Novel blind equalizer for coherent DP-BPSK transmission systems: Theory and experiment

Adaptive blind equalization based on constant modulus algorithm is very efficient to carry out polarization separation and inter-symbol interference compensation in a coherent dual-polarization quaternary-phase-shift-keying transmission system. Its performance is, however, very poor when coherent dual-polarization binary-phase-shift-keying (BPSK) modulation is considered. In this letter, we propose a new blind equalizer adapted to any PSK constellation and we theoretically show its convergence. Experimental BER measurements and convergence analysis are performed in a 40 Gbps coherent dual-polarization BPSK system under different physical impairments. We show that our equalizer outperforms existing blind algorithms.