Joint scheme for symbol,sampling clock,and carrier frequency synchronization in PDM-CO-OFDM system beyond 100 Gb/s

We propose a joint scheme for symbol, sampling clock, and carrier frequency synchronization in a polarization division multiplexing coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing （PDM-CO-OFDM） system. Unlike other existing algorithms designed for specific impairment, the scheme can estimate and compensate for the interactional synchronization errors effectively without extra training overhead by building a comprehensive error model. The simulation shows that symbol synchronization error and sample timing error can be corrected by channel equalizer, and the estimation ranges of sampling frequency offset and normalized carrier frequency offset are about （-2000, 2000） ppm, and （-0.04 （-3.5）, 0.04 （3.5）） Ghz, respectively.     

基于数字相干叠加的相干光正交频分复用系统中光纤非线性容忍性研究

光正交频分复用系统中的光纤非线性效应制约着系统进一步的扩容. 针对此问题, 提出一种数字相干叠加的方法, 用于提高相干光正交频分复用系统对光纤非线性的容忍性. 仿真中, 5通道的波分复用下偏振复用相干光正交频分复用系统的每个通道传输四进制正交振幅调制映射的71.53 Gbit/s信号在光纤中传输400 km. 首先, 通道间隔为25 GHz, 与传统相干光正交频分复用系统相比, 色散补偿前后, 使用数字相干叠加的相干光正交频分复用系统的信噪比分别提升了6.02 dB和9.05 dB, 最佳入纤光功率均增大了2 dB; 其次, 通道间隔为50 GHz, 色散补偿前后, 信噪比分别提升了4.9 dB和8.75 dB. 通过理论推导及仿真, 验证了所提方法能有效消除相干光正交频分复用系统的一阶非线性失真, 进而提高系统对光纤非线性的容忍性.     

正交频分复用在水声通信中频率同步的研究

正交频分复用（OFDM）通信系统对频率偏移比较敏感，容易导致系统性能急剧下降。水声通信中存在着严重的多普勒频率偏移，限制了OFDM技术在水下的应用。本文仿真分析了频率偏移对OFDM系统的性能影响，提出了一种适用于水声通信的频率同步方法。本方法不仅可以对固定的频率偏移进行估计，也可以对连续变化的频率偏移进行估计。仿真表明，本方法具有较高的频偏估计精度和大的频偏估计范围。湖试结果也表明，采用这种方法可有效地进行频偏估计。     

强光注入提高光反馈VCSELs混沌载波基频

研究了外部光注入对光反馈垂直腔表面发射半导体激光器(VCSEL)混沌载波基频的影响.研究结果表明：当外部注入光频率与VCSEL自由运行的振荡频率失谐一定时,随着外部光注入强度的增加,混沌载波基频总体呈现上升的趋势;通过调整失谐频率和注入强度大小,外部光注入可以使混沌载波基频得到大幅度的提高;当归一化的注入系数K=330, 失谐频率为42 GHz,可得到基频位于47.3 GHz的混沌信号输出. 关键词： VCSEL 光注入 光反馈 混沌载波基频     

Demonstration of a HeNe/CH4-based optical molecular clock

We implement a simple optical clock based on the F2(2) [P(7), v3] optical transition in methane. A single femtosecond laser's frequency comb undergoes difference frequency generation to provide an IR comb at 3.39 microm with a null carrier-envelope offset. This IR comb provides a phase-coherent link between the 88-THz optical reference and the rf repetition rate. Comparison of the repetition rate signal with a second femtosecond comb stabilized to molecular iodine shows an instability of 1.2 x 10(-13) at 1 s, limited by microwave detection of the repetition rates. The single-sideband phase noise of the microwave signal, normalized to a carrier frequency of 1 GHz, is below -93 dBc/Hz at 1-Hz offset.     

Ultralow phase noise microwave generation with an Er:fiber-based optical frequency divider

We present an optical frequency divider based on a 200 MHz repetition rate Er:fiber mode-locked laser that, when locked to a stable optical frequency reference, generates microwave signals with absolute phase noise that is equal to or better than cryogenic microwave oscillators. At 1 Hz offset from a 10 GHz carrier, the phase noise is below -100 dBc/Hz, limited by the optical reference. For offset frequencies >10 kHz, the phase noise is shot noise limited at -145 dBc/Hz. An analysis of the contribution of the residual noise from the Er:fiber optical frequency divider is also presented.     

