Direct detection receiver using cross-polarization interferometer for polmux-ask system

1. A differential delay detection system, comprising:

a cross-polarization interferometer which receives a polarization multiplexed input signal and is configured to separately generate polarization independent outputs using split paths and to generate cross-polarization interference outputs;

balanced photodetectors which filter the outputs of the cross-polarization interferometer;

a training signal receiver which receives the input signal and which is configured to extract a training signal from the input signal and generate updated coefficients representing a rotation of the input's polarization; and

a polarization demultiplexer configured to combine the polarization independent outputs and the cross-polarization interference outputs from the cross-polarization interferometer, after they have been filtered by the balanced photodetectors, with the updated coefficients received from the training signal receiver to extract an original, unrotated signal;

wherein the cross-polarization interferometer includes a polarization beam splitter to split an incoming optical signal into a first polarization signal and a second polarization signal;

wherein the first and second polarization signal are further split and the cross-polarization interferometer further comprises a polarization controller configured to rotate a split version of the first polarization signal by 90 degrees to form a rotated version of the first polarization signal; and

wherein a split version of the second polarization signal and the rotated version are cross-coupled with one tap delays to output the cross-polarization interference outputs.

2. The system as recited in claim 1 , wherein a split version of the first polarization signal is combined with a one tap delay version of itself and a split version of the second polarization signal is combined with a one tap delay version of itself to provide the polarization independent outputs.

3. The system as recited in claim 1 , wherein the polarization demultiplexer includes multipliers to multiply the updated coefficients with one of the polarization independent outputs and the cross-polarization interference outputs.

4. The system as recited in claim 3 , wherein the polarization demultiplexer includes adders to add product outputs of the multipliers.

5. The system as recited in claim 1 , wherein the incoming signal is modulated using amplitude shift keying (ASK) and the polarization demultiplexer outputs to an ASK receiver.

6. The system as recited in claim 1 , wherein the balanced photodetectors remove a cross-polarization beating noise.

7. A method for differential delay detection comprising:

receiving a polarization multiplexed input signal;

generating polarization independent outputs and cross polarization interference outputs from the input signal using split paths in a cross-polarization interferometer;

filtering the outputs using balanced photodetectors;

extracting a training signal from the input signal and computing updated coefficients representing a rotation of the inputs polarization using a training signal receiver;

polarization demultiplexing the polarization independent outputs and the cross-polarization interference outputs after they have been filtered to combine with the updated coefficients received from the training signal receiver to obtain an original, unrotated signal;

splitting the incoming optical signal in the first path into a first polarization signal and a second polarization signal;

further splitting the first and second polarization signals; and rotating a split version of the first polarization signal by 90 degrees to form a rotated version of the first polarization signal; and

cross-coupling a split version of the second polarization signal and the rotated version with one tap delays to output the cross-polarization interference outputs.

8. The system as recited in claim 7 , further comprising:

combining a split version of the first polarization signal with a one tap delay version of itself, and combining a split version of the second polarization signal with a one tap delay version of itself to provide the polarization independent outputs.

9. The method as recited in claim 7 , further comprising:

multiplying the updated coefficients with one of the polarization independent outputs and the cross-polarization interference outputs by the polarization demultiplexer.

10. The method as recited in claim 9 , further comprising: adding product outputs of the multipliers by the polarization demultiplexer.

11. The method as recited in claim 7 , wherein the incoming signal is modulated using amplitude shift keying (ASK) and the polarization demultiplexer outputs to an ASK receiver.

12. The method as recited in claim 7 , wherein the filtering removes a cross-polarization beating noise.

13. A method for differential delay detection comprising:

receiving a polarization multiplexed input signal;

generating polarization independent outputs and cross polarization interference outputs from the input signal using split paths in a cross-polarization interferometer;

filtering the outputs using balanced photodetectors;

extracting a training signal from the input signal and computing updated coefficients representing a rotation of the inputs polarization using a training signal receiver;

polarization demultiplexing the polarization independent outputs and the cross-polarization interference outputs after they have been filtered to combine with the updated coefficients received from the training signal receiver to obtain an original, unrotated signal;

splitting the incoming optical signal in the first path into a first polarization signal and a second polarization signal;

further splitting the first and second polarization signals and rotating a split version of the first polarization signal by 90 degrees to form a rotated version of the first polarization signal; and

combining a split version of the first polarization signal with a one tap delay version of itself, and combining a split version of the second polarization signal with a one tap delay version of itself to provide the polarization independent outputs.