State-Complexity Reduction in MLSD Receivers for Direct-Detection Optical Communications

Konferenz: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication
16.09.2007- 20.09.2007 in Berlin, Germany

Tagungsband: ECOC 2007

Seiten: 2Sprache: EnglischTyp: PDF

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Autoren:
Franceschini, Michele; Ferrari, Gianluigi; Raheli, Riccardo (University of Parma)
Meli, Fausto; Castoldi, Andrea (Cisco Photonics, Monza, Italy)

Inhalt:
We investigate the impact of state complexity reduction techniques on the performance of MLSD-based EDC. Our results show that simple state reduction techniques guarantee a good trade-off between complexity and robustness against uncompensated chromatic dispersion.