Photonic vector signal generation employing a novel optical direct-detection in-phase/quadrature-phase upconversion

This work demonstrates the feasibility of the generation of an RF direct-detection vector signal using optical in-phase/quadrature-phase (I/Q) upconversion. The advantage of the proposed transmitter is that no electrical mixer is needed to generate the RF signal. Therefore, I/Q data of RF signals are processed at baseband at the transmitter, which is independent of the carrier frequency of the generated RF signal. A 10 Gb/s 16 quadrature amplitude modulation signal is experimentally demonstrated. Following transmission over a 50 km single-mode fiber, the power penalty is negligible. Moreover, I/Q imbalance of the proposed transmitter is studied and compensated by digital signal processing, which is both numerically and experimentally verified.     

基于高非线性光纤中四波混频饱和效应的NRZ-DPSK和RZ-DPSK信号幅度再生实验

利用高非线性光纤中的四波混频饱和效应,实验展示了42.8 Gbit/s非归零差分相移键控（NRZ-DPSK）信号和归零差分相移键控（RZ-DPSK）信号的全光幅度再生.测量了NRZ-DPSK信号和RZ-DPSK信号经过高非线性光纤的功率传递曲线.在平均输入功率均为16 dBm的条件下,对两种调制格式的再生性能进行了比较.实验结果显示RZ-DPSK信号具有更好的幅度再生性能.     

Frequency sextupling technique using two cascaded dual-electrode Mach–Zehnder modulators interleaved with Gaussian optical band-pass filter

A frequency sextupling technique for the generation of millimeter-wave (mm-wave) is proposed and investigated. The proposed technique is comprised of two cascaded dual-electrode Mach–Zehnder modulators (MZMs), which are interleaved with Gaussian optical band-pass filter (GOBF). The first MZM, biased at minimum transmission, is only used for optical carrier suppression modulation, and the second MZM, biased at maximum transmission, is used for both even-order optical harmonic generation and data signal modulation. The GOBF between two MZMs is used to suppress the high-order optical harmonics beyond the first-order optical harmonics. On the basis of theoretical analysis and simulated demonstrations, it is concluded that with the use of an RF signal at 10 GHz, which carries the data signal and drives the MZMs, an mm-wave signal at 60 GHz can be obtained. The simulation results show that the proposed sextuple leads to a 7 dB improvement in receiver sensitivity in comparison with the modulation technique, i.e. using two cascaded dual-electrode MZMs without GOBF. Furthermore, the eye diagrams show that the quality of generated mm-wave signal is satisfactory. The proposed technique is verified by experiments.     

All-optical demultiplexing of 4-ASK optical signals with four-wave mixing optical gates

A new all-optical technique to demultiplex quaternary-amplitude-shift keying (4-ASK) signals into two on-off keying (OOK) signals is proposed. We show that such quaternary-to-binary conversion may be performed with two types of optical gates (OGs); a first one that implements an S-shaped optical power transfer function (TF), which is also the characteristic TF of optical pulse reshaping devices, and a second type that implements a U-shaped TF. Furthermore, we describe a heuristic approach to design such OGs by using the fiber four-wave mixing effect in highly non-linear dispersion-shifted fibers. The performance of the technique is evaluated by simulating the demultiplexing of 4-ASK signals with these OGs. Results indicate that the proposed devices are able to provide binary signals with acceptable BERs even after the 4-ASK signals are propagated through a cascade of eight fiber links of 50 km followed by optical amplifiers with a 4.5-dB noise figure.     

Linear and nonlinear distortion effects in direct detection 40 Gb/s MSK modulation formats multi-span optically amplified transmission

The generation of minimum shift keying (MSK) requires a linear variation of the phase, hence a constant frequency of the optical carrier. However, the generation of the optical phase may be preferred by driving an optical modulator using sinusoidal signal for practical implementation. Thus a nonlinear variation of the carrier phase, hence some distortion effects are produced. In this paper, we investigate the use of linear and nonlinear phase shaping filtering and their impacts on MSK modulated optical signals transmission over optically amplified long haul communications system. The evolution of the phasor of the in-phase and quadrature components is illustrated for lightwave-modulated signal transmission. The distinct features of three different MSK modulation formats: linear MSK, weakly nonlinear MSK and strongly nonlinear MSK and their transmission are simulated. Transmission performance obtained indicates the resilience of the MSK signals in transmission over multi-optically amplified multi-spans.     

