IP Library Granted Patent US 12,634,016
Granted Patent B2
US 12,634,016 · App. 18/039,125 · Granted May 19, 2026

Adaptive equalizer, step size derivation method and program

Inventors: Kengo Horikoshi (Musashino, JP); Seiji Okamoto (Musashino, JP); Masanori Nakamura (Musashino, JP)
Assignee: NTT, Inc.
H04B10/6162H04B10/6166H04J14/06
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Patent No.
US 12,634,016
App. No.
18/039,125
Granted
May 19, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

An adaptive equalizer includes an updating unit that updates a step size of a vector of a tap coefficient used for controlling an adaptive filter based on a time-series update vector in accordance with a time-series input and output of the adaptive filter that tracks a polarization state of an optical signal received by a coherent optical receiver. The updating unit updates the step size based on a DC gain of the update vector. The updating unit may update the step size for each update vector component based on a DC gain for each update vector component.

Claims (12)

1 . An adaptive equalizer comprising:

a processor; and

a storage medium having computer program instructions stored thereon, wherein the computer program instructions, when executed by the processor, perform processing of:

updating a step size of a vector of a tap coefficient used for controlling an adaptive filter based on a time-series update vector in accordance with a time-series input and output of the adaptive filter that tracks a polarization state of an optical signal received by a coherent optical receiver,

wherein the computer program instructions further perform processing of updating the step size based on a DC gain of the update vector.

2 . The adaptive equalizer according to claim 1 , wherein the computer program instructions further perform processing of:

deriving a DC gain of the update vector based on any one of a sum of the update vector components, a Euclidean norm of the update vector components, and an L2 norm of the update vector components.

3 . The adaptive equalizer according to claim 1 , wherein the computer program instructions further perform processing of updating the step size for each update vector component based on a DC gain for each update vector component.

4 . A step size derivation method executed by an adaptive equalizer, the method comprising the step of:

updating a step size of a vector of a tap coefficient used for controlling an adaptive filter based on a time-series update vector in accordance with a time-series input and output of the adaptive filter that tracks a polarization state of an optical signal received by a coherent optical receiver,

wherein the step of updating includes updating the step size based on a DC gain of the update vector.

5 . A non-transitory computer readable medium which stores a program for causing a computer to function as the adaptive equalizer according to claim 1 .

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 3, 2025
From: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
To: NTT, INC.
Reel/Frame 073007/0214 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 26, 2023
From: HORIKOSHI, KENGO; OKAMOTO, SEIJI; NAKAMURA, MASANORI
To: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 063775/0977 →
Continuity (1)
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