MIMO equalization optimized for baud rate clock recovery in coherent 112 Gbit/sec DP-QPSK metro systems

•MIMO equalization architecture for baud rate CR in DP-QPSK metro systems is proposed.•The proposed architecture avoids interaction between adaptive MIMO and CR loops.•M&M timing function is extended to cope with controlled ISI induced signals.•The proposed technique maintains similar adaptive MIMO equalizer performance.

A novel MIMO equalization architecture optimized for baud rate clock recovery (BCR-MIMO) in coherent 112 Gbit/sec dual polarization quadrature phase shift keying (DP-QPSK) metro systems is proposed. This architecture is designed to decouple between multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) equalization and clock recovery (CR) loops, avoiding the interaction between them. The decoupling between the two loops is achieved, while maintaining similar MIMO equalizer performance, as compared to the butterfly-structured equalizer.