Simulation research of medium-short distance free-space optical communication with optical amplification based on polarization shift keying modulation

Circular polarization shift keying (CPolSK) modulation technique has many advantages such as excellent BER performance and freedom from the alignment of polarization coordinates of the transmitter and the receiver, etc., and it turns out to be a good choice to FSO system. In this paper, a FSO system using CPolSK modulation is studied by simulation; it is found that the communication performance of the system is excellent in most weather condition. Additionally, three ways of optical signal amplification are proposed, and contrastive analysis on performance of corresponding optical amplification systems is carried out by examining SNR、BER and transmission distance with different specific attenuation. The results show that the system with optical amplifier at the transmitter have the optimum performance, and then the system with optical amplifier at the both ends with the same total gain, it is worst for the system with optical amplifier at the receiver. In addition, the safety factor for high emission power induced by optical amplification is also considered in this paper for practical application. The study above may be utilized in the system design for enhancing performance.     

Signal restoration in intensity-modulated optical OFDM access systems

It is well known that deliberate signal clipping in an intensity-modulated (IM) laser transmitter helps to overcome the optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system performance limitation that is related to the signal high peak-to-average power ratio. The amplitude of a clipped OFDM signal has to be optimized in order to minimize the optical power that is required to achieve a specified system performance. However, the signal clipping introduces nonlinear distortion (so-called clipping noise) and leads to a system performance penalty. In this Letter, the performance of the IM optical OFDM system with digital baseband clipping distortion in the transmitter and clipping noise compensation by means of signal restoration in the digital signal processing unit of the system receiver is analytically evaluated. It is demonstrated that the system bit-error ratio can be reduced by more than an order of magnitude, from 10(-3) to 3.5×10(-5), by applying only the first iteration of the signal restoration algorithm proposed in this Letter. The results of the analytical analysis are verified with brute-force numerical simulations based on direct error counting.     

光子型远程分布式微波信号接收码元速率估计

基于光子学技术,设计了一种针对远程分布式微波信号接收的码元速率估计方案。首先,远程终端将接收的微波信号经电光调制器对连续激光源进行载波抑制双边带调制,生成携带微波信号的两个光边带信号;此光信号经光纤链路传输至中心站在光域滤除其中一个边带;其次,进行光电探测,通过分析电频谱的谐波实现微波信号码元速率估计。针对此方案,搭建仿真及实验系统装置:仿真成功地从60 GHz微波信号中提取出0.8 GBaud和6 GBaud的二进制伪随机码(PRBS)信号码元速率、从25 GHz微波信号中提取出3GBaud的PRBS码元速率;实验成功地从25 GHz的微波信号中提取出3 GBaud和5 GBaud的PRBS码元速率。     

Photonic instantaneous microwave frequency measurement based on two different phase modulation to intensity modulation conversions

A novel photonic technique for instantaneous frequency measurement of microwave signal based on phase modulation to intensity modulation conversion is proposed and demonstrated. In the proposed system, an optical carrier is modulated by a microwave signal with its frequency to be measured through a phase modulator. The phase-modulated optical signal is then converted to intensity-modulated signals in two independent paths using a dispersive media and a frequency discriminator respectively. Since the dependence of the received microwave power on the input microwave frequency in the two paths differs, the microwave power ratio between the two paths can be used to uniquely determine the microwave frequency. The major advantages of the approach lie in that only one laser source and the bias-free phase modulator is employed in the system, which improves the stability of the system. Experimental demonstrations of the frequency measurement based on the proposed approach are presented.     

Improvement of switching properties and cascadability of an ultra-fast reconfigurable optical crosspoint switch matrix using DPSK payloads

In this paper, we demonstrate mitigation of pattern-induced degradation in an optical crosspoint switch (OXS) matrix by utilizing differential phase shift keying (DPSK) modulation format. We experimentally demonstrate 4 × 4 unicast optical packet switching and dynamic reconfiguration for 4-channel, 200 GHz spacing of RZ-DPSK payloads. Reconfigurable time as fast as 2 ns is achieved owing to the optimized control circuit and device fabrication. The power and wavelength dependence are obtained for the RZ-DPSK payload. We also investigate the cascadability of the OXS based on re-circulating loops. Due to the great suppression of the pattern effect in OXS, DPSK has shown dramatical improvement of switching properties compared to conventional ON-OFF keying (OOK) signal. The DPSK payload can outperform OOK for 3.2 dB after 9 hops optical switching.     

