Impact of mechanical vibrations on laser stability and carrier phase estimation in coherent receivers

M. Kuschnerov, K. Piyawanno, M.S. Alfiad, B. Spinnler, A. Napoli, B. Lankl

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Abstract

Coherent communication systems are largely limited by the laser linewidth of the local oscillator. In addition to phase noise, large frequency deviations can occur if the laser is mechanically vibrated. The detrimental effect of the frequency instability is measured for coherent optical receivers on a typical laser and numerically analyzed for quadrature phase-shift keying and 16-quadrature amplitude modulation using common feed-forward carrier phase recovery algorithms.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1114-1116
Number of pages3
JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume22
Issue number15
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010

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