Improving performance of optical fibre chaotic communication by dispersion compensation techniques

This paper numerically investigates the effects of dispersion on optical fibre chaotic communication, and proposes a dispersion compensation scheme to improve the performance of optical fibre chaotic communication system. The obtained results show that the transmitter-receiver synchronization progressively degrades and the signal-to-noise ratio of the recovered message deteriorates as the fibre length increases due to the dispersion accumulation. Two segments of 2.5-km dispersion-compensating fibres are symmetrically placed at both ends of a segment of 245-km nonzero dispersionshifted fibre with low dispersion in one compensation period. The numerical results show that the signal-to-noise ratio of the extracted 1 GHz sinusoidal message is improved from -2.92 dB to 15.38 dB by this dispersion compensation for the transmission distance of 500 km.     

Dynamic Polarization-Mode-Dispersion Compensation for 160 Gbit/s OTDM Systems

We report on 160 Gbit/s RZ （return-to-zero） code transmission experiments including a dynamic polarization mode dispersion （PMD） compensation. The 2.5-ps first-order and 15-ps2 second-order PMD are compensated for. The PMD compensation time is within 24 ms. The experimental results show that a significant improvement of system performance can be achieved by auto-correlative curves.     

Electronic compensator for 100-Gb/s PDM-CO-OFDM long-haul transmission systems

We study an electronic compensator (EC) as a receiver for a 100-Gb/s polarization division multiplexing coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (PDM-CO-OFDM) system without optical dispersion compensation.EC,including electrical dispersion compensation (EDC),least squares channel estimation and compensation (LSCEC),and phase compensation (PC),is used to compensate for chromatic dispersion (CD),phase noise,polarization mode dispersion (PMD),and channel impairments,respectively.Simulations show that EC is highly effective in compensating for those impairments and that the performance is close to the theoretical limitation of optical signal-to-noise rate (OSNR),CD,and PMD.Its robustness against those transmission impairments and fiber nonlinearity are also systematically studied.     

The system of L-band 2 × 10 Gb/s WDM transmission over conventional single mode fibre with 600 km by chirped fibre Bragg gratings dispersion compensation

A chirped fibre Bragg grating according to ITU-T suggested L-band （2nd channel λ1 = 1570.83 nm; 80th channel λ2 = 1603.57 nm） with more than 1800 ps/nm single channel dispersion compensation is presented in this paper, of which the cladding mode loss, the delay curve ripple and the power fluctuation of the reflected spectrum are less than 0.5 dB, 50 ps and 0.25 dB, respectively. With this new FBG as dispersion compensation device, a 2 × 10 Gb/s wavelength division multiplexing （WDM） L-band transmission of 600 km based on conventional single mode fibre （G.652 fibre） is performed without forward error correction. The bit error rate （BER） is less than 10-12 and the power penalties of the 2nd and 80th channel of L-band are 1.8 dB and 2.0 dB, respectively.     

Polarization Maintaining Fibre Loop Mirror for NRZ-to-PRZ Conversion in All-Optical Clock Recovery

We propose a novel configuration for clock extraction by converting the NRZ data into the PRZ data and by employing a polarization-maintaining fibre loop mirror （PMFLM） which is usually used as an optical comb filter. It is found that the PMFLM can simply be constructed by a polarization controller and polarization-maintaining fibre （PMF）. We theoretically analyse the principle of PMFLM for the NRZ-to-PRZ conversion. Experimentally we demonstrate 10 Gbit/s all-optical clock recovery through our proposed setup, It is shown that recovered clock signal with an extinction ratio above 10 dB can be achieved.     

A structure for ultra long span unrepeatered optical transmission systems

<正>A novel structure for ultra long span optical transmission systems is proposed.In the scheme,the inverse fast Fourier trans form(IFFT) is used as a way of inverse multiplexing.A 40-Gb/s(total effective capacity) system based on the proposed scheme is simulated to evaluate its performance without consideration for dispersion compensation.Simulation results indicate that the proposed system can tolerate distortion caused by chromatic dispersion effectively after long distance transmission.     

A Novel Method for Measuring the Photo－Induced Birefringence of Photosensitive Fibres Based on a Fibre Loop ＊

We report a novel method for measuring photo-induced birefringence of photosensitive fibres based on a fibre loop.The method is simple and is only slightly affected by the surroundings. The experimental results show that thephoto-inducing normalized birefringence of the photosensitive fibre is multi-decaying-exponentially proportionalto the exposure and it can attain 10^-5.     

