Abstract:
An optical 90-degree hybrid circuit includes: first and second optical splitters for receiving and splitting a first and second light beam into two, respectively; a first optical coupler for generating an interfering light beam by multiplexing one of the light beams split by the first optical splitter and the second optical splitter; and a second optical coupler for generating an interfering light beam by multiplexing another one of the light beams split by the first optical splitter and the second optical splitter. The first optical splitter includes an optical coupler configured to output two light beams having equal phases, and the second optical splitter includes an optical coupler configured to output two light beams having a phase difference of 90 degrees.
Abstract:
An exemplary apparatus for digital coherent detection of a multi-wavelength signal includes a polarization-diversity optical hybrid, at least four Wavelength De-Multiplexing (W-DMUX) filters, 4M detectors, and 4M analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), with M an integer greater than one. The hybrid has a first input for receiving a multi-wavelength signal including M sub-channels at different wavelengths, and a second input for receiving a reference light source including M continuous-wave references at different wavelengths that approximates center wavelengths of the M sub-channels. The hybrid has at least four outputs. A W-DMUX input for each W-DMUX filter is provided a corresponding one of the hybrid outputs, and each W-DMUX filter provides M filtered optical channel outputs. Each detector converts at least one of the filtered channel outputs into a corresponding electrical signal. Each ADC converts one of the electrical signals into a corresponding digital signal. The corresponding digital signals represent the M sub-channels.
Abstract:
An approach is provided that uses diversity to compensate fading of free-space optical (FSO) signals propagating through an environment characterized by atmospheric scintillation. One embodiment involves collecting at least one FSO beam, demultiplexing the beam by wavelength into at least two sub-beams, detecting each sub-beam to produce an electrical output therefrom, and recovering a signal using complementary information from at least two of the electrical outputs. Another embodiment involves collecting the FSO beam onto an array of spatially separated sub-apertures, detecting the light entering each sub-aperture to produce an electrical output therefrom, and recovering a signal using complementary information from at least two of the electrical outputs. This second embodiment enables both electronic adaptive processing to coherently integrate across the sub-apertures and in the case of multiple transmit apertures a free space optical Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system.
Abstract:
Consistent with the present disclosure, optical signals are modulated in accordance with a higher order QAM modulation format, such as 8-QAM, to carry customer data, for example. The optical signals are converted to corresponding electrical signals, which are then subject to further processing. In particular, phase data associated with the higher order QAM constellation is processed, such that the outer points of the constellation are rotated to have the same phase as the inner points. As a result, both the inner and outer points resemble a constellation, and both may be more readily processed using feedforward or feedback carrier recovery. After such carrier recovery, the phase data is further processed so that the outer points are rotated back and the customer data can be extracted from the phase data.
Abstract:
An optical receiver includes: a waveform distortion compensator to perform an operation on digital signal representing an optical signal generated by an A/D converter to compensate for waveform distortion of the optical signal; a phase detector to generate phase information representing sampling phase of the A/D converter; a phase adjuster to generate digital signal representing an optical signal in which the sampling phase of the A/D converter is adjusted from an output signal of the waveform distortion compensator using the phase information; a demodulator to generate a demodulated signal from the output signal of the phase adjuster; a phase controller to control the sampling phase of the A/D converter; a peak detector to detect a peak value of the phase information while the sampling phase of the A/D converter is controlled by the phase controller; and a compensation controller to control the waveform distortion compensator using the peak value.
Abstract:
A digital signal processor (DSP) operating within, for example, an optical receiver wherein the DSP processes complex sample streams derived from a modulated optical signal, the DSP configured to perform a method of acquiring an intermediate frequency (IF) signal from within the received optical signal, the method comprising: processing at least one block of complex sample stream symbols using a frequency locked loop (FLL) to achieve an initial constellation lock condition, the FLL having a nominal lock-in spectral region; if an initial constellation lock condition is not achieved within a predetermined amount of time, shifting the spectral region processed by the FLL to a spectral region proximate a current operating spectral region.
Abstract:
A signal processing circuit includes: a first compensator configured to compensate for waveform distortion corresponding to chromatic dispersion of a received optical signal by using digital electrical signals obtained by sampling analog electrical signals by using a sampling signal, the analog electrical signals being obtained by opto-electric conversion of multiple optical signals that include an intensity of the received optical signal and phase information thereon; and a chromatic dispersion compensation controller configured to control a compensation value for the chromatic dispersion in the first compensation from the digital electrical signals in which the chromatic dispersion has been compensated for on the basis of a detected phase offset between the sampling signal and a modulation frequency of the received optical signal.
Abstract:
An apparatus, a polarization diversity receiver and a method of receiving a received optical signal. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes: (1) an optical device configured to separate in-phase and quadrature components of a received optical signal, to transmit the in-phase components to a first optical output thereof and to transmit the quadrature components to a second optical output thereof, (2) a first polarization splitter coupled to receive light at the first optical output and (3) a second polarization splitter coupled to receive light at the second optical output.
Abstract:
A signal processing device includes: a phase controller configured to control respective phases of an in-phase signal and an quadrature signal, which are obtained by converting an analog signal into a digital signal when a multi-value phase modulation light is demodulated, by digital signal processing; and a control amount provider configured to provide a control amount to the phase controller based on an output of the phase controller.
Abstract:
A delay device that provides a delay amount to at least one of the in-phase signal and the quadrature signal, and a delay control section that controls the delay amount provided by the delay device based on a quality of the signals when the in-phase signal and the quadrature signal, to the at least one of which the delay amount is provided, at the delay device are converted into digital signals by the analog-digital converter, and the digital signal processing is carried out at the processor are provided. Thereby, the signal quality of recovered data at a receiving end of a multi-level phase modulation communication system is improved.