arxiveess.SP2026-07-19
Fourth-Order Cyclostationary Analysis of Power-Based Nonlinear Gardner Timing Error Detectors in Coherent Optical Systems
Zhongxing Tian, Zeyu Feng, Huan Huang, Dongdong Zou, Gangxiang Shen, Yi Cai
Power-based nonlinear Gardner timing error detectors (TEDs) can enhance clock-tone (CT) extraction in low-roll-off and bandwidth-limited coherent optical systems. However, their nonlinear power-domain operations make the extracted CT components depend on higher-order cyclic stati…