Performance comparison of wavelength shift keying WDM system and conventional on-off WDM system in presence of four-wave mixing

Performance of wavelength shift keying (WSK) wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) system is analyzed and compared to that of conventional on-off keying (OOK) WDM system in respect of four-wave mixing (FWM) effect. WSK technique employs symmetric wavelength assignment and balanced detection to cancel FWM interference to first order. WSK–WDM outperforms conventional OOK–WDM at all signal levels and permits higher allowable input power, lower power penalty and higher transmission distance for a given bit-error rate of 10⁻⁹. WSK–WDM is also found to be noise resistant.     

Frequency-octupled phase-coded signal generation based on carrier-suppressed high-order double sideband modulation

An approach for photonic generation of a frequency-octupled phase-coded signal based on carrier-suppressed high-order double sideband modulation is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The key component of the scheme is an integrated dual-polarization quadrature phase shift keying modulator, which is used to achieve the carrier-suppressed high-order double sideband modulation. At the output of the modulator, two fourth-order optical sidebands are generated with the optical carrier suppressed. After that, a Sagnac loop incorporating a fiber Bragg grating and a phase modulator is employed to separate the two optical sidebands and phase modulate one sideband with a binary coding signal. The approach features large carrier frequency tuning range for the generated phase-coded signal from several megahertz to beyond the W-band. A proof-of-concept experiment is carried out. The 2 Gbit/s phase-coded signals with frequencies of 16.48, 21.92, and 29.76 GHz are generated.     

A filterless optical millimeter-wave generation based on frequency octupling

A novel method of a filterless optical millimeter-wave (MMW) signal generation with frequency octupling using four nested Mach–Zehnder modulators (MZMs) is proposed for Radio-over-fiber systems. By symmetrically biasing the MZMs and using two RF driving signals with 90 deg phase delay, a cost-effective, high-quality and filterless optical millimeter-wave at 80 GHz with an optical harmonic distortion suppression ratio exceeding 40 dB is obtained. The proposed system is insensitive to the MZM bias drift, which demonstrates a relatively higher stability. So it is a viable solution for the future ultra-high frequency MMW applications.     

Generation, detection and characterization of optical minimum shift keying data format

This paper presents the detailed principle on the generation and detection of optical minimum shift keying (MSK) format for high-speed and high spectral efficiency WDM systems. 10.7 Gb/s optical MSK data is successfully generated by experiment using the proposed scheme. The results show that optical MSK signal exhibits very compact optical spectrum, which is promising for high spectral efficiency WDM applications. Simulation results on dispersion and nonlinear tolerance comparison confirm that MSK signal has better dispersion tolerance and nonlinear tolerance compared with 50% duty cycle return-to-zero differential phase shift keying (RZ-DPSK) and 50% duty cycle RZ on-off-keying (RZ-OOK) formats.     

Photon Generation Scheme of 32-Fold Millimeter-Wave Signal Based on Mach-Zehnder Modulator

This paper proposes a 32-tupling frequency millimeter-wave (MMW) filter-free system based on four Mach-Zehnder Modulators (MZM) connected in parallel and cascaded with a simple radio-fiber (RoF) link structure. The four MZMs are all at the maximum transmission point (MATP), and the radio frequency (RF) driving voltage phase difference between MZMs is π /2. The center carrier is suppressed by using an optical attenuator (OATT) and an optical phase shifter (OPS). Two parallel MZMs can generate ±8th order and ±12th order optical sidebands, and the ±4th order optical sidebands can be suppressed by adjusting the modulation index m of the MZM, using cascaded two dual-parallel MZMS(DPMZM) and the phase difference of the RF signal source is π/4 to generate ±16th order optical sidebands. The theoretical analysis and simulation experiments are performed for the scheme proposed in this paper. The results show that the simulated and theoretical values of the optical sideband suppression ratio (OSSR) for ±16th order optical sideband signals are 60.02 and 59.96 dB, respectively, and the simulated and theoretical values of the RF sideband suppression ratio (RFSSR) for the 32-tupling MMW signal are 56.34 and 53.94 dB, respectively.     

