• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 23, Issue 6, 060602 (2025)
Chenchen Wang, Zhipei Li*, Ze Dong, Junyuan Song..., Ran Gao, Dong Guo, Huan Chang, Lei Zhu, Xiaolong Pan, Tianle Mai, Shanting Hu and Xiangjun Xin|Show fewer author(s)
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  • School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL202523.060602 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Chenchen Wang, Zhipei Li, Ze Dong, Junyuan Song, Ran Gao, Dong Guo, Huan Chang, Lei Zhu, Xiaolong Pan, Tianle Mai, Shanting Hu, Xiangjun Xin, "Highly robust and hardware-efficient frame synchronization and carrier recovery via pilot-only approaches for short-reach optical interconnections," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 060602 (2025) Copy Citation Text show less
    (a) Schematic diagram of pilot symbol extraction; (b) mean amplitude of each group symbol.
    Fig. 1. (a) Schematic diagram of pilot symbol extraction; (b) mean amplitude of each group symbol.
    Schematic diagram of pilot-aided frame synchronization. (a) Obtainment of the PIs between pilot symbols at the same time slot, and variation of PIs with (b) correct and (c) incorrect elimination of modulation information.
    Fig. 2. Schematic diagram of pilot-aided frame synchronization. (a) Obtainment of the PIs between pilot symbols at the same time slot, and variation of PIs with (b) correct and (c) incorrect elimination of modulation information.
    Polarization misaligned frame structure.
    Fig. 3. Polarization misaligned frame structure.
    Block diagram of the proposed polarization-joint misaligned pilot-aided carrier recovery scheme. (a) Pilot-aided frame synchronization; (b)–(c) two-stage cascade FOE; (d) phase offset fine estimation; and (e) pilot-aided CPR.
    Fig. 4. Block diagram of the proposed polarization-joint misaligned pilot-aided carrier recovery scheme. (a) Pilot-aided frame synchronization; (b)–(c) two-stage cascade FOE; (d) phase offset fine estimation; and (e) pilot-aided CPR.
    Schematic diagram of FOE with large PMDs.
    Fig. 5. Schematic diagram of FOE with large PMDs.
    (a) MSE curves with different CFOs for FFT-FOE, pilot-aided polarization-separate FOE (M = 64), and pilot-aided polarization-joint FOE (M = 2, 4, 8). (b) MSE versus DGD.
    Fig. 6. (a) MSE curves with different CFOs for FFT-FOE, pilot-aided polarization-separate FOE (M = 64), and pilot-aided polarization-joint FOE (M = 2, 4, 8). (b) MSE versus DGD.
    BER versus optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) for different carrier recovery schemes.
    Fig. 7. BER versus optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) for different carrier recovery schemes.
    Diagram of the experimental setup. RRC, root raised cosine; ECL, external cavity laser; SSMF, standard single-mode fiber; LO, local oscillator.
    Fig. 8. Diagram of the experimental setup. RRC, root raised cosine; ECL, external cavity laser; SSMF, standard single-mode fiber; LO, local oscillator.
    BER curves versus ROP with M = 2 when Nb = (a) 64, (b) 128, and (c) 256.
    Fig. 9. BER curves versus ROP with M = 2 when Nb = (a) 64, (b) 128, and (c) 256.
    (a) Spectrum under large CFOs; (b) constellation diagrams of different carrier recovery schemes. BER curves versus ROP when (c) M = 2 and (d) M = 8.
    Fig. 10. (a) Spectrum under large CFOs; (b) constellation diagrams of different carrier recovery schemes. BER curves versus ROP when (c) M = 2 and (d) M = 8.
     MultiplicationAddition
    FFT-FOE16 Ns + 4 Ns log2 (Ns)8 Ns + 4Ns log2Ns
    5734449152
    BPS6 NbB + 4 Nb5 NbB + 2Nb
    1254410368
    Pilot-aided frame12 L16 L1
    synchronization240120
    Pilot-aided24 L22 L1 + 16L2 − 4
    FOE28801956
    Pilot-aided3 NbP + 7 NbPL+ Nb (H − 1)/N + 4 Nb
    CPR451395
    Table 1. Computational Complexity
    Chenchen Wang, Zhipei Li, Ze Dong, Junyuan Song, Ran Gao, Dong Guo, Huan Chang, Lei Zhu, Xiaolong Pan, Tianle Mai, Shanting Hu, Xiangjun Xin, "Highly robust and hardware-efficient frame synchronization and carrier recovery via pilot-only approaches for short-reach optical interconnections," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 060602 (2025)
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