摘要:
An RF signal generator has an optical part for outputting optical carrier signals separated in optical frequency, and a modulator arranged to modulate the optical carrier signals with an intermediate frequency to generate sidebands. A phase modulation is applied to one or more of the sidebands or the optical carriers, without applying the phase modulation to others of the signals, and the modulator has integrated optical paths for both the phase modulated signals and for the others of the signals. A detector part carries out heterodyne detection to combine the phase modulated and other signals to output an RF signal having the phase modulation. By having integrated optical paths, the relative phase of these optical paths can be more stable than using a fiber sagnac interferometer and optical isolator thus enabling use in advanced radio communications.
摘要:
An RF signal transceiver comprising a mode-locked laser to output an optical signal having a plurality of phase-locked modes, an optical splitter to power split the optical signal into a transmitter optical signal and a receiver optical signal; a transmitter apparatus to receive the transmitter optical signal and comprising an optical filter to select two of the modes, an optical modulator to modulate a part of the transmitter optical signal to form at least one phase modulated optical signal, and a photodetector to heterodyne the phase modulated optical signal with one of the modes without a corresponding phase modulation to form an RF signal for transmission; and a receiver apparatus arranged to receive an RF signal and the receiver optical signal and comprising an optical modulator to modulate the receiver optical signal with the received RF signal; and an optical to electrical signal conversion apparatus to convert the modulated receiver optical signal into a corresponding electrical signal.
摘要:
An optical label extractor (10) comprising a non-linear optical element (12), a pump source (14) and optical filter apparatus (16). Said non-linear optical element (12) is arranged to receive optical data packets (18) at data signal wavelengths. Each said data packet comprises at least one data bit and at least one label bit. Said pump source (14) is arranged to pump said non-linear optical element such that any non-zero label bit experiences a non-linear optical effect on propagation through said non-linear optical element and an output label bit (20) comprising a respective further wavelength is thereby generated. Said optical filter apparatus (16) is arranged to receive any said output label bit from said non-linear optical element and being further arranged to prevent transmission of a part of said output label at said respective data signal wavelength and to transmit a part of said output label bit at said respective further wavelength.
摘要:
A receiver scheme for optical signals in Return-to-zero (RZ) systems comprises a conventional receiver at the input of which is placed an all-optical decision element realized with nonlinear optical elements. This allows obtaining a substantial increase in performance compared with a simple conventional receiver optimized for NRZ signals. In particular, an optical decision is made up advantageously of two non-linear optical loop mirrors (NOLMs) arranged in cascade with an optical amplifier at the input and a pass-band filter at the output. The loops lengths may be different, as may be the splitting ratios of the couplers of the NOLMs.
摘要:
An optical logic gate (10) comprises: first and second optical inputs (11, 12) for receiving respective optical signals (A, B) and an optical output (15) for outputting an optical signal (Pout) which represents the result of applying a required logic function. The logic gate is characterized by optical combining means (13) for combining the optical signals to produce a corresponding combination signal whose power (Pi) is the combination of the powers (PA, PB) of the optical signals and non-linear optical means (14) for receiving the combination signal (Pi) and emitting the optical output signal (Pout) the logic function depending on the characteristic of the non-linear optical means wherein the characteristic is selected such that the power of the output signal is correlated to the power of the combination signal by the selected logic function.
摘要:
An RF signal transceiver comprising a mode-locked laser to output an optical signal having a plurality of phase-locked modes, an optical splitter to power split the optical signal into a transmitter optical signal and a receiver optical signal; a transmitter apparatus to receive the transmitter optical signal and comprising an optical filter to select two of the modes, an optical modulator to modulate a part of the transmitter optical signal to form at least one phase modulated optical signal, and a photodetector to heterodyne the phase modulated optical signal with one of the modes without a corresponding phase modulation to form an RF signal for transmission; and a receiver apparatus arranged to receive an RF signal and the receiver optical signal and comprising an optical modulator to modulate the receiver optical signal with the received RF signal; and an optical to electrical signal conversion apparatus to convert the modulated receiver optical signal into a corresponding electrical signal.
摘要:
An apparatus and method for generating a train of optical pulses. The apparatus comprises an optical resonant cavity (1) for confining an optical signal in the cavity to a number of modes, a modulator (3), and a control signal generator (101). The modulator comprises an interferometer arranged to cause interference of the optical signal with itself to produce an output and controllable material, such as an electro-optic crystal, arranged in a path of the optical signal, an optical property of the controllable material dependent on a control signal (3b) applied to the controllable material such that changes in the optical property alter optical signals travelling that path to affect the interference of the optical signals, and therefore the output of the modulator. The control signal generator is arranged to generate the control signal, wherein the control magnitude is an oscillating waveform arranged to cause transmission of the optical signal through the modulator to generate pulses having a pulse width shorter than a pulse width of pulses that would be generated using a sinusoidal waveform of the same frequency.
摘要:
An optical logic gate (10) comprises: first and second optical inputs (11, 12) for receiving respective optical signals (A, B) and an optical output (15) for outputting an optical signal (Pout) which represents the result of applying a required logic function. The logic gate is characterised by optical combining means (13) for combining the optical signals to produce a corresponding combination signal whose power (Pi) is the combination of the powers (PA, PB) of the optical signals and non-linear optical means (14) for receiving the combination signal (Pi) and emitting the optical output signal (Pout) the logic function depending on the characteristic of the non-linear optical means wherein the characteristic is selected such that the power of the output signal is correlated to the power of the combination signal by the selected logic function.
摘要:
A receiver scheme (10) for optical signals in Return-to-zero (RZ) systems comprises a conventional receiver (11) at the input of which is placed an all-optical decision element (12) realized with nonlinear optical elements. This allows obtaining a substantial increase in performance compared with a simple conventional receiver optimised for NRZ signals. In particular, an optical decision is made up advantageously of two non-linear optical loop mirrors (NOLMs) (15, 16) arranged in cascade with an optical amplifier (14) at the input and a pass-band filter (18) at the output. The loops lengths may be different, as may be the splitting ratios of the couplers of the NOLMs.
摘要:
A pulsed optical signal regenerator device comprises three optical stages (11,12,13) arranged in cascade between an input (14) to which is applied a signal Si to be regenerated and an output (15) at which is available a regenerated signal Sr. The first stage (11) comprises a first noise suppressor on the zero for noise reduction in the spaces between the input signal pulses. The second stage (12) comprises an inverting converter for transferring to a clock signal (Ck) the information carried by the signal outgoing from the first stage and introducing a logical inversion of the signal for transformation of the pulses affected by noise in spaces affected by noise. The third stage (13) comprises a second noise suppressor on the zero for reduction of the noise in the spaces between the signal pulses output from the second stage. The clock signal can be at a tributary bit rate of the entering signal to obtain a demultiplexer function also.