Multi-functional fibre-optic microwave links

The multi-functionality of microwave links based on remote heterodyne detection of signals from a dual-frequency laser transmitter is discussed and experimentally demonstrated in this paper. Typically, direct detection in conjunction with optical intensity modulation is used to implement fibre-optic microwave links. The resulting links are inherently transparent and mainly used for signal transmission. As opposed to direct detection links, remote heterodyne detection links can directly perform functionalities such as modulation, frequency conversion, and transparent signal recovery in addition to signal transmission. All three functionalities are presented and experimentally demonstrated with a remote heterodyne detection link based on a dual-frequency laser transmitter with two offset phase locked semiconductor lasers. In the modulating link a 1Gbit/s baseband signal is QPSK modulated onto a 9GHz RF carrier. The frequency converting link demonstrates up-conversion of a 100Mbit/s PSK signal from a 2GHz carrier to a 9GHz carrier with penalty-free transmission over 25km of optical fibre. Finally, the transparent signal recovering link transmits a standard FM video 7.6GHz radio-link signal over 25km of optical fibre without measurable distortion.     

Impact of higher order dispersion on Photonically assisted optical millimeter-wave generated using dual parallel electro-optic modulators

In this work, Author investigated the impact of higher order fiber dispersion terms upto third order (3OD) on optical mm-wave generated using two parallel Mach Zehnder Modulators (MZMs). Individual and combined effect of the second order- (2OD) and third order-(3OD) is studied theoretically and experimentally. Expression of fiber dispersion for proposed model is derived using the method of expansion of Bessel function & Taylor series theory. Effect of RF-driven voltage applied to MZM is discussed and analyzed for Optical Sideband Suppression Ratio (OSSR) and Radio Frequency Spurious Suppression Ratio (RFSSR). The Q-factor, Bit Error Rate (BER) and Eye pattern are investigated for ITU's G.655 fiber. Experimental and simulation analysis verified the theoretical analysis.     

Optically controlled loop buffer using a SOA loop mirror and a circulator based reflector

In this paper, an optically controlled loop buffer is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. It utilizes a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) based loop mirror as a fast switch to realize the writing and reading of packets within this buffer and a circulator based optical reflector to achieve internal re-circulations. By adding fibers with different lengths between the loop mirror and the circulator, variable delay time per circulations can be obtained. We also demonstrate the performance of the 2.5 and 10 Gb/s data packets in this buffer structure, as well as the influence of the two different control signal formats on the packet signal degradation during buffering. This loop buffer has the merits of low cost and improved performance compared to other similar loop buffer structures. According to the obtained results, the achieved number of circulations is greatly increased.     

Signal remodulation without power sacrifice for carrier distributed hybrid WDM-TDM PONs using PolSK

Signal remodulation is considered to lower the cost of future WDM-PON by wavelength reuse. We propose and demonstrate a signal remodulation scheme using PolSK modulation in both downstream and upstream signals for “colorless” WDM-PON. High extinction-ratio can be achieved in both downstream and remodulated upstream signals; hence power sacrifice of using residual optical power in downstream signal for the upstream remodulation is eliminated. Split-ratio analysis is performed for the hybrid WDM-TDM architecture. Results show that the proposed scheme could be a potential candidate for next generation wavelength reuse WDM-TDM PON.     

一种新的自由空间光通信调制方式——圆偏振位移键控

自由空间光通信(FSO)在开放的大气链路中传输光信号, 不可避免地会受到大气扰动和背景光噪声的影响, 导致系统的可靠性降低。为了抑制大气扰动等对FSO系统造成的不利影响, 提出一种新的光信号调制方式——圆偏振位移键控(CPOLSK)。该调制方式利用圆偏振光的两种旋光状态进行数据的传送, 接收端结合差分方法进行光信号接收。给出了CPOLSK的装置模型, 并对其性能进行了分析。与目前广泛采用的开关键控(OOK)、脉冲位置调制(PPM)方式相比, CPOLSK很好地抑制了背景光噪声的影响, 同时对光电探测器内部噪声也有一定的抑制效果。