faithfully input signals whose spectra contain very high signal frequencies and build
high-speed electronic signal-processing architectures continues to be an underscored
focus of signal-processing integrated circuit (IC) research and development.
This chapter provides a fairly broad overview, including the potential, feasibility, the
current state-of-the-art and future trends, of electrical signal processing techniques that
can be used to mitigate such ISI effects within a range of multi-Gb/s optical applica-
tions of current and future importance. Adaptive signal processing and, in particu-
lar, electronic equalization have found widespread applications in wireless
communications, disc drives, cable and DSL modems, radar, sonar, etc. The
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