Method and a device for carrier recovery

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and a device for feed-forward carrier recovery in coherent optical communication. The present invention discloses the method and the device to receive an optical signal from a light source, wherein the optical signal comprises at least one pilot pulse and at least one signal pulse including information. Quadrature values of a plurality of samples of the at least one pilot pulse are determined using a local oscillator signal of a local oscillator source. A phase difference between the received optical signal of the light source and the local oscillator signal of the local oscillator source is determined using the quadrature values of the plurality of samples and the carrier information of the at least one signal pulse is recovered based on the determined phase difference.

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