{"title":"Transparent Carrier Phase Recovery Based on an Artificial Neural Network","authors":"Tobias Blatter;Chenrui Xu;Serge Kaufmann;Laurenz Kulmer;Yannik Horst;Juerg Leuthold","doi":"10.1109/LPT.2025.3582338","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Carrier phase recovery (CPR) is crucial in coherent optical communication, ensuring reliable data transmission. This letter proposes a novel artificial neural network (ANN)- based CPR algorithm. It achieves modulation-format transparency and robust phase recovery across a wide range of signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) at reduced computational cost compared to a two-stage blind phase search (2S-BPS). Simulations and experiments show that the proposed algorithm outperforms 2S-BPS at low SNRs with shaped quadrature amplitude modulation and surpasses universal carrier phase estimation (U-CPE) and principal component phase estimation (PCPE) with shaped formats at high SNRs. While a 3% pilot-only CPR achieves the best performance at low SNR at lowest computational cost, it does so at the cost of reduced throughput at high SNRs.","PeriodicalId":13065,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Photonics Technology Letters","volume":"37 22","pages":"1321-1324"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11048536","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Photonics Technology Letters","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11048536/","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Carrier phase recovery (CPR) is crucial in coherent optical communication, ensuring reliable data transmission. This letter proposes a novel artificial neural network (ANN)- based CPR algorithm. It achieves modulation-format transparency and robust phase recovery across a wide range of signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) at reduced computational cost compared to a two-stage blind phase search (2S-BPS). Simulations and experiments show that the proposed algorithm outperforms 2S-BPS at low SNRs with shaped quadrature amplitude modulation and surpasses universal carrier phase estimation (U-CPE) and principal component phase estimation (PCPE) with shaped formats at high SNRs. While a 3% pilot-only CPR achieves the best performance at low SNR at lowest computational cost, it does so at the cost of reduced throughput at high SNRs.
期刊介绍:
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters addresses all aspects of the IEEE Photonics Society Constitutional Field of Interest with emphasis on photonic/lightwave components and applications, laser physics and systems and laser/electro-optics technology. Examples of subject areas for the above areas of concentration are integrated optic and optoelectronic devices, high-power laser arrays (e.g. diode, CO2), free electron lasers, solid, state lasers, laser materials'' interactions and femtosecond laser techniques. The letters journal publishes engineering, applied physics and physics oriented papers. Emphasis is on rapid publication of timely manuscripts. A goal is to provide a focal point of quality engineering-oriented papers in the electro-optics field not found in other rapid-publication journals.