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OwnerJoern Berger, Christof Boerner +1inventors
InventorsJOERN BERGER, CHRISTOF BOERNER, CARSTEN SCHMIDT-LANGHORST
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A phase-locked loop for a differential recovery of the clock signal wherein an extracted data signal (DS) is conveyed via a phase delay element and thence to a phase comparator. In the phase comparator comparison signals, whose phase shifts can be set relative to one another, differential phase evaluation is carried out. This results in a control signal (RS) whose operating point, independent of the power of the transmit channel, always lies in the center of the control range. In the inventive differential timing recovery, the dependencies on power fluctuations, signal-to-noise ratio, the pulse shape and on transmitted bit patterns are eliminated to the greatest possible extent.
An opto-electric phase-locked loop for the recovery at a receiver of a clock signal of a high-frequency data signal with zero return transmitted in a digital optical transmission system with an optically switching phase comparator, an electronic differential amplifier and a voltage controlled oscillator, whereby a comparison signal formed in the phase comparator by comparing the data signal and the recovered clock signal, and a signal extracted from the data signal are fed to the two inputs of the differential amplifier, and an electric control signal generated at the output of the differential amplifier is fed through a low-pass filter to the oscillator the controlled frequency signal of which is issued as the recovered clock signal, characterized by, prior to the one or the additional phase comparator (PC), the extracted signal is fed to an optical phase delay element (DELAY) and then through the one or through the additional phase comparator (PC) where it is superimposed by the recovered and fed-back clock signal (TS), and by the two phase-shifted comparison signals (DCS, CCS) formed in the one or more phase comparators (PC) being fed to the two inputs of the differential amplifier (DA).
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