptive optics; error compensation; error statistics; mean square error methods; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; photodetectors; MSE adaptive control; adaptive adjustment; control parameters; decided symbol; fast convergence; lower outage probability; mean square error; optical PMD compensators; photodetected signal; polarization controllers; polarization-maintaining fibers; polarization-mode dispersion compensator; very limited complexity; Adaptive control; Adaptive optics; Bit error rate; Nonlinear optics; Optical control; Optical devices; Optical distortion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical network units;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2003.807963

Filename

1178131