FWM-based, idler-free phase quantiser with flexible operating power

Coherently adding a signal's conjugate and third harmonic at the latter's wavelength enables phase quantisation across a large operating power range. With broadband phase noise, a 5.6dB QPSK receiver sensitivity improvement is achieved with BER= 10-4.

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