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Adaptive Electronic Feed-Forward Equaliser and Decision Feedback Equaliser for the Mitigation of Chromatic Dispersion and PMD in 43 Gbit/s Optical Transmission Systems

24 September 2006

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An automatically adapted 43Gbit/s receiver comprising a 5-tap feed-forward and a novel 1-tap decision-feedback equaliser (FFE/DFE) has been applied to mitigate chromatic dispersion and PMD. The 43Gbit/s system tolerance enhancement obtained by FFE/DFE is evaluated.