Circuit Implementation of Pilot-Based Dynamic MIMO Equalization for Coupled-Core Fibers
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Borjeson, Erik; Deriushkina, Ekaterina; Mazur, Mikael; Karlsson, Magnus; Larsson-Edefors, Per
- Source
- 2024 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2024. :1-3 Mar, 2024
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical fibers
Analytical models
Equalizers
Market research
Optical fiber communication
Complexity theory
Optical fiber filters
- Language
We explore ASIC implementation for pilot-based MIMO equalizers for coupled-core transmission, considering chip area scaling trends and performance impact of time-dependent drift. For a system with 28-GBd subcarriers, an equalizer for 8 × 8 is 5.3 times larger than for 2 × 2.