IP Library Granted Patent US 9,654,314
Granted Patent B2
US 9,654,314 · App. 14/844,909 · Granted May 16, 2017

Joint transmitter and receiver map algorithm for enhancing filtering tolerance in a bandwidth-limited system

Inventors: Fatih Yaman (Monmouth Junction, NJ); Shaoliang Zhang (Princeton, NJ); Yue-Kai Huang (Princeton, NJ)
Assignee: NEC Corporation
H04L25/03859H04B10/58H04B10/616H04L25/03171H04L25/03343
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Patent No.
US 9,654,314
App. No.
14/844,909
Granted
May 16, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A system for optimizing signal quality in an optical communication system is provided including a transmitter for converting digital signals to optical signals, the transmitter including a transmitter digital signal processing chip including a pre-distortion logic and a transmitter look-up table (LUT). A receiver is operatively coupled to the transmitter for receiving and converting the optical signals from the transmitter to digital signals. The receiver includes a receiver digital signal processing chip including a correction logic and a receiver look-up table (LUT). The transmitter LUT is constructed by scaling the receiver LUT by a weight factor and is iteratively updated based on a weighted sum of the receiver LUT.

Claims (32)

1. A system for optimizing signal quality in an optical communication system, comprising:

a transmitter for converting digital signals to optical signals comprising a transmitter digital signal processing chip including a pre-distortion logic and a transmitter look-up table (LUT); and

a receiver operatively coupled to the transmitter for receiving and converting the optical signals from the transmitter to digital signals, the receiver comprising a receiver digital signal processing chip including a correction logic and a receiver look-up table (LUT),

wherein the transmitter LUT is constructed by scaling the receiver LUT by a weight factor and is iteratively updated based on a weighted sum of the receiver LUT.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the pre-distortion logic applies maximum a posterior (MAP) based pre-distortion on the digital signals at the transmitter based on the updated transmitter LUT, until a threshold is met.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the threshold comprises a desired level of signal quality.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the correction logic applies a MAP based correction on the digital signals to further improve the signal quality.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the weight factor comprises a scaling factor for refining operation of the transmitter pre-distortion logic.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the transmitter digital signal processing chip is operatively coupled to transmitter front ends comprising at least a modulator, drivers, and a laser for providing light to be processed by the transmitter for providing optical signals to the receiver.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the receiver digital signal processing chip is operatively coupled to receiver front ends comprising at least an integrated coherent receiver and a laser.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the receiver LUT is operatively coupled to the transmitter to update the transmitter LUT.

9. A receiver for mitigating signal distortion in an optical communication system comprising:

receiver front ends for receiving an optical signal;

a receiver digital signal processing chip (DSP) operatively connected to the receiver front ends, the receiver DSP including a correction logic and a receiver look-up table (LUT),

wherein the correction logic compares received optical signals with the transmitted optical signals to determine and apply a maximum a posterior (MAP) based correction, and wherein the receiver LUT is scaled by a weight factor;

further comprising a transmitter operatively coupled to the receiver, the transmitter comprising a transmitter digital signal processing chip including a pre-distortion logic and a transmitter look-up table (LUT);

wherein a weighted sum of the receiver LUT is used to construct and iteratively update the transmitter LUT.

10. The receiver of claim 9 , wherein the pre-distortion logic applies MAP based pre-distortion on digital signals at the transmitter based on the updated transmitter LUT, until a threshold is met.

11. A method for optimizing signal quality in an optical communication system comprising the steps of:

applying maximum a posterior (MAP) based pre-distortion on digital signals at a transmitter, based on a transmitter look-up table (LUT);

processing and up-converting the digital signals to comprise optical signals;

processing the optical signals at a receiver to comprise digital signals;

applying MAP based correction to the digital signals at the receiver based on a receiver LUT, wherein the transmitter LUT is built up and updated based on the receiver LUT; wherein the step of applying MAP based pre-distortion is performed until a threshold is met.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the threshold comprises a desired level of signal quality.

13. The method of claim 11 , wherein the receiver LUT is provided by:

creating an initial receiver LUT from received signals passing through the transmitter without any applied pre-distortion;

comparing the received signals with the transmitted signals to determine a MAP based correction on a center symbol of a transmitted pattern; and

scaling the receiver LUT by a weight factor based on the MAP based correction.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the weight factor comprises a scaling factor for refining operation of the transmitter MAP based pre-distortion.

15. The method of claim 11 , wherein the receiver LUT is operatively coupled to the transmitter to iteratively update the transmitter LUT.

16. The method of claim 11 , wherein the step of processing the digital signals includes performing pulse shaping and pre-equalization.

17. The method of claim 11 , wherein the step of processing the optical signals comprises down converting the optical signals into baseband signals.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 29, 2017
From: NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA, INC.
To: NEC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 041779/0828 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 3, 2015
From: YAMAN, FATIH; ZHANG, SHAOLIANG; HUANG, YUE-KAI
To: NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA, INC.
Reel/Frame 036490/0882 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62063018 · Oct 13, 2014
Related Publication 20160105297A1 · Apr 14, 2016