“…Since then, a number of studies were undertaken to explore a variety of equalizer structures for adaptive optical-channel impairment compensation ranging from feedforward-type equalizers to maximum-likelihood estimators [6,7,8,9,10,11]. Among many studies in electronic PMD compensation in recent years, [12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19], the first decision-feedback loop and tapped-delay-line equalizer at 10 Gbps were implemented in [20] and [21] respectively. The maximum-likelihood estimation for PMD compensation was also investigated in [22,23].…”