Abstract:
A gain adjustment method in an optical transmission system that performs communication by a digital coherent system including an optical transmission device and an optical reception device includes converting an optical signal transmitted from the optical transmission device into an electrical signal, converting the electrical signal from an analog signal to a digital signal, performing first signal processing on the digital signal, performing adaptive equalization processing on the digital signal subjected to the first signal processing using a digital filter, correcting an amplitude of an output signal of the digital filter based on information of the amplitude and a phase of the output signal of the digital filter and the amplitude of a known transmission signal, and performing second signal processing on the output signal of the digital filter whose amplitude has been corrected.
Abstract:
An optical receiver that demodulates an optical modulation signal into a baseband signal, which is an electrical signal, and decodes a received symbol acquired by converting the baseband signal. The optical receiver includes: an analog-to-digital converter that converts the baseband signal into a digital signal of which the number of samples per received symbol is M/N (samples/symbol), M and N being positive integers, M/N being not an integer, and “M >N” being satisfied; and an adaptive equalization processing unit that executes an equalization operation set in advance to output the received symbol on the basis of the digital signal of which the number of samples per received symbol is M/N (samples/symbol) and a predetermined tap coefficient digital signal equalization tap coefficients used for equalization of a signal, the coefficient being updated in any sampling period.
Abstract:
The estimation of an amount of chromatic dispersion using a training signal sequence is possible. A transmission method includes: a training signal sequence generation step of generating, as training signal sequences, a plurality of signal sequences having power concentrated in a plurality of frequency bands, the power concentrated at different frequency bands; a training signal sequence selection step of selecting at least one training signal sequence from among the plurality of training signal sequences generated in the training signal sequence generation step, a signal multiplexing step of generating a signal sequence obtained by time-division multiplexing the training signal sequence selected in the training signal sequence selection step with a transmission data sequence, and an electrical-to-optical conversion step of transmitting the signal sequence generated in the signal multiplexing step as an optical signal.
Abstract:
An optical receiving device receives an optical signal that has been modulated by means of phase modulation or quadrature amplitude modulation, converts the received optical signal into an electrical signal using coherent detection, and performs phase compensation on the converted received signal, and includes: a carrier phase estimation unit that estimates carrier phase errors in a received symbol string obtained from the received signal; a gain adjustment unit that performs gain adjustment on symbols input into the carrier phase adjustment unit; a phase cycle slip reduction unit that, by performing statistical processing on an output from the carrier phase estimation unit, detects general noise that causes a phase cycle slip, and reduces the phase cycle slip; and a phase compensation circuit that compensates carrier phase errors contained in the received signal using an output from the carrier phase estimation unit.
Abstract:
An optical transmission system according to an embodiment includes: an optical transmission unit which modulates an optical signal into which a known signal is inserted and transmits the optical signal; and an optical reception unit which receives the optical signal from the optical transmission unit, wherein the optical reception unit includes: an optical receiver which performs coherent detection of a reception signal of the optical signal received from the optical transmission unit; a receiver transfer function estimation section which estimates a nonlinear response transfer function of the optical receiver based on the known signal included in the reception signal after the detection by the optical receiver; and a receiver compensation section which compensates nonlinear distortion of the reception signal after the detection based on the nonlinear response transfer function which the receiver transfer function estimation section estimates.
Abstract:
A fiber module (1B) according to the present disclosure includes an input-side optical fiber (11), an output-side optical fiber (12), a ferrule (20) in which the input-side optical fiber and the output-side optical fiber are insertable in both ends and a groove (32) is formed in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction (D1) in the middle of the longitudinal direction, a dielectric multilayer film filter (30) inserted in the groove, and an input-side GI fiber (15) and an output-side GI fiber (16) joined by fusion to respective terminal portions of the input-side optical fiber and the output-side optical fiber. The dielectric multilayer film filter is interposed between an end surface (15f) of the input-side GI fiber and an end surface (16f) of the output-side GI fiber in the longitudinal direction.
Abstract:
An optical transmitter of an optical data transmission system transmitting data through an optical fiber transmission path includes a main signal generator that converts first transmission data into a predetermined signal format to generate a first signal, a DCSK modulator that DCSK-modulates second transmission data to generate a second signal, a signal-multiplexer that performs time-division multiplexing of the first signal and the second signal, and an electro-optical converter that converts a multiplexed signal obtained by the time-division multiplexing of the signal-multiplexer from an electric signal into an optical signal, and outputs the optical signal to the optical fiber transmission path.
Abstract:
A coherent optical reception device includes a local oscillation laser that supplies laser light, a coherent optical reception front-end unit that receives a multi-level modulated optical signal, demodulates the optical signal on the basis of the laser light, and converts a demodulated optical signal into an electrical analog signal, an analog-to-digital converter that converts the analog signal into a digital signal, a compensation unit that compensates for an influence of dispersion due to a wavelength or a polarized wave of the optical signal and recovers a carrier phase of the digital signal, a constellation distortion compensation unit that compensates for constellation distortion of the multi-level modulation included in the digital signal in which an influence of dispersion is compensated for by the compensation unit, and an error correction decoding unit that performs error correction of the digital signal in which the constellation distortion is compensated for.
Abstract:
An aspect of the present invention is an adaptive equalization filter for an optical transmission system, including: a main signal filter; and a coefficient computation unit that updates the filter coefficient of the main signal filter. The pre-stage filter and the post-stage filter receive a sample of the main signal as an input. The pre-stage coefficient computation unit obtains the filter coefficient of the pre-stage filter by feedback control using the gradient method. The post-stage coefficient computation unit obtains the filter coefficient of the post-stage filter by feedforward control. The convolution computation unit obtains the filter coefficient of the main signal filter by convolution computation of the filter coefficient of the pre-stage filter obtained by the pre-stage coefficient computation unit and the filter coefficient of the post-stage filter obtained by the post-stage coefficient computation unit.
Abstract:
An optical reception apparatus includes a wavelength dispersion compensation unit that performs wavelength dispersion compensation individually on reception signals that are obtained by receiving, by a coherent detecting scheme, an optical signal modulated in a subcarrier modulation scheme and by performing division on a subcarrier-by-subcarrier basis, and a plurality of delay compensation units that compensate for a delay between reception signals at different subcarriers among the reception signals at subcarriers obtained by the wavelength dispersion compensation.