Simple and efficient frequency offset tracking and carrier phase recovery algorithms in single carrier transmission systems

In this paper, we propose a low-complexity and efficient carrier recovery algorithm for single carrier transmission systems that is capable of tracking frequency offset (FO) variations. Working as a FO tracking estimator, the algorithm demonstrates good accuracy in simulation and a FO drift of up to 200 MHz/μs can be compensated with minimal degradation in a QPSK system. In 112 Gb/s dual polarization (DP) QPSK experiments, the algorithm recovers a data sequence having >80 MHz of FO drift within 250 μs, providing better performance than a one-time estimator. In a regime that utilizes parallel processing of the data, we further demonstrate FO tracking and carrier phase recovery (CPR) using only one of the streams in a parallelized configuration, and we apply the carrier information to recover neighbouring streams directly. Consequently, the complexity of both the FO tracking and the CPR is further reduced.