800 Mbit/s Digital Transmission System Over Coaxial Cable

800 Mbit/s digital transmission systems, using nonredundant three-level and four-level codes, have been studied as a means of providing an economically attractive digital transmission system. These systems have been designed to be compatible with a 60 MHz analog system in repeater spacing and repeater size, so as to be easily introduced into the existing network. These systems with 11 520 telephone channels, exceed the 60 MHz analog system in both capacity and economy. Due to repeater construction factors, it became clear that the three-level code is more suitable. This paper describes the design and performance of 800 Mbit/s digital transmission systems and repeaters.     

Repeater spacing of 280 Mbit/s single-mode fiber-optic transmission system using 1.55 µm laser diode source

This paper describes an attainable repeater spacing for a high bit-rate single-mode fiber-optic transmission in the 1.55 μm wavelength region where laser mode partition noise comes to be significant. An expression for evaluating mode partition noise is given as the form involving the influence of laser spectral fluctuations under high bit-rate modulation, together with the intersymbol interference and the equalized pulse shape in tile optical receiver. After the validity of its numerical results is confirmed experimentally, the resulting evaluation of laser mode partition noise is connected to a systematic discussion on the attainable repeater spacing of a 280 Mbit/s fiber-optic transmission system operating at 1.55 μm, along with fiber loss versus dispersion tradeoffs. This discussion permits the attainable repeater spacing to be 60-70 km for the combination of a laser diode with 1.5-2.0 nm spectrum broadening and a fiber with the loss of 0.5 dB/km and the dispersion of 4-6 ps/km - nm.     

An Experimental 560 Mbits/s Repeater with Integrated Circuits

The bandwidth penalty of digital systems is very obvious in the case of transmission over coaxial cables because of the exponential increse of cable attenuation with square root of frequency. From capacity point of view, it is only at very high information rates (> 500 Mbit/s typically) that a digital system might be competitive with an analog system, because the disadvantage of noise accumulation in an analog system ultimately cancels the bandwidth penalty of the digital system. In addition, it is, however, difficult to realize common functions, such as amplification, equalization, regeneration, clock extraction, etc. with electronic components having a frequency range comparable to the frequency range of the information signal, which extends from zero frequency to the microwave range. Besides, the complexity of a regenerative repeater should be kept to a minimum for reliability reasons. It is shown in the paper that with present-day technology a 560 Mbit/s repeater can be constructed, operating in sections of 1.5 km coaxial cable (2.6/9.5 mm). Also, we demonstrate that new technologies exist which may lead to repeaters with a high degree of monolithic integration, even at such a speed, which is important from the reliability viewpoint. The constructed and described repeater is characterized by unconventional and economic design of amplifier/equalizer and clock extractor and by monolithically integrated decision circuits.     

400 Mbit/s Digital Repeater Circuitry Provided by a New Design Method and Beam Lead GHz Transistors

A stable, compact, and high-performance regenerative repeater circuitry, suitable for digital transmission systems up to several hundred Mbit/s, has been provided through utilization of new devices, such as 7 GHz beam lead shielded junction transistors, and through a new computer-aided design method, and has been successfully applied to the 400 Mbit/s experimental coaxial cable PCM system. Major features of this repeater circuitry are: (1) an equalizing amplifier with low noise figure (7.6 dB), small intersymbol interference (12%), and automatic line equalization of 21 dB tracking range at 200 MHz; (2) a regenerative output circuit with bipolar pulses of 2.4 Vop amplitude and 700 ps rise time; and (3) total performance with sufficient noise margin (10 dB for error rate 10^-11over a line of 56 dB loss at 200 MHz), small static pattern jitter (20°pp), smaller size (270 times 160 times 52mm), and lower power (5.8 W). These have been achieved by use of: (1) new devices such as beam lead transistors with fTof 7 GHz,Leof 0.2 nH andCobof 0.4 pF and tantalum thin film hybrid integrated circuits; and (2) a new CAD system including block simulation, network design/ simulation, layout design subsystems which use transmission quality (error rate and jitter) as a design criterion, and which can also be directly connected to the manufacture automation systems, e.g., for mask preparation, and transistor mounting by bonding.     

