title: Time-domain digital pre-equalization for band-limited signals based on receiver-side adaptive equalizers.
abstract: We theoretically and experimentally investigate a time-domain digital pre-equalization (DPEQ) scheme for bandwidth-limited optical coherent communication systems, which is based on feedback of channel characteristics from the receiver-side blind and adaptive equalizers, such as least-mean-squares (LMS) algorithm and constant or multi- modulus algorithms (CMA, MMA). Based on the proposed DPEQ scheme, we theoretically and experimentally study its performance in terms of various channel conditions as well as resolutions for channel estimation, such as filtering bandwidth, taps length, and OSNR. Using a high speed 64-GSa/s DAC in cooperation with the proposed DPEQ technique, we successfully synthesized band-limited 40-Gbaud signals in modulation formats of polarization-diversion multiplexed (PDM) quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK), 8-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) and 16-QAM, and significant improvement in both back-to-back and transmission BER performances are also demonstrated.
authors.forename: Junwen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jianjun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Nan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Chi
authors.forename: Hung-Chang
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Chien