In view of the influence of the frequency-selective transmitter In-phase/Quadrature-phase(IQ)imbalance on the transmission performance of Coherent Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing(CO-OFDM)systems
this paper proposes a Decision Feedback(DF)-based IQ imbalance estimation algorithm and compares it with the traditional Pilot Insertion(PI)algorithm.Simulation research and theoretical deduction results indicate that the proposed algorithm can not only effectively estimate IQ imbalance and channel parameters