Toward Acceleration and Simplification of Coherent DSP Chains: Frequency Pilot Sub-Carrier Strategies for Coherent Systems
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Abstract
This paper focuses on the development of narrow-bandwidth pilot sub-carriers designed to reduce signaling overhead and computational complexity while enabling fast and robust initialization of coherent optical systems. A proper DSP implementation for the transceiver design, along with a specific frame structure, is proposed. Fast initialization algorithms are introduced, including local-oscillator-frequency-offset (LOFO) estimation, coarse chromatic dispersion (CD) estimation, and clock recovery, utilizing two pilot sub-carriers and specific training sequence (TS) design. These algorithms are designed to be fast, robust, and capable of significantly reducing receiver response time—a critical feature for dynamic and low-latency optical networks. Moreover, the application of pilot sub-carriers is explored as a means to reduce implementation complexity by eliminating the need for complex modules (e.g., clock recovery and carrier recovery (CR)), while maintaining functionality through pilot sub-carriers. Additionally, frequency and phase tracking techniques using pilot sub-carriers are proposed. This approach removes the overhead associated with pilot symbols from the payload frame structure, resulting in performance improvements, cost reduction, and enhanced spectral efficiency.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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