eprintid: 10204393 rev_number: 6 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/20/43/93 datestamp: 2025-02-06 11:07:08 lastmod: 2025-02-06 11:07:08 status_changed: 2025-02-06 11:07:08 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Barbosa, FA creators_name: Ferreira, FM title: Enhancing the Vertical Resolution of Coherent Optical Receivers ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: F46 keywords: Optical communications, coherent detection, digital-to-analog converter, analog-to-digital converter, effective number of bits note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: The constantly increasing capacity demand in optical fiber transmission systems has driven the development of higher-order modulation to share the cost and power-consumption of optoelectronic components across many bits. However, higher-order modulation imposes challenging requirements on high-speed optoelectronic transceiver components such as on the vertical resolution of analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters. State-of-the-art high-speed converters limit the development of next-generation systems above 6 bit/s/Hz/pol at symbol rates beyond 100 Gbaud for Nyquist shaped channels. Ultimately, in the absence of fiber nonlinearity the upper limit on the available signal-to-noise ratio is bounded by the transceiver subsystems. Here we propose a novel optoelectronic technique to enhance the effective vertical resolution of coherent receivers through optical intensity reshaping. Finally, we show that the proposed technique to increase the effective resolution will also boost the performance of digital backpropagation used to mitigate fiber Kerr nonlinear response. date: 2025 date_type: published publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) official_url: https://doi.org/10.1109/jlt.2024.3521296 oa_status: green language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2346744 doi: 10.1109/JLT.2024.3521296 lyricists_name: Marques Ferreira, Filipe lyricists_name: Barbosa, Fabio Aparecido lyricists_id: FMARQ88 lyricists_id: FABAR60 actors_name: Marques Ferreira, Filipe actors_id: FMARQ88 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Journal of Lightwave Technology pagerange: 1-8 issn: 0733-8724 citation: Barbosa, FA; Ferreira, FM; (2025) Enhancing the Vertical Resolution of Coherent Optical Receivers. Journal of Lightwave Technology pp. 1-8. 10.1109/JLT.2024.3521296 <https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2024.3521296>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10204393/1/EnhaceEnob_vFinal.pdf