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CA 2515280
An adaptive optical parallel equalizer architecture is based on a controllable optical FIR filter device to realize an optical FIR (finite-impulse-response) filter including a plurality of coefficient taps in order to have independent control of each optical FIR filter coefficient. A unique adaptive opto-electronic LMS (least mean square) process is utilized to generate an electronic error signal utilized to control the plurality of parallel tap coefficients of the optical parallel equalizer. The electronic error signal is used as the optimization criterion because the electronic signal after photo-detection is needed to achieve any measurable performance in terms of bit error rate (BER). In a specific embodiment, the controllable optical parallel FIR filter is realized by employing an optical vector modulator. The optical vector modulator is realized by splitting a supplied input optical signal into a plurality of parallel similar optical signals, controllably adjusting the phase and/or amplitude of each of the plurality of optical signals and delaying the resulting optical signals in a prescribed manner relative to one another. Then, the "delayed" signals are combined to yield the optical signal comprising the vector modulated input optical signal to be transmitted as an output. In one particular embodiment, both the phase and amplitude is adjusted of each of the plurality of parallel optical signals, and the error control signals for effecting the adjustments are generated in response to the optical FIR filter optical output signal utilizing the unique opto-electronic LMS process.
Chen Young-Kai
Koc Ut-Va
Leven Andreas Bertold
Kirby Eades Gale Baker
Lucent Technologies Inc.
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