A novel photonic technique of 60-GHz millimeter-wave subcarrier generation base on four-wave mixing effect in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) and a dual-frequency Brillouin fiber laser configuration is proposed. In this system, two new harmonic components with six times spacing of the microwave source frequency are created when an optical signal, generated by carrier-suppressed intensity modulation, is launched into the SOA. The two residual modulation sidebands are then suppressed by stimulated Brillouin scattering process, and the leaved idlers provide an millimeter-wave subcarrier signal.
A time- and wavelength-interleaved optical pulse source, which is based on spectral slicing and dispersion management, is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The pulse source has a simple configuration, and both the repetition rate and the wavelength channels can be tuned easily.
A time- and wavelength-interleaved optical pulse source, which is based on spectral slicing and dispersion management,
is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The pulse source has a simple configuration, and both the repetition rate
and the wavelength channels can be tuned easily.
A fast and accurate polarization control and stabilization system, which is based on coordinate system transformation, is
experimentally demonstrated. The typical control speed is 50-ms and the output SOP precision is 0.5°.
A time- and wavelength-interleaved (T- W-interleaved) optical pulse source based on optoelectronic oscillator is
presented. By utilizing spectral slicing, a multi-loop configuration is formed in OEO system, which can effectively
suppress side-modes. In addition, this configuration is able to generate multi-wavelength optical pluses which can be
arranged T- W-interleaved optical pulse stream at different nodes. In this system, 10-ps-wide optical pulses at 5GHz
repetition rate are generated with 1ps timing jitter (in the 100Hz-1MHz range) and -100dBc/Hz spurious modes
suppression, Along with the optical outputs, 5GHz electrical signal with low phase noise (-113dBc/Hz at 10kHz offset
from the carrier) is also obtained.
We demonstrate a tunable chromatic dispersion (CD) compensation technique using a semiconductor optical amplifier
(SOA) and a coil of dispersion compensation fiber (DCF). Based on cross-phase modulation (XPM) in the SOA, the
transient chirp of the received signal can be adjusted by tuning the drive current of the SOA and the power of clock
pulse. In this way, a 10-Gbit/s tunable CD compensation setup, ranging from -40ps/nm to 60ps/nm, is realized without
changing the length of the DCF.
Short locking and unlocking time is essepecially important in the packet clock recovery, as it determines the network
resource utilization. This paper presents a novel 10-GHz all-optical packet clock extractor with ultrafast locking and
unlocking time via self-phase modulation (SPM) effect of the semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). Low finesse
Fabry-Perot (F-P) filter and a saturated SOA, in cascade, are used to directly extract the packet clock from the data
stream. An optical bandpass filter(OBPF) is used to filter out the red-shifted parts of the packet clock in order to reduce
the locking and unlocking time. We analytically investigate the impact of the locking and unlocking time thanks to the
self-gain modulation (SGM) effect and self-phase modulation(SPM) effect induced by the SOA, and demonstrate 10GHz
clock extraction with the establishing time of 200ps and vanishing time of 600ps experimentally.
We experimentally demonstrate a 4×10-Gb/s optical multicast scheme using a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)
and a single optical source, which produce a 10-GHz multi-wavelength pulse-trains used as the probe light of the SOA.
The multicast principle is based on the multi-wavelength conversion (MWC) by means of the interaction of both cross
gain modulation (XGM) and transient cross phase modulation (T-XPM) of the SOA. Because of the nonlinear
amplification of SOA, the 4 output copies are regenerated with respect to the input degraded signal. This scheme is very
simple and allows photonic integration.
We demonstrate a novel 40-Gb/s all-optical serial to parallel converter (AOSPC), which can convert 40-Gb/s serial
optical signals to 4-channel 10-Gb/s parallel optical signals. Moreover, based on the sequential multi-wavelength
conversion the AOSPC shows the regeneration ability.
A novel 10Gbit/s all-optical packet clock extractor, which comprises a Fabry-Perot (F-P) filter and a semiconductor
optical amplifier (SOA), is proposed in this paper. Low Finesse Fabry-Perot (F-P) filter was used to directly extract the
packet clock from the data packet stream, which ensures that the clock locks fast and vanishes quickly. The clock,
amplitude modulated as a result of low-Q filter, then goes into SOA to reduce the low-frequency amplitude noise. The
impact of F-P filter and SOA on the locking and unlocking time of the packet clock is theoretically analyzed. The result
shows that the locking time is reduced while the unlocking time is increased, due to the self-gain modulation (SGM)
effect. We demonstrate instantaneous 10.075GHz clock extraction experimentally with the establishing time of about 8
code-periods and vanishing time of about 22 code-periods.
