Effects of pattern dependence on high-power polarization-division-multiplexing applications

High-power polarization-division-multiplexing (PDM) systems or functional modules, such as self-phase-modulation (SPM)-based all-optical regenerators, cross-phase-modulation (XPM)-based wavelength convertors or format convertors, all-optical logical gate, and so on, may suffer from the effects of pattern dependence. Such effects are experimentally investigated using relative time delay variation between bit sequences with orthogonal polarization states in a 2 × 10.65 Gb/s high-power on-off keying (OOK) PDM system. Eye-diagram-based signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and bandwidth of broadened spectrum are measured and compared. An eye-diagram-based SNR fluctuation of up to 4 dB may occur as the delay changes.     

Low power penalty tunable slow light using vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser amplifier

A tunable slow light of 2.5-Gb/s pseudo-random binary sequence signal using a 1550-nm vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) is experimentally demonstrated. The influences of the bias current and the gain saturation on the slow light are investigated. With bias current increasing, tunable optical group delay up to 98 ps is obtained at room temperature. Demonstration of the time delay between 16 and 24 ps by signal intensity change is reported. Under an appropriate bias current, by tuning the input signal to track the peak gain wavelength of the VCSEL, slow light of a power penalty as low as 1 dB is achieved. With such a low power penalty, the VCSEL has a great potential application as a compact optical buffer.     

基于布里渊载波相移的宽带可调谐二倍频微波信号生成

本文提出并实验验证了一种基于光纤中受激布里渊散射效应的光子二倍频微波信号生成技术.利用布里渊增益谱内的强色散特性,对光强度调制器产生的双边带调制信号的载波进行π/2相移,可实现载波与±1阶边带拍频仅生成二倍频微波信号.由于光纤中受激布里渊散射的窄带特性以及仅对双边带调制信号的载波进行相移,不影响调制信号两个边带的幅值和相位,因而生成的二倍频微波信号可实现宽带调谐,调谐范围仅受其他光器件的工作带宽限制.此外,信号光和产生受激布里渊散射的抽运光均来自同一光源,因而不受波长漂移的影响,系统具良好的稳定性.     

垂直腔面发射激光器的饱和效应对慢光延时影响的研究

通过理论和实验研究了1550 nm量子阱垂直腔面发射激光器(QW-VCSEL) 的饱和效应对2.5 Gbps二进制伪随机序列(PRBS)慢光延时的影响. 利用Fabry-Perot腔边界条件结合光场分布, 推导出VCSEL中信号相位和延时表达式, 并结合速率方程, 建立信号功率与延时之间的联系. 实验研究了在VCSEL逐渐达到饱和状态过程中PRBS信号的延时时间和眼图的变化情况. 理论和实验结果表明, 由于受饱和效应的影响, 大功率信号在VCSEL中传输得到更好的信号质量, 但以牺牲延迟时间为代价. 为了获得较大的时延, 一方面需要控制信号功率, 其次还需要调节信号波长以追踪由于饱和效应导致的VCSEL峰值增益波长的变化轨迹. 关键词： 慢光延时 垂直腔面发射激光器 饱和效应     

An all-optical polarization monitoring scheme for polarization division multiplexed transmission

A novel polarization monitoring scheme for polarization division multiplexed (PDM) systems is proposed. By using a tag light transmitted in different but close wavelength to the data signal as the feedback control, the scheme can demultiplex automatically two orthogonal polarizations in PDM systems. The effectiveness of the scheme is demonstrated experimentally in a 2×10-Gb/s on-off-keying (OOK) PDM transmission system.     

偏振复用相干光纤通信系统中的自适应色散监测

针对长距离相干光纤通信系统,提出了一种超大色散(CD)监测范围的两级自适应高精度色散估计算法。该算法利用信号功率自相关波形(ACSPW)函数作为粗估计,再使用恒模误差函数(CMA)中心值搜索,得到精确色散值。仿真结果表明,新算法色散估计误差小于35ps/nm,比传统ACSPW算法精度提高将近4倍;在参考误码率为10-2时,对比传统ACSPW算法,提出的算法功率罚改善8dB。     

基于强度调制/直接探测系统的偏振解复用方法

针对强度调制/直接探测(IM/DD)系统,采用一种改进型光分路器结合数字信号处理(DSP)算法,实现了一种简单有效的偏振解复用方法。仿真结果表明,在2×40Gb/s的偏振复用强度调制/直接探测(PDM-IM/DD)系统中,该方法能够较好地分离两路偏振复用信号,并且算法收敛迅速,与传统IM/DD系统相比,误码率为10-4时对应的功率灵敏度仅为-2.3dBm。     

基于线型卡尔曼滤波器的双偏振并行载波相位恢复算法

针对偏振复用16阶正交幅度调制(16QAM)传输系统(PDM-16QAM),基于线型卡尔曼滤波器,提出了一种计算复杂度更低、线宽容忍度更高的双偏振并行载波相位恢复算法,使用两个偏振态内环和外环的符号信息对两个偏振态同时进行相位噪声估计。仿真结果表明,在传输速率为224Gb/s传输速率下,本文算法相比于单偏振卡尔曼滤波器算法的线宽容忍度提高了7倍,由原来的400kHz提高至2800kHz。此外,相比于单偏振卡尔曼滤波器载波相位恢复算法,本文算法并行处理符号个数提升了4倍左右,有效提高了算法的实时性,但是复杂度有所降低。最后,在传输速率为224Gb/s的PDM-16QAM传输实验中对本文算法进行了验证。     

Flexible polarization demultiplexing method based on an adaptive process noise covariance Kalman filter

A flexible polarization demultiplexing method based on an adaptive Kalman filter(AKF) is proposed in which the process noise covariance has been estimated adaptively. The proposed method may significantly improve the adaptive capability of an extended Kalman filter(EKF) by adaptively estimating the unknown process noise covariance. Compared to the conventional EKF, the proposed method can avoid the tedious and time consuming parameter-by-parameter tuning operations. The effectiveness of this method is confirmed experimentally in 128 Gb/s 16 QAM polarization-division-multiplexing(PDM) coherent optical transmission systems. The results illustrate that our proposed AKF has a better tracking accuracy and a faster convergence(about 4 times quicker)compared to a conventional algorithm with optimal process noise covariance.