Hardware-efficient coherent digital receiver concept with feedforward carrier recovery for M-QAM constellations

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 989-999

  Pfau, Timo ^a   Hoffmann, Sebastian ^a   Noé, Reinhold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coherent communication; Feedforward carrier recovery; Optical communication; Parallel processing; Phase estimation; Phase noise; Quadrature amplitude modulation

Indexed keywords

ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTERS; ASE NOISE; COHERENT COMMUNICATION; CONSTELLATION POINTS; DIGITAL RECEIVERS; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATIONS; FEED-BACK LOOPS; FEEDFORWARD CARRIER RECOVERY; HIGHER ORDERS; LASER PHASE NOISE; MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTIONS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; NOISE TOLERANCES; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PHASE ESTIMATION; RESOLUTION EFFECTS; SYMBOL DURATIONS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; CARRIER COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION; ESTIMATION; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MULTICARRIER MODULATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHASE NOISE; PHOTONICS;

QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

EID: 65649096579     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.2010511     Document Type: Article

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