PMD vectors can be described by Stokes vectors pointing to the direction of slow PSP with a length equal to DGD. Measuring DOP is a way of obtaining DGD information and the direction of PSP can be characterized by scrambling at the transmitter. When totally polarized optical signals (DOP=1) transmit a distance, DOP decreases due to the influence of PMD. However, if the input SOP is aligned to the direction of the PSP, DOP of optical signals remains unchanged. Placing a scrambler at the transmitter, SOP of input signals covers Poincare sphere at a certain frequency. The effect of PMD on SOPs in different directions changes with transmission, and the output DOP is described and shown. SOPs of two extreme points in the main axis are just two PSPs. After one time scrambling, 3500 SOPs are distributed equally in the Poincare sphere. The DOP of all SOPs can be calculated under the condition that splitting ratio is 0.5, with two SOPs at maximum DOP being two PSPs and two SOPs at minimum DOP being the SOP. Since the whole information of first-order PMD vector can be acquired, feed-forward PMD compensation will be feasible and fast.
We present a compact short pulses source, in which the pulses generated by large-signal directly modulated laser diode
are phase-modulated, and it can compress the pulse from 30ps to 5.3ps with 184fs timing jitter.
KEYWORDS: Polarization, Feedback signals, Polarization control, Signal processing, Polarimetry, Detection and tracking algorithms, Beam splitters, Signal detection, Control systems, Optoelectronics
Polarization mode dispersion compensation for fiber communications systems of higher rate is of great importance. Key elements in polarization mode dispersion compensation are polarization controllers and differential group delay lines. Usual ways of compensation for PMD is to control both elements with the same feedback signals, which are processed with an algorithm for control of these elements. Algorithms should be designed for both the controller and delay line with an input signal and give out controlling signals for both elements alternatively. This may cause aimless action of DGD line or polarization state controlling. This paper gives a method of controlling these compensating elements, the polarization controller and the variable differential delay line, with different feedback signals, i.e., to control compensation elements for PMD Compensation separately. It uses Stocks parameters to control polarization controller and uses degree of polarization (DOP) to a variable delay line.
KEYWORDS: Polarization, Digital signal processing, Polarimetry, Telecommunications, Eye, Gaussian pulse, Process control, Optoelectronics, Fiber optic communications, Signal processing
We firstly derive the mathematical expression of degree of polarization (DOP) for Gauss pulse sequence, then analysis theoretically the relationship between DOP and differential group delay (DGD). The relevant experiments well demonstrate the relationship of DOP-DGD. We get the conclusions that the DOP-DGD curve is independent of fibre dispersion, line chip, and bit rate, and are affected by the width of optical spectrum and splitting ratio. Based on the theory, we successfully complete an automatic PMD compensation system for first-order PMD, which can compensate PMD in the optical link in real-time. The response time of compensation system can reach several milliseconds.
Polarization dependent characteristics of the fiber-optic transmission systems become more important than ever before as the bit rates increase to 10 Gb/s and beyond. We derived the Jones matrix and Muller matrix of a polarization controller (PC), and in our experiment, we can get every wanted state of polarization (SOP) at the PC output with all kinds of input SOP. Using PC as a key component, we designed a polarization stabilizer. With the unknown change of the input SOP and random shift of the environment, the polarization stabilizer can maintain a fixed SOP through controlling the PC in real-time.
It is important to know how the degree of polarization (DOP) changes with differential group delay (DGD) when DOP is the feedback parameter for an adaptive polarization mode dispersion compensator (PMDC). We derived the mathematical expression of DOP for pulse sequence with arbitrary and Gauss waveforms under the condition of quasi-monochromatic wave, then analyzed theoretically the relation between DOP and DGD with different power splitting ratio and pulse width. Then we carried out the experiments of DOP with 10Gbit/s RZ/NRZ pseudo random sequence pulses and made comparison between theoretical calculation and experimental data. The comparison showed that they matched closely. We also verified by experiments that DOP is independent of fiber dispersion.
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