Joint carrier frequency offset and phase noise estimation based on pseudo-pilot in CO-FBMC/OQAM system

Abstract

A simple method based on a designed pseudo-pilot is proposed for both carrier frequency offset (CFO) and phase noise (PN) estimation for the coherent optical offset-quadratic-amplitude modulation (QAM) based filterbank multicarrier (CO-FBMC/OQAM) transmission. Numerical simulations are performed to evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme for a 20 GBd/s FBMC/OQAM system. The simulation results show that a robust and precise CFO and PN estimation can be achieved simultaneously in comparison with traditional methods. For the CFO estimation, our method can achieve a wide CFO estimation range of [-10, +10 GHz]. As for the PN compensation, the tolerable combined laser linewidths under 1 dB optical signal noise ratio (OSNR) penalty constraint for 4/8/16/32-QAM are around 1.6 MHz, 0.8 MHz, 500 kHz, and 250 kHz, respectively. The results indicate that the proposed scheme can be used for a wide range CFO and PN compensation with better transmission performance in high speed CO-FBMC/OQAM system.