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Asia Communications and Photonics Conference

Adaptive Kalman Filter for Extreme Polarization Effects Equalization in Coherent Optical Communication System

Liyuan Qiu, Zibo Zheng, Xiaoguang Zhang, Nan Cui, Lixia Xi, Wenbo Zhang

Published Oct 1, 2018• 1 citation
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Abstract

This paper proposes an adaptive initialization way of estimating noise statistics for the Kalman filter, with which the extreme polarization impairments of PDM-QPSK signals in fiber can be equalized in a better robust manner.
DOI
10.1109/acp.2018.8595793

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