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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2009
Applicants:
Noriaki Kaneda, Westfield, NJ (US);
Andreas B. Leven, Heroldsberg, DE;
Inventors:
Noriaki Kaneda, Westfield, NJ (US);
Andreas B. Leven, Heroldsberg, DE;
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for correcting of phase errors in a coherent optical receiver are disclosed. Embodiments include a method for calculating a phase error between in-phase and quadrature-phase component signals, multiplying the phase error by one of the component signals and subtracting the result from the other component signal to output a corrected signal.