A digital carrier synchronization module with high working frequency is indispensable for high-speed digital coherent optical receivers to recover the transmitted symbols. We proposed a method to increase the working frequency of the digital carrier synchronization (DCS) module based on the commonly used M’th power algorithms. Parallel architecture can increase the throughput of digital signal processing (DSP) modules for a given working frequency. pipelined architecture (PA) leads to a reduction in the critical path, and thus it can be exploited to increase the throughput of DSP modules by increasing the working frequency. It is demonstrated that in PA the working frequency is not limited by the computation time of the M’th power subfunction with the highest complexity because it is feedforward and thus pipelining registers can be introduced to reduce the critical path inside it. Instead, the phase unwrapping subfunction (PUS) becomes the bottleneck of the working frequency because it requires the immediately preceding result and cannot be implemented in PA, which results in the longest critical path among the DCS module. To solve this problem, we propose a feedforward look-up-table-based PUS design that can greatly reduce the critical path and increase the working frequency. Experimental DCS implementation in a Xilinx Virtex7 field programmable gate array shows that with this method the working frequency of the DCS module for quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) signals can be increased by 63.8%. Furthermore, using experimental and simulation data, it is demonstrated that the performance of the DCS module with increased working frequency is close to that of the off-line DCS algorithms for QPSK signals.
Based on the well-known simulation software VPI TransmissionMaker, a comprehensive training program for senior undergraduates majoring in optical communication and optical network technology was developed by the author after detailed study of the teaching difficult and key points in the discipline. Aiming at solving practical scientific and engineering problems, the program helped our students to develop the ability of acquiring and applying knowledge by designing optical devices, optical signal processing algorithms and optical fiber communication systems. Furthermore, innovation is inspired by introducing competition mechanism among project teams. The program was validated through four years of use and achieved good results.
This paper represents a power transfer function (PTF)-based chromatic dispersion (CD) monitoring method applicable to signals with different duty cycles and optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR). Our method relies on phase-mismatched four wave mixing to provide a steep PTF that maps the CD experienced by the signal onto the average power of the output signal. The steep PTF greatly enhances the monitoring sensitivity, thus solves the problem that former PTF-based methods cannot be applied to signals with high duty cycles and low OSNR because of low output contrast. Furthermore, because the optical power required is low, our method is optically efficient and easy-to-implement. Numerical simulations are then used to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of this monitoring method.
We propose the design method of fiber parametric wavelength converters based on dispersion-flattened photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) with two zero-dispersion wavelengths (ZDWs). Analytical expressions of the optimum signal frequency and maximal pump tuning range are deduced. By our method, the tuning ranges can be considerably broadened with a relatively low pump power and short fiber. This is because the fourth-order dispersion coefficient of two ZDW PCFs can be 1-2 orders of magnitude larger than those of one ZDW fiber and are effectively utilized to compensate the linear phase mismatch due to the second-order dispersion, resulting in a low phase mismatch for a widely tunable pump. To exemplify the effectiveness of our method, a PCF based on lead-silicate glasses with two ZDWs spaced 127-nm apart is presented. Numerical simulations show that based on this PCF a transparent wavelength conversion with a 117-nm pump tuning range can be achieved with only a 3.7-m-long fiber and 0.532 W pump power.
A novel semiconductor optical wavelength converter based on gain-clamping structure is proposed. It consists of paired
fiber Bragg gratings and tilted-waveguide SOA chip. And inverted wavelength conversion can be achieved by utilizing
direct optical modulation of gain-clamping lasing light, i.e. converted signal. Frequency chirp of converted signal is
numerically simulated, derived from single-mode rate equation and large-signal dynamic model. The results show that
the mode frequency shifts toward the blue side near the leading edge and toward the red side near the trailing edge of the
converted optical pulses. Parameters that affect frequency chirp, such as biased current, input optical power, extinction
ratio and wavelength of input signal, and length of active region, are analyzed respectively. It provides a theoretical basis
for improving the frequency chirp of converted signal.
Cross modulations such as cross polarization modulation, cross gain modulation, cross phase modulation are import nonlinear effects in semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). In this paper, the relationship among them is explored systematically; theoretical simulation is made based on a multi-section SOA model which takes into birefringence effect account, and the results agree well with experimental results. The linear relationship among cross gain modulation (in dB unit), cross phase modulation and cross polarization modulation is indicated. A more significant cross modulation effect is observed when pump wavelength is nearer to peak-gain wavelength region, while it becomes smaller when pump wavelength is more away from peak-gain region. No perceptible polarization state change of output probe beam is observed when the input polarization of pump beam is varied due to that the gain of the SOA is polarization insensitive.
In this paper a novel external cavity laser with interference filter as wavelength selective component is introduced. Effective reflection coefficient for compound cavity and static operation characteristics of the laser are analyzed theoretically. Experimental results show that precise wavelength lasing with side mode suppression ratio more than 40dB and spectral linewidth nearly 0.2 nm at -20dB is realized. And the wavelength stability of the laser is also dramatically improved.
An interleaving filter based on crystal waveplate (Yttrium Vanadate) is presented in the paper. The properties of its output spectra are analyzed through Fourier expansion. Numerical calculation shows that one stage of crystal waveplate only gives a cosine shape power transfer function, which is not able to meet the demand ofchannel passband in system. In order to get flattened transmission and rejection band, two stages of crystal waveplate of a special angle between optics axes is used. Length of the second stage waveplate is as two times as the first one's, and it brings a thrice harmonious in power transfer function which can improve the spectra to get a box-like frequency response. By use of Fourier expansion the performance of the output spectra is optimized to meet the demand of DWDM systems. Experimental results are in agreement with the theoretical analysis well.
In this paper, the temperature performance of Raman scattering spectrum in a data fiber was studied in theory and in experiment. The optimum system parameters were decided and a distributed fiber-optic temperature sensor (DFTS) system was developed. Theoretical and experimental analyses showed that the temperature response function of the DFTS system is much different from the actual one. A novel signal process method was put forward to improve the system precision. The results of the measurements show an apparent improvement in the performances of DFTS system. The temperature accuracy and the distance resolution reached to +/- 1 and +/- 1 m, respectively. The system is stable and adequate for commercial usage, such as the power industry, the underground tunnel, the subway, the pipe laying, and also for the mission applications, such as the warship and the airplane.
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