Abstract

There has been renewed interest in coherent detection to provide high spectral efficiency transmission for short-reach optical interconnects. However, the expensive high-stable laser sources may preclude its potential application. To balance the high performance and low cost for short-reach optical networks, the self-coherent homodyne receiver has been investigated, where the dual-polarization (DP) signal and the remote local oscillator (LO) originating from the same laser source co-propagate over a duplex fiber, enabling a remarkable tolerance of laser linewidth. However, the fast evolution of the state of polarization (SOP) of remotely delivered LO becomes problematic for self-coherent homodyne detection systems. To combat the polarization wandering of the remote LO, the complicated adaptive/automatic polarization controller (APC) has been deployed with only up to a few hundred rad/s polarization tracking speed. In this paper, we propose a complementary polarization-diversity coherent receiver (C-PDCR) for self-coherent homodyne detection using remote LO. The proposed C-PDCR features rapid polarization tracking for remote LO utilizing electronic digital signal processing (DSP). The robustness of the proposed C-PDCR is verified and demonstrated with a 1.08-Tb/s line rate (net rate 769.4 Gb/s over 45-GHz electrical bandwidth) using DP PCS-256QAM signal under rapid polarization rotation rate up to 314 krad/s in the experiment, which is more than 3-orders improvement of magnitude compared to the prior reports.

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