Adaptive Compensation of Bandwidth Narrowing Effect for Coherent In-Phase Quadrature Transponder through Finite Impulse Response Filter

Abstract

Coherent in-phase quadrature (IQ) transponders are ubiquitous in the long-haul and the metro optical networks. During the transmission, the coherent signal experiences a bandwidth narrowing effect after passing through multiple reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers (ROADMs). The coherent signal also experiences a bandwidth narrowing effect when electrical or optical components of the coherent IQ transponder experience aging. A dynamic method to compensate the bandwidth narrowing effect is thus required. In the coherent optical receiver, signal bandwidth is estimated from the raw analog-to-digital converter (ADC) outputs. By adaptively adjusting the tap coefficients of the finite impulse response (FIR) filter, simple post-ADC FIR filters can increase the resiliency of the coherent signal to the bandwidth narrowing effect. The influence of chromatic dispersion, polarization mode dispersion, and polarization dependent loss are studied comprehensively. Furthermore, the bandwidth information of the transmitted analog signal is fed back to the coherent optical transmitter for signal optimization, and the transmitter-side FIR filter thus changes accordingly.