Integrated optical fiber data link transmitter/receiver for local area network application

Optical fiber data link transmitters and receivers have been developed for local area network applications. The features are of wide-bit-rate range and wide dynamic range as well as compact and of highly reliable construction. State-of-the-art LSI technology has been applied for the circuit electronics integration. Design emphasis was also placed on the optical connector development for ease of operation as well as reliable connection and compact size.

The data link transmitter and receiver developed utilize an AlGaAs light-emitting diode and a Si PIN photodiode as the light source and detector, respectively. Performance data were obtained for a bit rate range of dc to 35 Mbps and an 18-dB dynamic range.     

Single-wavelength-pump bi-directional hybrid fiber amplifier for bi-directional local area network application

This paper proposes a novel bi-directional hybrid fiber amplifier using a single-wavelength pump laser diode (LD) at 1495 nm. The hybrid amplifier is theoretically applied in a 50 km bi-directional local area network (LAN) with 26 ch × 10 Gb/s for bi-directional transmission. Thirteen C-band channels serve as downlink signals while the other 13 L-band channels are employed as uplink signals. Without loss of generality, four channels (two from each band) are experimentally analyzed. Erbium doped fiber (EDF) provides amplification for the C-band channels and Raman amplification amplifies the L-band channels. The pump efficiency is improved by employing a double-pass scheme for both the Erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) and Raman fiber amplifier (RFA). The chromatic dispersion incurred by all the channels is precisely compensated for by inserting a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) array in appropriate locations along the dispersion compensating fiber (DCF) segments. Moreover, gain equalization of all the channels is achieved by adjusting the FBG reflectivity. Both the simulation results and experimental measurements confirm the proposed device feasibility and potential application in a bi-directional LAN.     

Optimizing receiver and transmitter layout in optical wireless multi spot configuration access link

The study of indoor optical wireless (OW) environment is complicated by the difficulty of obtaining accurate impulse response for a large number of transmitter/receiver locations. An accurate impulse response for a given receiver location requires not only direct path, but also reflections up to nth order. The impulse response obtained is only valid for a specific location and for specific receiver parameters. If a receiver moves, the impulse response has to be recalculated. In this paper, we utilize an efficient approach for calculating optical wireless channel to study the optimal region of transmitters and receivers in a multi spot diffusing configuration. This paper takes advantage of an efficient calculation technique to study the optimal layout of receiver locations and transmitter locations in multi spot diffusing environment. Received power and delay spread are used as metrics to optimize receiver and transmitter layouts.     

光纤数据链路模拟器设计

为分析光纤制导导弹飞行中光纤信道变化情况,满足导弹动静态仿真需求,设计了一种能够模拟光纤数据链路传输损耗特性的装置。研究内容包括建立系统传输损耗的动态、静态模型。利用光模拟器实现导弹飞行中可能遇到的信道干扰、数据延迟、动态损耗等情况。实验结果表明,光信号干扰的变化范围达到-50 dBm～-40 dBm,光信号的传输延迟范围为16.65 s～99.9 s,模拟器动态损耗调整范围为0 dBm～50 dBm,可用于验证导弹光纤传输系统的性能。     

An optical receiver for eight-level data communication over step index plastic optical fiber

An optical receiver with automatic-gain-control transimpedance amplifier, linear post amplifier and linear line driver suitable for multilevel signals is presented. A large-diameter photodiode (400 μm) with an antireflection coating optimized for red light was integrated. These features enable the presented optical receiver to be a promising plastic optical fiber receiver. An error free (<10⁻⁸) 400 Mbit/s data rate over 50 m PMMA-step index plastic optical fiber (1 mm diameter) is achieved with eight-level pulse amplitude modulation (8-PAM).     

Integrated optical receiver for indoor wireless gigabit communication

A receiver with a monolithically integrated PIN photodiode in 0.5 μm BiCMOS technology has been developed for establishing an indoor 1.25 Gb/s optical wireless communication over a distance of 3.2 m using 180 μW of optical power.     