A Novel Bi-wavelength Method for Accurately Measuring Gain and Noise Characteristics of an Erbium-Doped Fibre Amplifier for Multi-Channel Wavelength Division Multiplexing Transmission

Gain and noise figure (NF) are the most important two parameters of an erbium-doped fibre amplifier (EDFA) for a multi-channel wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) transmission system. A simple bi-wavelength method for accurate gain and NF spectrum measurement of EDFA for WDM applications is proposed. A saturating input signal, whose power equals to the sum of all the WDM signal power and whose wavelength is determined by the channel numbers and the wavelength of the WDM input signals, saturates the EDFA in a degree as the same as the WDM signals input. Meanwhile, a small power probe signal scans and measures the gain and the NF value at every wavelength of the WDM input signals. Investigative results by numerical simulation show that the gain and the NF spectra measured by this method have good agreement with the real spectra of the WDM signal input in a large total input power range. The maximum errors of the gain and the NF are less than 0.2 dB and 0.16dB, respectively, for a 50-channel input case. The method is competent for the accurate gain and the NF spectrum measurement of the fibre preamplifier and the line-amplifier for WDM applications and has the advantages of simplicity, convenience and easy implement.     

Temperature independent 80 Gb/s transmission system using spectral phase modulation-based TDC

A temperature independent 80-Gb/s 100-km transmission system is demonstrated with the use of spectral phase modulation-based tunable dispersion compensator (TDC). The principle of dispersion compensation based on spectral phase modulation as well as the relationship between spectral phase modulation function and group velocity dispersion (GVD) are theoretically studied. TDC based on spectral phase modulation is implemented. The performance of 80-Gb/s transmission system is experimentally evaluated. The nonlinear relationship between temperature and temperature-induced dispersion fluctuations is demonstrated through the asymmetric temperature-induced power penalty without dispersion compensation. With respect to the low temperature area, the temperature-induced dispersion fluctuations are smaller than those in the high temperature area. By using the proposed TDC, temperature independent 80-Gb/s transmission is successfully demonstrated under a temperature range of -20 - 60 ?C with a power penalty of less than 0.8 dB.     

Characteristics of Photonic Bandgap Fibres with Hollow Core＇s Inner Surface Coated by a Layer Material

Hollow core＇s inner surface coating in a photonic bandgap fibre （PBCF） is investigated by means of finite element method. The coat material and thickness-dependence dispersion curve and group velocity dispersion are numerically studied. The coating with materials of low index or small thickness will rise up the dispersion curve but will not induce surface modes. However, coating with materials of high index or big coat thickness will induce surface modes and avoided-crossings. By varying coat material＇s refractive index and thickness, the appearances of surface modes and avoided-crossings can be changed. It is found that the avoided-crossing can enormously enlarge the negative dispersion which can find applications in dispersion compensation. We numerically achieve a negative dispersion as large as -21416.15ps/nm/km. The results give a physical insight into the propagation properties of PBGFs with the hollow core coated by a layer of material and are of crucial significance in the applications of PBGF coating.     

Short pulse propagation in dense dispersion compensated systems

The short Hermite-Gaussian optical pulse transmission over 1440 km in a dense dispersion compensated system is investigated based on numerical simulation. In the simulation, compensation is made not only for the group-velocity dispersion but also for the third order dispersion. It is demonstrated that the pulse with reasonably lower power can propagate steadily in net zero, positive and negative dispersion system.     

Compensation of chromatic dispersion for full-duplex ROF link with vector signal transmission using an optical phase shifter

We demonstrate the theory of chromatic dispersion(CD)-induced constellation rotation(CR) in a radio-over-fiber(ROF) link and a method for compensation. We also propose a 60 GHz full-duplex ROF system with vector signal transmission including no CD effect. The evaluation of 5 Gb/s 16 quadrature amplitude modulation signal transmission shows that the CD-induced CR can be entirely overcome due to the proposed method which is simply implemented through an optical phase shifter. The proposed ROF schedule is not only applicable for V-band(57–64 GHz) but also fits for W-band(75–110 GHz), or any other bandwidth.     

Generation of 207-femtosecond pulses from a ytterbium figure-of-eight fibre laser

We report the generation of 207-fs pulses with 1.2mW average power at 1036nm directly from a passively mode-locked Yb-doped fibre laser with a nonlinear optical loop mirror for mode-locking and pairs of diffraction gratings for intracavity dispersion compensation. These results imply a 4-fold reduction in pulse duration over previously reported figure-of-eight cavity passively mode-locked Yb-doped fibre lasers. Stable pulse trains are produced at the fundamental repetition rate of the resonator, 24.0MHz. On the other hand, this laser offers a cleaner spectrum and greater stability and is completely self-starting.     

