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Saber Md Ghulam

Luca Giorgi

Robert Frank Brunner

David V Plant

Tommaso Catuogno

Ramon Gutierrez Castrejon

Methods in an optical receiver, for decoding a received M-level pulse-amplitude-modulated, PAM-M, optical signal. An example method comprises, for a first interval, decoding () the received PAM-M optical signal using a standard PAM-M decoder with M-1 thresholds, using first sampling times, to obtain a first set of decoded bits, and decoding () the received PAM-M optical signal using a duobinary decoder with 2M-2 thresholds, at second sampling times offset from the first sampling times, to obtain second set of decoded bits. The method further comprises calculating () first and second error metrics corresponding to the first and second sets of decoded bits, respectively, and selecting () the standard PAM-M decoder or the duobinary decoder for subsequent decoding of the received PAM-M optical signal, based on the first and second error metrics.

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