Integrated receiver architectures for board-to-board free-space optical interconnects

In many computer and server communications copper cables and wires are currently being used for data transmission and interconnects. However, due to significant shortcomings, such as long transmission time, high noise level, unstable electrical properties, and high power consumption for cooling, researchers are increasingly turning their research interests toward alternatives, such as fiber optic interconnects and free-space optical communication technologies. In this paper, we present design considerations for an integrated receiver for high-speed free-space line-of-sight optical interconnects for distortion-free data transmission in an environment with mechanical vibrations and air turbulences. The receiver consists of an array of high-speed photodiodes for data communication and an array of quadrant photodiodes for real-time beam tracking in order to compensate for the beam misalignment caused by vibrations in servers. Different configurations for spatially positioning the quadrant and data photodiodes are discussed for 4×4 and 9×9 multielement optical detector arrays. We also introduce a new beam tracking device, termed the strip quadrant photodiodes, in order to accurately track highly focused optical beams with very small beam diameter.     

High-speed optical digital transmitter/receiver module operating at 1.3 μm wavelength

Taking benefit of optical fibers' wide bandwidth and low attenuation, research and development were conducted in order to apply fiber optics to public telecommunications' networks mainly for long-distance and large-capacity transmissions. However, application of fiber has rapidly spread toward cornrnunication networks having relatively short transmission distances (within several kilometers) such as local area networks (LAN) and computer networks. Thus, requirements for the fiber optic transmitters and receivers used as electro-optic transducers, such as small-size, low-price, high-reliability and low-supply voltage operations, become stricter than those of the public telecommunication network.     

A vision chip with column-level amplification of optical data signals for indoor optical wireless local area networks

We present a vision chip architecture with column-level photo-amplification of optical data signals for optical wireless local area networks (LANs) to reduce the pixel area. Based on the architecture, we have fabricated a prototype vision chip in a standard 0.8 μm bipolar complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (BiCMOS) technology. The device offers position detection of other optical transceivers in the LAN and 4-ch concurrent high-speed optical data acquisition. A data rate of 400 Mbps was demonstrated. The pixel size was 125 μm square, which can be shrunk to smaller than around 60 μm square in 0.35 μm or more advanced BiCMOS or CMOS technologies.     

基于数据挖掘的光纤通信网络异常数据检测研究

为了提高光纤通信网络中异常数据的识别能力,提出了基于熵目标函数最优化的异常数据检测算法。首先,对数据样本进行属性分类,依据异常数据特征密度指标完成邻域区间半径的选取;其次,通过对高阶统计量的大数据聚类度循环迭代,完成特征提取参数的优化;最后,由样本属性概率计算熵目标函数的最优值,并利用最优值完成异常数据检测。实验对1 000组通信数据进行测试,结果显示,该算法的检测精度均值约为95.7%,其数据融合率、检测耗时与平均误检率均优于2种传统方法。该算法具有精度高、收敛快、误检率低的优势,具有一定的应用价值。     

Wavelength and beam launching effects on silica optical fiber in local area networks

In this paper, we report the modal dispersion of silica graded-index optical fibers as a function of the input mode parameters and lunching conditions in local area network (LAN) context. In that, we examine the mode-depending parameters, namely, modal delay, modal attenuation and mode-coupling effects as a function of wavelength. We show that the number of excited mode groups depends strongly on the spot beam radius when the fiber is excited with an axial Gaussian beam where we find an optimal axial diameter exciting only two mode groups. We present a comparison of the number of excited mode groups, the optimal spot radius beam, the signal penalty and the 3-dB baseband bandwidth enhancement for the optimal axial launching compared with full mode excitation, offset launching and mode-field matched axial launching.     

High-speed bridges for fiber optic local area networks

Progress in optical fiber communications allows ever-increasing channel capacity for local area networks (LANs). However, there are still many problems to solve with respect to bridges interconnecting these LANs, which constitute a system bottleneck. To eliminate the bridge bottleneck in the interconnection of fiber optic LANs, a high-speed bridge using optical technology is proposed. The proposed optical bridge uses bistable optical devices, such as interference filters, as essential components of its design. As these devices can be easily fabricated, the implementation of this optical bridge is feasible.     

A data broadband fiber for local access systems

This article focuses on the application of optical fiber technology to meet the needs of local network communication systems. To put the technology in perspective, a brief evolution of fiber optics is provided. The evolution resulted in wide acceptance of fiber optics in telephony applications. Also reviewed is the impact of fiber on local networks, fiber optic components, emerging LAN (local area network) system trends, and the most cost-effective fiber for use in local network applications.     

