Title :
Adaptation of electronic PMD equaliser based on BER estimation derived from FEC decoder
Author :
Sticht, K. ; Haunstein, H.F. ; Lorang, M. ; Sauer-Greff, W. ; Urbansky, R.
Author_Institution :
Lucent Technol. Network Syst. GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany
Abstract :
The paper proposes the adaptation of a receiver with decision feedback loop and sampling phase adjustment by use of FEC-derived bit error ratios. Near optimum PMD performance results for a fibre channel at 10 Gbit/s are presented.
Keywords :
adaptive equalisers; decision feedback equalisers; decoding; error statistics; forward error correction; optical fibre communication; optical receivers; 10 Gbit/s; BER estimation; BER-based adaptive DFE; FEC decoder; FEC-derived bit error ratios; PMD performance; decision feedback loop; electronic PMD equaliser; fibre channel; polarization mode dispersion; receiver; sampling phase adjustment; Adaptive equalizers; Bit error rate; Decision feedback equalizers; Decoding; Fiber nonlinear optics; Forward error correction; Maximum likelihood estimation; Optical feedback; Optical noise; Optical receivers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6705-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2001.989712
