Study of Efficient Photonic Chromatic Dispersion Equalization Using MZI-Based Coherent Optical Matrix Multiplication

TL;DR

This paper introduces a photonic chromatic dispersion equalization method using MZI-based coherent optical matrix multiplication, significantly enhancing performance with fewer taps and lower penalties.

Contribution

It presents a novel photonic CDE technique leveraging MZI-based matrix multiplication, reducing tap count and improving efficiency over existing methods.

Findings

Achieves about 60% improvement in compensation performance.

Requires only 50% of the theoretical tap count for 1-dB penalty.

Demonstrates effective dispersion compensation with limited tap-length.

Abstract

We propose and study an efficient photonic CDE method using MZI-based coherent optical matrix multiplication. It improves the compensation performance by about 60% when the tap-length is limited, and only 50% taps of the theoretical value is needed for photonic CDE with 1-dB penalty.