Abstract

Phase-retrieval (PR) receivers can reconstruct complex-valued signals from two de-correlated intensity measurements by the use of iterative PR algorithm, without the assistance of any optical carriers. However, both the computational complexity with hundreds of iterations and the limited PR accuracy prevent it from being applied to high-speed photonic interconnections. In current submission, we propose a weighted decision enhanced PR receiver with adaptive intensity transformation (WD_AIT_PR). The weighted decision based on a compressed sigmoid nonlinear function is helpful to avoid the hard-decision (HD) errors, leading to the performance enhancement of the PR receiver, in terms of both convergence speed and PR accuracy. When the 56 GBaud 16QAM signal after transmission over 80 km standard single mode fiber (SSMF) is reconstructed, the WD_AIT_PR receiver is numerically verified to possess the faster convergency speed with only 70 iterations and the best steady BER performance by reducing the required optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) by 0.8 dB, 1.8 dB and 1.8 dB in order to reach 7% HD forward error correction (HD-FEC), in comparison with the HD_AIT_PR receiver by replacing WD with HD, the PR receiver with the phase reset (PR_PR) and the PR receiver with adaptive intensity transformation (AIT_PR), respectively. Meanwhile, the WD_AIT_PR receiver is robust to transmission impairments, including transmitter-side I/Q imbalance, receiver-side skew, the noise imbalance between two intensity measurements, laser phase noise, and laser wavelength drift. Finally, the enhanced performance of the WD_AIT_PR receiver is experimentally verified through recovering 25 GBaud 16QAM signals under the condition of 40 km SSMF transmission.

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