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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2010
Andrew Deczky, Ottawa, CA;
Mark Edward Rollins, Stittsville, CA;
Christian Bourget, Stittsville, CA;
Andrew Deczky, Ottawa, CA;
Mark Edward Rollins, Stittsville, CA;
Christian Bourget, Stittsville, CA;
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to coherent optical receiver systems and methods for determining and correcting for optical angle and magnitude imbalance and for delay imbalance between quadrature paths. The present invention iteratively determines and corrects imbalance error and differential delay entirely in the digital domain (after an analog to digital conversion) in the presence of all the other impairments (polarization mode dispersion, chromatic dispersion, polarization gain imbalance, and polarization delay imbalance) using only the corrupted received signal during normal operation, i.e. without the use of training data. The present invention provides an effective adaptive scheme to drive impairments to zero, without using of any calibration of training, and may be applied during normal operation of the receiver via electrical circuitry or the like.