• DocumentCode
    510681
  • Title

    A scalable and hardware-efficient architecture for digitally adaptive electronic dispersion compensation

  • Author

    Efinger, Daniel ; Payer, Stefan ; Fischer, Halmo

  • Author_Institution
    Institute of Telecommunications, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 47, D-70569, Germany
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    2-6 Nov. 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We present a novel hardware architecture for digitally adaptive feed-forward equalization (FFE) on a Virtex-II FPGA and show its performance in a time-varying IM/DD optical link. Our solution can be scaled to various bit rates and our digital adaptation unit is able to track time-varying channels well within 1ms.
  • Keywords
    Bit rate; Consumer electronics; Decision feedback equalizers; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Maximum likelihood estimation; OFDM; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Polarization mode dispersion;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), 2009 Asia
  • Conference_Location
    Shanghai, China
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-877-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-877-3
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5377347