Abstract:
A receiver that may include a receiver front end arranged to receive (a) a received signal, (b) a reference signal generated by a local oscillator laser, and to output a first intermediate signal; a carrier phase estimator that is arranged to receive the first intermediate signal and to generate a phase estimation signal that represents a phase difference between the received signal and the reference signal; wherein the carrier phase estimator comprises a multi-symbol-differential-detection module and a carrier phase demodulator; and an output circuit arranged to receive the phase estimation signal and to apply a slicing operation to provide an output signal of the carrier phase estimator.
Abstract:
A receiver that may include a receiver front end, a polyphase de-multiplexor having multiple outputs; a polyphase multiplexor having multiple inputs; and a plurality of multi-symbol-differential-detection modules coupled between the multiple outputs of the polyphase de-multiplexor and the multiple inputs of the polyphase multiplexor.