Optoelectronic oscillator using a LiNbO3 phase modulator for self-oscillating frequency comb generation

Optical frequency comb generation by using a novel optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) is proposed and demonstrated with the emphasis placed on self-oscillating operation. In the OEO, a wideband LiNbO3 phase modulator is driven with a large-amplitude radio-frequency (RF) feedback signal to generate a deeply phase-modulated light wave; accordingly, an optical frequency comb with a bandwidth greater than the RF signal is generated by self-oscillation. Although it generates multifrequency components, the OEO exhibits characteristics of a single-mode oscillator. Its operation is stable and self-starting. An optical frequency comb with a 120 GHz bandwidth and 9.95 GHz frequency spacing was successfully generated by self-oscillation at a single frequency.     

Octave-spanning Ti:sapphire laser with a repetition rate >1 ghz for optical frequency measurements and comparisons

We demonstrate a self-referenced, octave-spanning, mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser with a scalable repetition rate (550 MHz - 1.35 GHz). We use the frequency comb output of the laser, without additional broadening in optical fiber, for simultaneous measurements against atomic optical standards at 534, 578, 563, and 657 nm and to stabilize the laser offset frequency.     

Full stabilization of a microresonator-based optical frequency comb

We demonstrate control and stabilization of an optical frequency comb generated by four-wave mixing in a monolithic microresonator with a mode spacing in the microwave regime (86 GHz). The comb parameters (mode spacing and offset frequency) are controlled via the power and the frequency of the pump laser, which constitutes one of the comb modes. Furthermore, generation of a microwave beat note at the comb's mode spacing frequency is demonstrated, enabling direct stabilization to a microwave frequency standard.     

基于光注入Fabry-Perot半导体激光器实现同步全光分路时钟提取与波长转换

提出了一种利用Fabry-Perot（FP）半导体激光器同步提取波长转换的分路光时钟的新方法,并对该方法进行了数值模拟和实验验证.光注入半导体激光器会产生非线性单周期振荡特性,利用交叉增益调制效应及对单周期振荡的微波锁频效应,可从光时分复用信号中提取出波长转换的分路光时钟.采用一个FP半导体激光器作为全光分路时钟提取及波长转换器,数值模拟实现了从波长为1555 nm、速率为2×20 Gb/s的光时分复用信号中提取出波长转换为1550 nm、重复频率为20 GHz的分路光时钟,实验完成了从波长为155024 nm、重复频率为1236 GHz光脉冲信号中提取出相位噪声为-105 dBc/Hz的波长为154591 nm、重复频率618 GHz的分频光时钟.此外还详细研究了注入光功率、波长失谐、FP激光器偏置电流及纵模选择对光时钟提取的影响,实验结果和数值模拟结果符合.该方法在光时分复用混合波分复用通信系统中实现全光解复用及波长路由有着重要的应用价值. 关键词： 波长转换 时钟提取 光注入 非线性动力学     

Rapid updating of optical arbitrary waveforms via time-domain multiplexing

We demonstrate high-fidelity optical arbitrary waveform generation with 5 GHz waveform switching via time-domain multiplexing. Compact, integrated waveform shapers based on silica arrayed-waveguide grating pairs with 10 GHz channel spacing are used to shape (line-by-line) two different waveforms from the output of a 10-mode x 10 GHz optical frequency comb generator. Characterization of the time multiplexer's complex transfer function (amplitude and phase) by frequency-resolved optical gating permits compensation of its impact on the switched waveforms and matching of the measured and target waveforms to better than G'=5%.     

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.     

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。     

Phase-coherent link from optical to microwave frequencies by means of the broadband continuum from a 1-GHz Ti:sapphire femtosecondoscillator

An optical clockwork is created with a compact 1-GHz repetition-rate laser and three nonlinear crystals. The broadband continuum output of the laser covers sufficient bandwidth to provide direct access to its carrier-envelope offset frequency without the use of a microstructure fiber. We phase lock the femtosecond comb to a Ca optical standard and monitor the stability of the repetition rate, f(r) , at 1 GHz. We demonstrate that the short-term stability of the microwave output of the optical clock is at least as good as that of a high-performance hydrogen maser.     

