On the transmitter, the data is converted into two channel analog signal by a digital to analog converter (DAC), which modulates the RF carrier of the IQ module. On the other hand, at the receiver, the RF signal transmitted is mixed with the lo, and the IQ component is obtained at the baseband. Such I.Q. signals are converted into a digital domain via an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and<br>Symbols are decoded by a digital signal processor. This type of receiver is called a direct conversion receiver. If the RF modulator in figure (a) and the RF mixer in figure (b) are replaced by the optical counterpart, i.e. the optical IQ modulator and the phase diversity zero difference receiver, we can easily imagine the optical transmitter and receiver based on the digital signal processor. The transmitter based on DSP, including the function shaping of Nyquist spectrum, signal predistortion / compensation and forward error correction (FEC) coding are important in business, but they are far beyond the scope of this paper. The latest development of high-speed digital integrated circuits makes it possible to process high-speed electrical signals in DSP core and extract IQ components of complex amplitude of optical carrier from zero difference detection signals in a very stable way. Then demodulate the carrier phase estimation in the subsequent digital of the 20 GB / s QPSK signal phase diversity zero difference receiver, although the bit error rate measurement is still offline. Since the carrier phase is recovered after zero difference detection by digital signal processor, this type of receiver is now commonly called "digital coherent receiver". Although an OPLL which locks the lo phase to the signal phase is still difficult to realize due to the loop delay problem, the digital signal processor circuit becomes faster and faster, which provides us with estimation of carrier phase Simple and effective method. Compared with OPLL scheme, the fast tracking of carrier phase greatly improves the stability of the system. Any type of multistage modulation format can be introduced to use coherent receivers. The spectrum efficiency of binary modulation format is limited to 1 bit / S / Hz / polarization, which is called Nyquist limit. The modulation format with MB bit information per symbol can achieve the highest spectrum efficiency of MB bit / S / Hz / polarization. Although optical delay detection has been used to demodulate QPSK signals (MB = 2), it is difficult to achieve such a plan in terms of multiplicity. Another important advantage of digital coherent receiver is its post signal processing function. The IQ demodulation of the digital coherent receiver is a completely linear process; therefore, even after the detection and optical signal processing functions act on the detected electrical stage, optical carriers such as optical filtering and dispersion compensation can be carried out. Therefore, the electric GVD compensation eliminates the dispersion compensation fiber. After detection, polarization alignment can also be carried out by introducing polarization diversity scheme into the zero difference receiver. The complex amplitudes of horizontal polarization and vertical polarization are measured and processed simultaneously by digital signal processor. The polarization demultiplexing and compensation of PMD has also been proved by the digital coherent receiver, in which the cumbersome and slow polarization controllers and optical delay delete lines are included.<br>
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