Published July 7, 2017 | Version v1
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Real-Time Demonstration of Low-Complexity Time-Domain Chromatic Dispersion Equalization

  • 1. Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, University of Aveiro and Instituto de Telecomunicações, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal
  • 2. Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24,10129 Torino, Italy

Description

We demonstrate real-time CD equalization (CDE) for coherent optical transmission systems using a low complexity
time-domain (TD) multiplierless finite-impulse response (FIR)-based equalizer, based on a field-programmable gate
array (FPGA) implementation. The real-time operation is performed for a single-channel 2.5 Gb/s QPSK optical
signal with a performance penalty of only 0.15 dB with respect to the maximum performance. The hardware
complexity is also evaluated in terms of occupation in a Virtex-6 FPGA-XC6VLX240T, revealing the high efficiency
of the proposed CDE algorithm.

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Funding

Flex-ON – Flexible Optical Networks – Time Domain Hybrid QAM: DSP and Physical Layer Modelling 653412
European Commission