• DocumentCode
    2537955
  • Title

    Quadrature imbalance compensation algorithms for coherent PDM QPSK systems

  • Author

    Petrou, C.S. ; Vgenis, A. ; Roudas, I. ; Raptis, L.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Patras, Rio, Greece
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    4-8 Oct. 2009
  • Firstpage
    642
  • Lastpage
    643
  • Abstract
    We compare three quadrature imbalance compensation algorithms for coherent PDM-QPSK systems, including a novel, blind, adaptive equalizer. We show that dedicated quadrature imbalance compensation is mandatory and cannot be performed by regular distortion mitigating equalizers.
  • Keywords
    adaptive equalisers; blind equalisers; compensation; quadrature phase shift keying; adaptive equalizer; blind equalizer; coherent PDM QPSK systems; polarization division multiplexed; quadrature imbalance compensation; regular distortion mitigating equalizers; Adaptive equalizers; Application specific integrated circuits; Optical distortion; Optical filters; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Phase estimation; Photoconductivity; Quadrature phase shift keying; Signal processing algorithms;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, 2009. LEOS '09. IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Belek-Antalya
  • ISSN
    1092-8081
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3680-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1092-8081
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343407
  • Filename
    5343407