This paper presents a cost-optimized design framework for
a single-polarization coherent receiver employing Polarization
Time Block Coding (PTBC) for 200-Gbps 6G fronthaul optical
access. Under the practical assumptions of −10 dBm launch
power, 20-km SMF transmission, C-band operation, and a shotnoise-
limited frontend with a noise figure of approximately 7 dB,
the electrical SNR at the coherent receiver can exceed 30 dB.
This allows the AWGN-induced EVM to be constrained to as
low as 3%. Leveraging this margin, the remaining EVM budget
is redistributed to key hardware-dominant impairments—
including quantization, IQ imbalance, laser phase noise,
sampling jitter, chromatic-dispersion-induced ISI, and residual
CFO/SCO—with the primary goal of enabling low-cost system
implementation. The resulting specifications include 6–7-bit
ADC/DAC resolution, an allowable combined laser linewidth on
the order of 2 MHz (compatible with DFB/EML-class
transmitters), relaxed IRR requirements (28–33 dB), residual
SCO tolerance of 5–10 ppm, and moderate equalization
complexity. The proposed analytical methodology provides a
practical reference model for coherent-lite receivers targeted for
6G fronthaul deployment, enabling cost reduction without
compromising essential transmission performance.
KSP Keywords
Analytical methodology, Band operation, C-band, Coherent receiver, DAC resolution, IQ imbalance, Laser linewidth, Low-cost system, Reference model, Single polarization, Time block
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