Adaptive equalizer, optical receiver, and adaptive equalization method

1. An adaptive equalizer, comprising:

a sample buffer; and

a processor coupled to the sample buffer and configured to:

perform an adaptive equalization on data which has been fractionally sampled at a sampling rate higher than once a symbol rate and lower than twice the symbol rate,

determine an initial value of a tap coefficient of the adaptive equalizer by using a training sequence inserted in the data,

shift, by a predetermined shift amount, a sample point of one pattern from among two consecutive patterns included in the training sequence,

specify a position of the training sequence in the data by replacing an original sample value with a sample value at the shifted sample point, and

update the initial value of the tap coefficient based on the specified training sequence.

2. The adaptive equalizer according to claim 1 , wherein

the predetermined shift amount is uniquely defined by the sampling rate and a symbol length of the one pattern.

3. The adaptive equalizer according to claim 2 , wherein

the predetermined shift amount is zero when a product of the sampling rate and the symbol length is an integer.

4. The adaptive equalizer according to claim 1 , wherein

the sample buffer that sequentially stores the data that has been fractionally sampled; and

the processor is configured to:

read sample data in a predetermined range while a selection position for the buffer is moved by one sample at a time, and

determine, as a start position of the training sequence, a buffer selection position that maximizes a correlation value between the two consecutive patterns.

5. The adaptive equalizer according to claim 1 , wherein

the sample buffer that sequentially stores the data that has been fractionally sampled; and

the processor is configured to:

when the sampling rate is f and the symbol length of the one pattern is T, calculate a correlation value between a first sample set that contains (f×T) pieces and a second sample set that contains (f×T) pieces and is subsequent to the first sample set, and

determine a buffer selection position when the correlation value is maximized, as a start position of the training sequence, based on a sample value after the phase shift.

6. The adaptive equalizer according to claim 1 , wherein

the training sequence includes m (m is a natural number) pattern pairs, each pattern pair has two same code patterns, and different pattern pairs have different code patterns.

7. An optical receiver comprising:

an optoelectric conversion circuit that converts an optical signal received through a transmission line into an analog electrical signal;

an analog-to-digital converter that fractionally samples the analog electrical signal at the sampling rate; and

the adaptive equalizer according to claim 1 , wherein the adaptive equalizer carrying out adaptive equalization on the data that has been fractionally sampled.

8. An adaptive equalization method executed by an adaptive equalizer comprising:

performing an adaptive equalization on data which has been fractionally sampled at a sampling rate higher than once a symbol rate and lower than twice the symbol rate;

determining an initial value of a tap coefficient of the adaptive equalizer by using a training sequence inserted in the data;

shifting, by a predetermined shift amount, a sample point of one pattern from among two consecutive patterns included in the training sequence;

specifying a position of the training sequence in the data by replacing an original sample value with a sample value at the shifted sample point; and

updating the initial value of the tap coefficient based on the specified training sequence.