Abstract:
Provided is an optical receiver module which includes a conversion unit which converts an input optical signal to an electrical signal, an amplification unit which amplifies the electrical signal and outputs an amplified signal, a reception unit which directly or indirectly receives the amplified signal, and an offsetting unit which offsets the electrical signal such that a difference between a center of an intensity width of the electrical signal and a center of an intensity range of a signal capable of being received by the reception unit becomes small.
Abstract:
An apparatus, comprising a receiver configured to receive a primary signal that comprises a narrowband noise component and a broadband noise component, a processor coupled to the receiver and configured to determine, in a time domain, an estimate of the narrowband noise component in real-time, determine a cancelled output signal in real-time that comprises an estimate of the broadband noise component, and determine an estimate of a power level of the narrowband noise component in real-time.
Abstract:
A method for monitoring a circuit. The method may include obtaining, using a total current monitoring device, a measurement of a current transmitted through a cathode in a photodetector circuit. The current may include a first photocurrent for a first photodetector and a second photocurrent for a second photodetector. The method may include obtaining, using a differential current monitoring device in a transimpedance amplifier circuit, a differential voltage proportional to a current difference between the first photocurrent and the second photocurrent. The transimpedance amplifier circuit may generate, using the first photocurrent and the second photocurrent, a first output signal and a second output signal. The method may include determining, using the differential voltage and the measurement of the current transmitted through the cathode, an amount of the first photocurrent and an amount of the second photocurrent.
Abstract:
A method for monitoring a circuit. The method may include obtaining, using a total current monitoring device, a measurement of a current transmitted through a cathode in a photodetector circuit. The current may include a first photocurrent for a first photodetector and a second photocurrent for a second photodetector. The method may include obtaining, using a differential current monitoring device in a transimpedance amplifier circuit, a differential voltage proportional to a current difference between the first photocurrent and the second photocurrent. The transimpedance amplifier circuit may generate, using the first photocurrent and the second photocurrent, a first output signal and a second output signal. The method may include determining, using the differential voltage and the measurement of the current transmitted through the cathode, an amount of the first photocurrent and an amount of the second photocurrent.
Abstract:
An optical receiver includes closed-loop composite second order (CSO) distortion correction logic. An optical communication system includes a transmitter comprising open-loop composite second order (CSO) distortion correction logic, and a receiver comprising closed-loop composite second order (CSO) distortion correction logic.
Abstract:
In a coherent receiver of an optical communication system, a method of processing a detected symbol estimate to determine a most likely value of a corresponding transmitted data word, the transmitted data word comprising one or more data bits encoded in a transmitter using a predetermined constellation of at least two symbols. A set of two or more virtual constellation points are define in a decision region corresponding to a possible value of the data word. The detected symbol estimate is processed to find a most likely virtual constellation point given the detected symbol estimate. The most likely value of the corresponding transmitted data word is determined based on the most likely virtual constellation point.
Abstract:
An optical receiver circuit has a function of converting a differential optical signal into a differential current signal. The optical receiver circuit has a pair of light-receiving elements including first and second light-receiving elements operable to convert an optical signal into a current signal and a pair of signal lines. An anode of the first light-receiving element and a cathode of the second light-receiving element are connected to a first signal line of the pair of signal lines via first and second AC coupling capacitors, respectively. A cathode of the first light-receiving element and an anode of the second light-receiving element are connected to a second signal line of the pair of signal lines via third and fourth AC coupling capacitors, respectively. Differential signal currents are generated in the first and second signal lines in response to reception of differential optical signals inputted into the first and second light-receiving elements.
Abstract:
In order to be able to receive any digital optical signals in the bandwidth range from zero bits per second to the high Gbits/second range with as little circuit complexity as possible and to be able to process said signals with the least possible energy requirement for reprocessing, the invention proposes a circuit arrangement as well as a method for receiving digital optical signals by means of at least one light-receiving component connected upstream of at least one signal input port, particularly by means of at least one photodiode, wherein the unipolar current signal coming from the light-receiving component through the signal input port is transformed into a bipolar current signal by means of a compensation current provided by at least one current source, the value of said current being defined by means of at least one digital register.
Abstract:
A transceiver architecture for wireless base stations wherein a broadband radio frequency signal is carried between at least one tower-mounted unit and a ground-based unit via optical fibers, or other non-distortive media, in either digital or analog format. Each tower-mounted unit (for both reception and transmission) has an antenna, analog amplifier and an electro-optical converter. The ground unit has ultrafast data converters and digital frequency translators, as well as signal linearizers, to compensate for nonlinear distortion in the amplifiers and optical links in both directions. In one embodiment of the invention, at least one of the digital data converters, frequency translators, and linearizers includes superconducting elements mounted on a cryocooler.
Abstract:
An optical communication system, a transmitter, a receiver, and methods of operating the same are provided. In particular, a transmitter is disclosed as being configured to encode optical signals in accordance with a multi-level coding scheme. The receiver is configured to provide receive and decode to the optical signals received from the transmitter. One or both of the receiver and transmitter are configured to compensate for non-idealities or non-linearities introduced into the communication system by optical components of the system.