Patent ID: 8948614
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, from a pluggable photonics module via a pluggable interface, a plurality of electrical data streams that together represent magnitude and phase information for a received optical signal in a coherent optical communication system, the electrical data streams having electrical distortion caused by the pluggable interface of the pluggable photonics module; compensating for the electrical distortion on a first electrical data stream of a pair of the electrical data streams based on a second electrical data stream of the pair of the electrical data streams; compensating for the electrical distortion on the second electrical data stream of the pair of the electrical data streams based on the first electrical data stream of the pair of the electrical data streams; and recovering the magnitude and phase information of the received optical signal from the electrical distortion compensated first and second electrical data streams.