Inphi Corporation

Marvell Asia Pte., Ltd.

José Correa

Oscar Ernesto Agazzi

Mario Rafael Hueda

A coherent optical receiver includes equalizer circuitry having a plurality of taps, the equalizer circuitry being configured to receive an input signal and compensate for polarization mode dispersion affecting the input signal to generate a compensated input signal. The coherent optical receiver further includes error evaluation circuitry configured to calculate a determinant of a frequency-domain (FD) coefficient-based matrix using a plurality of tap signals from among the plurality of taps, adjust an error of convergence of the compensated input signal to generate an adjusted input signal, and iteratively adjust the determinant of the FD coefficient-based matrix based on the adjusted input signal to minimize the error of convergence.

Tap centerer method and structure for coherent optical receiver

A method and structure for tap centering in a coherent optical receiver device. The center of gravity (CG) of the filter coefficients can be used to evaluate a proper convergence of a time-domain adaptive equalizer. However, the computation of CG in a dual-polarization optical coherent receiver is difficult when a frequency domain (FD) adaptive equalizer is adopted. In this case, the implementation of several inverse fast-Fourier transform (IFFT) stages is required to back time domain impulse response. Here, examples of the present invention estimate CG directly from the FD equalizer taps and compensate for an error of convergence based off of the estimated CG. This estimation method and associated device architecture is able to achieve an excellent tradeoff between accuracy and complexity.

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José Correa