Design and Fabrication of Polarization-Independent Micro-Ring Resonators

Origin of polarization sensitivity of photonic wire waveguides （PWWs） is analysed and the effective refractive indices of two different polarization states are calculated by the three-dimensional full-vector beam propagation method. We find that PWWs are polarization insensitive if the distribution of its refractive index is uniform and the cross section is square. An MRR based on such a polarization-insensitive PWW is fabricated on an 8-inch silicon-on-insulator wafer using 248-nm deep ultraviolet lithography and reactive ion etching. The quasi-TE mode is resonant at 1542.25nm and 1558.90nm, and the quasi-TM mode is resonant at 1542.12nm and 1558.94nm. The corresponding polarization shift is 0. 13 nm at the shorter wavelength and 0.04 nm at the longer wavelength. Thus the fabricated device is polarization independent. The extinction ratio is larger than 10dB. The 3dB bandwidth is about 2.Snm and the Qvalue is about 620 at 1558.90nm.     

用于FTN系统的二阶导频辅助载波相位恢复算法

针对超奈奎斯特系统引入的码间干扰使载波相位估计难度增大的问题，提出了一种二阶电域导频辅助载波相位估计方案，将导频辅助相位噪声补偿模块与基于Viterbi的最大似然相位估计模块级联，牺牲约1.7%的带宽开销，可以有效克服超奈奎斯特系统引入的码间干扰，对激光器线宽导致的相位噪声进行准确估计。在调制格式为16进制正交幅度调制的超奈奎斯特系统中，经仿真验证可知：该算法在加速因子不超过Mazo极限时可以有效跟踪相位噪声；在加速因子低至0.833、误码率为2×10^-2、光信噪比代价为1 dB的条件下，该算法能容忍的最大线宽乘积为5×10^-4；相较于一阶导频辅助载波相位恢复算法，该算法具有更大的线宽容忍度，所需的光信噪比也更小。