Performance of MSE configured PLC optical equalizers for chromatic dispersion compensation

Author

Secondini, M. ; Forestieri, E. ; Prati, G.

Author_Institution

Scuola Superiore, Pisa, Italy

Volume

15

Issue

2

fYear

2003

Firstpage

248

Lastpage

250

Abstract

In this letter, we propose a mean square error (MSE) strategy to control a planar lightwave circuit (PLC) optical equalizer. We show by simulation that MSE is a suitable criterion to exploit the PLC programmability for realizing an adaptive optical equalizer. When controlled through the MSE criterion, a PLC equalizer for chromatic dispersion compensation performs better than with other control strategies and turns out to be effective even with few component elements.

Keywords

adaptive equalisers; compensation; mean square error methods; optical control; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical planar waveguides; MSE configured PLC optical equalizers; PLC programmability; adaptive optical equalizer; chromatic dispersion compensation; control strategies; mean square error strategy; optical fiber dispersion; planar lightwave circuit optical equalizer; Chromatic dispersion; Equalizers; Optical control; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical filters; Optical network units; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Optical transmitters; Programmable control;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2002.806108

Filename

1174135