What is coherent carrier recovery?
Carrier phase recovery (CPR) is an indispensible function in such coherent receivers, in which the random phase shifts induced by laser phase noise at both transmitter and receiver sides need to be compensated.
What is carrier recovery in digital modulation?
Carrier recovery refers to establishing a local carrier reference signal which accurately reproduces the frequency and, with some modulation methods, the phase of the carrier of the modulated signal.