Patent attributes
A receiver may receive an optical signal over an optical communications channel established between the receiver and a transmitter, the received optical signal comprising a degraded version of a modulated optical signal generated at the transmitter. The receiver may determine received digital signals corresponding to a plurality of first dimensions of the received optical signal, wherein the first dimensions correspond to dimensions of an optical carrier modulated at the transmitter to represent a multi-bit symbol, and wherein the first dimensions are distributed over two or more timeslots. The receiver may determine preliminary digital drive signal estimates using an inverse dimensional transformation and the received digital signals, the preliminary digital drive signal estimates corresponding to a plurality of second dimensions. The receiver may determine an estimate of the multi-bit symbol using the preliminary digital drive signal estimates. The inverse dimensional transformation may average signal degradations in the received digital signals.