The system of L-band 2×10 Gb/s WDM transmission over conventional single mode fibre with 600 km by chirped fibre Bragg gratings dispersion compensation

A chirped fibre Bragg grating according to ITU-T suggested L-band (2nd channel $\lambda _{1}=1570.83$~nm; 80th channel $\lambda _{2}=1603.57$ nm) with more than 1800 ps/nm single channel dispersion compensation is presented in this paper, of which the cladding mode loss, the delay curve ripple and the power fluctuation of the reflected spectrum are less than 0.5 dB, 50 ps and 0.25 dB, respectively. With this new FBG as dispersion compensation device, a $2\times 10$ Gb/s wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) L-band transmission of 600 km based on conventional single mode fibre (G.652 fibre) is performed without forward error correction. The bit error rate (BER) is less than 10$^{ - 12}$ and the power penalties of the 2{nd} and 80{th} channel of L-band are 1.8~dB and 2.0~dB, respectively.     

A PMD-supported 100-Gb/s optical frequency-domain IM-DD transmission system

A novel method for distortion-free optical pulse transmission is theoretically proposed and simulated, in which two time lenses formed by dispersion fibers and quadratic phase modulations are utilized. One is used as an optical inverse Fourier transformation （OIFT） device to transform the initial time-domain data to frequency-domain one at the transmitter and the other as an optical Fourier transformation （OFT） device to recover the data at the receiver. By using the unchanged spectral envelope in linear optical fiber communication, the initial data can be recovered. Through simulations, a 10× 100 Gb/s intensity-modulated direct-detection （IM-DD） dense wavelength division multiplexing （DWDM） system over 20000 km transmission without the compensation for polarization mode dispersion （PMD） and dispersion slope is achieved, which can be used to upgrade the current 100Gb/s IM-DD system to a 100-Gb/s one directly.     

Stable error-free single channel 160-Gb/s OTDM 100-km transmission via high-precision dispersion management

<正>A single channel with a 160-Gb/s optical time-division-multiplexing(OTDM) transmission over 100 km is fabricated.With the help of 500-GHz optical sampling oscilloscopes,the fiber length is adjusted to the order of 10 m,which corresponds to the accuracy of 0.4 ps for the dispersion compensation.The dispersion map is optimized for the 100-km transmission link.A completely error-free transmission with the power penalty of 3.6 dB is achieved for 2 h without using forward error correction.     

An experiment of PMD compensation in 40-Gb/s PSBT transmission system

An adaptive polarization mode dispersion （PMD） compensation experiment is reported in a 40-Gb/s phase shaped binary transmission （PSBT） communication system, with the use of a new digital signal processor （DSP）-based optical PMD compensator. PMD tolerance is found to be enhanced by 8 ps after PMD compensation with 1-dB optical signal-to-noise ratio （OSNR） penalty. Under the condition of fast change of states of polarization up to 85 rad/s in the fiber link, the performance of our PMD compensator undergoes the bit error ratio （BER） test for as long as 10 h.     

Ultra-narrow bandwidth optical filters consisting of one-dimensional photonic crystals with anomalous dispersion materials

We present a new type of optical filter with an ultra-narrow bandwidth and a wide field-of-view （FOV）. This kind of optical filter consists of one-dimensional photonic crystal （PC） incorporating an anomalous-dispersion-material （ADM） with, for instance, an anomalous dispersion of 6P3/2←6S1/2 hyperfine structure transition of a caesium atom. The transmission spectra of optical filters are calculated by using the transfer-matrix method. The simulation results show that the designed optical filter has a bandwidth narrower than 0.33GHz and a wide FOV of ±30°as well. The response of transmission spectrum to an external magnetic field is also investigated.     

Effects of pulse chirp on supercontinuum produced in dispersion decreasing fibre

The supercontinuum (SC) source plays a key role in wavelength division multiplexing over the optical time division multiplexing (WDM/OTDM) transmission system. The SC produced in dispersion decreasing fibre (DDF) is wider and flatter than that produced in dispersion shifted fibre (DSF). In this paper, a SC producing process in DDF is numerically simulated, the effects of pump pulse chirp on the SC width and flatness are initially studied and the corresponding theoretical explanations are given. Particularly, we have analysed and compared the evolutions of the SC along DDF pumped by different chirp pulses. Several valuable conclusions are obtained.     

Flat Supercontinuum Generated in a Single-Mode Optical Fibre with a New Chromatic Dispersion Profile

A new chromatic dispersion profile of a single-mode optical fibre is proposed for generating a supercontinuum with a flatly broadened spectrum. The chromatic dispersion D(A, z) is a convex function of wavelengths and has no zero-dispersion wavelengths over the whole part of the fibre as D(A, z) is negative. It is shown that the flat supercontinuum spectrum is obtained when the pump wavelength is set in the vicinity of the wavelength at which the peak chromatic dispersion is near zero and the strong residual pump component is eliminated.