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Performance Investigations of Filtered Carrier Phase Estimator for High-Order QAM Systems

Students: Shay Tzubery , Sapir Todosi

Supervisor: Dr. David Dahan

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Introduction

- The data traffic pace is experiencing dramatic growth in an era where end-users consume apps, services, and visual contents online.

- Optical networks  can cope with the exponential growth of data traffic by using higher order QAM modulation  at high baud rate.

- The main goal of this project is to apply and investigate digital and blind  carrier phase estimation and compensation methods based on Viterbi & Viterbi estimators adapted to the high-order QAM method and enables the reduction of cycle slips occurrences.

- The project implements part of the DSP of a coherent optical receiver.

Model & Algorithms

- Discrete channel model with Phase noise & AWGN noise:

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- Viterbi and Viterbi (V&V*) for 64QAM modulation:

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- Phase estimation steps according to the MLE algorithm:

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 Cycle slips problem & Differential Encoding

In the occurrence of CS, the synchronization between the decision areas we define and the symbols we receive is completely lost.

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In Differential Encoding , some information bits are encoded on the phase difference between two consecutive symbols: this mitigates cycle slips impact.

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Simulation Results

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Conclusions

We have developed a numerical simulation platform to evaluate the performance of a high speed 64-QAM coherent optic receiver  based on Blind Carrier Phase Estimation algorithm to reduce impact of laser phase noise and cycle slips.

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