An improved novel joint channel estimation algorithm for the 112 Gbit/s PDM CO-OFDM system

In this paper, an improved novel joint channel estimation algorithm is proposed for the 112 Gbit/s PDM CO-OFDM system. This method combines the advantages of the intra-symbol frequency domain averaging (ISFA) method and the time domain averaging (TA) method, which can realize more accuracy channel estimation. Simulation results show that this proposal could promise a relatively stable performance even under a rapidly time varying environment. It significantly outperforms the ISFA method by 2.2 dB when the DGD equals 1000 ps, and has the advantages of 0.5 dB over ISFA in considering the laser linewidth and frequency offset.     

微机械FP腔可调谐滤波器在WDM系统中的串扰分析

介绍了一种以FP谐振腔为基础,用于波分复用系统的MOEMS器件-电控可调谐FP光滤波器.器件采用微电子机械加工技术研制.研究了FP型解复用器在密集波分复用系统中引入的信道间串扰对系统的影响,并分别讨论了激光器线宽、滤波器带宽、信道间距对串扰的影响.在信道间隔为100GHz,激光器线宽为5GHz,串扰可达到-21dB左右.     

Experimental demonstration of 60 Gb/s optical OFDM transmissions at 1550 nm over 100 m OM1 MMF IMDD system with central launching

Record-high 60 Gb/s optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM) transmissions over intensity modulation and direct-detection(IMDD)-based 100 m optical mode(OM1) multi-mode fiber(MMF) links are experimentally demonstrated, utilizing 10 GHz electro-absorption modulated laser intensity modulators at a single 1550 nm wavelength. Adaptive bit loading and a simple central launching scheme of the proposed scheme show an effective way for combating the channel fading and simplifying the system structure. It shows good potential in short reach data center interconnections.     

Femtosecond-laser-based synthesis of ultrastable microwave signals from optical frequency references

We use femtosecond laser frequency combs to convert optical frequency references to the microwave domain, where we demonstrate the synthesis of 10-GHz signals having a fractional frequency instability of < or =3.5 x 10(-15) at a 1-s averaging time, limited by the optical reference. The residual instability and phase noise of the femtosecond-laser-based frequency synthesizers are 6.5 x 10(-16) at 1 s and -98 dBc/Hz at a 1-Hz offset from the 10-GHz carrier, respectively. The timing jitter of the microwave signals is 3.3 fs.     

A CMOS Low-Power Optical Front-End for 5 Gbps Applications

In this paper, a new low-power optical receiver front-end is proposed in 90 nm CMOS technology for 5 Gb/s AApplications. However, to improve the gain-bandwidth trade-off, the proposed Trans-Impedance Amplifier (TIA) uses an active modified inverter-based topology followed by a common-source amplifier, which uses active inductive peaking technique to enhance the frequency bandwidth in an increased gain level for a reasonable power consumption value. The proposed TIA is analyzed and simulated in HSPICE using 90 nm CMOS technology parameters. Simulation results show a 53.5dBΩ trans-impedance gain, 3.5 GHz frequency bandwidth, 16.8pA/√Hz input referred noise, and 1.28 mW of power consumption at 1V supply voltage. The Optical receiver is completed using three stages of differential limiting amplifiers (LAs), which provide 27 dB voltage gain while consume 3.1 mW of power. Finally, the whole optical receiver front-end consumes only 5.6 mW of power at 1 V supply and amplifies the input signal by 80 dB, while providing 3.7 GHz of frequency bandwidth. Finally, the simulation results indicate that the proposed optical receiver is a proper candidate to be used in a low-power 5 Gbps optical communication system.     

A novel scheme of optical pulse width compression using a feedback optical phase modulator

This paper presents a scheme for the compression of optical pulse widths by using a feedback optical phase modulator. In the first part of the proposed circuit, the carrier and two fourth-order sidebands on either side of the carrier are amplified and phase shifted before getting combined by an optical power combiner to generate a picosecond optical pulse. The optical pulse generated by this part of the circuit has a calculated width of 3.5 ps. This optical pulse when passed through a feedback optical phase modulator produces a compressed optical pulse at the output. By making the drive frequency of the feedback optical phase modulator equal to 100 GHz, we found the output optical pulse to have a calculated width of 1.0 ps. PACS 42.65.Re; 42.79.Sz; 42.62.-b; 42.30.Lr; 42.55.Px; 42.60.Fc; 42.70.Mp