Abstract

A baud-rate sampling timing recovery (TR) scheme with receiver IQ skew tolerance is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The proposed scheme performs independent TR for the in-phase and quadrature (IQ) tributary signals, thereby tracking the sampling phase error while naturally compensating for receiver IQ skew. The robustness of the IQ-independent TR to frequency offset (FO) and phase noise is theoretically analyzed. To address IQ misalignment caused by the IQ-independent TR, the use of pseudo-noise (PN) sequences for IQ frame synchronization is proposed. The proposed scheme achieves accurate timing recovery with hardware-efficient baud-rate sampling in the presence of receiver IQ skew, laying the foundation for stable performance of subsequent baud-rate equalization. The performance of the scheme is validated in a 56 GBaud polarization division multiplexed (PDM) 16QAM coherent experimental system. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme achieves similar BER performance to the modified Gardner + real-valued multiple-input multiple-output (RVMIMO) (@2 SPS) scheme. Moreover, the proposed scheme exhibits robustness to arbitrary IQ skew compared to the ABSPD + RVMIMO (@1 SPS) scheme.

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