A data broadband fiber for local access systems

This article focuses on the application of optical fiber technology to meet the needs of local network communication systems. To put the technology in perspective, a brief evolution of fiber optics is provided. The evolution resulted in wide acceptance of fiber optics in telephony applications. Also reviewed is the impact of fiber on local networks, fiber optic components, emerging LAN (local area network) system trends, and the most cost-effective fiber for use in local network applications.     

Coherent optical frequency transfer via 972-km fiber link

We demonstrate coherent optical frequency dissemination over a distance of 972 km by cascading two spans where the phase noise is passively compensated for. Instead of employing a phase discriminator and a phase locking loop in the conventional active phase control scheme, the passive phase noise cancellation is realized by feeding double-trip beat-note frequency to the driver of the acoustic optical modulator at the local site. This passive scheme exhibits fine robustness and reliability, makin...     

A secure transmission scheme on link level for optical fiber communication systems

In secure communication systems, a very important problem is how to prevent wiretapping. Lots of researches on cryptography give good solutions on secure communications. But if a wire tapper can detect the existence of the transmitted information and get enough eavesdropped frames, cryptanalysis techniques can help to blindly recover the frame structures, error-control coding parameters and passwords. In this paper we propose a novel secure transmission scheme on the link level for optical fiber communication systems. Based on the blind frame synchronization technique, we propose to drop the traditionally strict frame structures in fiber communications and conceal the error-correcting-encoded blocks among random data, so that wire tappers cannot get enough coded packets to analyze and recover the transmitted information. Therefore, the proposed method is very suitable for secure communications and military communications.     

Giga-bit optical receiver for plastic optical fibre

An optical receiver with high sensitivity and linearity specially designed for Giga-bit communications over small-bandwidth high-attenuation multimode plastic optical fiber is presented. An automatic gain control transimpedance amplifier and linear post amplifiers are used to maintain a good performance with multilevel modulation. Using multilevel signaling and large-diameter integrated photodiodes make the presented optical receiver suitable for large core plastic optical fiber. For a wavelength of 675 nm, a sensitivity of −26.3 dB m (BER = 10⁻⁹) at 500 Mb/s is presented by a binary signal. A data rate of 1 Gb/s and a sensitivity of −19.8 dB m (BER = 10⁻⁹) are achieved with four-level pulse amplitude modulation.     

All-optical network interface from backbone networks to local area networks based on semiconductor optical amplifiers

We report on the experimental and numerical investigations of an all-optical network interface from back- bone networks to local area networks based on semiconductor optical amplifiers （SOAs）. All-optical signals at 40 Gbps with return-to-zero （RZ） format in backbone networks are demultiplexed to signals at 10 Gbps with nonreturn-to-zero （NRZ） format in local area networks. SOAs and optical band-pass filters are used in the optical interface. We study the waveform, optical spectrum, and bit error rate （BER） of the interface scheme based on the experimental and numerical simulation results. The interface technique can be used in variable length and bit-rate variable optical networks.     

Realization of optoelectronic integrated transmitter and receiver for POF Applications

The optoelectronic integrated transmitter and receiver for 650 nm plastic optical fiber (POF) communication applications realized in 0.5 μm BCD (Biplor, CMOS and DMOS) process is first described in this paper. The 650 nm resonant cavity light emitting diode (RCLED) is used as light source. It is first proposed for optoelectronic integration of the transmitter by bonding RCLED to the driver chip. Temperature compensation technology is employed in the driver circuit to compensate for the modulation current. In the monolithic optoelectronic integrated receiver, large area multi-finger PIN photodetector (PD) that is compatible with standard IC process, transimpedance amplifier and post amplifier are presented. Measurement results show that the responsivity and capacitance of PD is 0.25 A/W and 5 pF, respectively. The sensitivity of receiver is −14.6 dBm at 180 Mb/s and BER is less than 10⁻⁹ for 650 nm input light by POF. A clear eye diagram is demonstrated for 180 Mb/s PRBS. These indicate that optoelectronic integrated chips can be employed in high-speed POF-based Fast Ethernet systems for broadband access network applications.