Patent 7899340 was granted and assigned to Ciena (company) on March, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Methods and systems for compensating a frequency mismatch Δf between a local Oscillator (LO) of a coherent optical receiver and a carrier of a received optical signal. An average frequency of the LO is controlled to compensate at least long-period variations of the frequency mismatch. An electrical carrier recovery circuit for compensating short period variations of the frequency mismatch.