Long-span single-mode fiber transmission characteristics in long wavelength regions

Experimental and analytical results on high-speed optical pulse transmission characteristics for long-span single-mode fibers by using InGaAsP lasers, emitting at 1.1, 1.3, and 1.5 μm, as well as a Ge-APD are reported. At 1.1 μm, 400 Mbit/s transmission experiments were successfully carried out with 20 km repeater spacing. At 1.3 μm, where single-mode fiber dispersions approach zero, error rate characteristics showed that optical power penalties at 100 Mbits/s and 1.2 Gbits/s are negligible even after 30 and 23 km fiber transmission, respectively. It was confirmed that a 1.6 Gbit/s transmission system has 15 km repeater spacing. At 1.5 μm, where silica fibers have ultimately minimum loss, single-mode fiber transmission experiments were carried out at 100 Mbits/s with about 30 km repeater spacing. 400 Mbit/s transmission characteristics using 20 km fibers were also studied. Fiber bandwidths, measured by optical pulse broadenings after 20 km transmission, were 24, 140, and 37 GHz . km . nm at 1.1, 1.3, and 1.5 μm, respectively. Progress in lasers, fibers, and optical delay equalizers at 1.5μm will bring about large-capacity transmission systems having about 150 km repeater spacing. These results reveal fiber dispersion characteristics in the long wavelength region essential to high data rate single-mode fiber transmission system design.     

Sea trial of submarine optical amplifier repeater system using travelling-wave semiconductor laser amplifier

An optical amplifier repeater system consisting of semiconductor laser amplifiers was evaluated in 3000 m deep sea at 820 Mbit/s in the 1.5 mu m wavelength region using 23.5 km of optical submarine cable. The repeater output power was stabilised by an APC system monitoring amplified optical signal power. The authors confirmed stable digital signal transmission and the reduction of variation in the repeater output power for changes in the polarisation of the input signal.<>     

EDFA在565Mbit／s光纤数字通信系统上的实验

本文介绍武汉邮电科学研究院光纤光缆部研制的掺铒光纤放大器（ＥＤＦＡ），及其在国产的５６５Ｍｂｉｔ／ｓ光纤数字通信系统上的实验，中继距离可达１９０ｋｍ，系统误码率＜１０—１２。     

Design and Performances of a 200 Mbit/s 16 QAM Digital Radio System

A novel long haul 5 GHz 16 QAM digital radio system, which has 200 Mbit/s transmission capacity within the 40 MHz interleaved channel allocation, is proposed and described. It is designed to be overbuilt on existing FDM-FM routes with an approximately 50 km repeater spacing. To achieve the 5 bit/s/Hz RF spectral efficiency, the 16 QAM modulation and Nyquist cosine roll-off spectral shaping techniques (alpha = 0.5) are investigated. Then a new signal shaping filter, differential encoding and carrier recovery techniques are presented. Finally, the effects of TWT amplifier nonlinearity on a 16 QAM signal are experimentally investigated.     

800 Mbit/s optical transmission experiments with dispersion-free fibres at 1.5 ?m

By using dispersion-free single-mode fibres at 1.5 ?m, where silica fibres have minimum loss, an optical transmission experiment was successfully carried out at 800 Mbit/s with 20 km repeater spacing. Error rate against receiving optical level characteristics showed that the optical power penalty caused by fibre dispersion is negligible after long line transmission at 1.5 ?m.     

Quantized Feedback in an Experimental 280-Mb/s Digital Repeater for Coaxial Transmission

A 280-Mb/s digital coaxial repeater employing two-level transmission with quantized feedback for dc-wander control has been designed and constructed. The linear channel forward path includes a 10-MHz low-frequency cutoff, and the missing low frequencies are supplied by a filtered signal from the repeater output. This approach effectively removes dc wander without use of code restriction, making it possible to use two-level rather than three-level transmission without loss of information transmission. Eye margins are consequently significantly greater than for previously designed 280-Mb/s three-level repeaters. The bandwidth ratio, or ratio of upper to lower 3-dB down points of the signal transmission path, is only 10 for this approach compared to several hundred for the three-level bipolar approach (and more for codes with higher transmission efficiency). This results in greatly reduced susceptibility to interference from lightning and power surges, elimination of preamplifier overload, and simplified repeater design.     

1.5 m optical transmission experiments using very low-loss single-mode fibres

By using an InGaAsP semiconductor laser emitting at 1.5 ?m, where silica fibre loss is at a minimum, single-mode fibre transmission experiments were successfully carried out at 100 Mbit/s with about 30 km repeater spacing, 400 Mbit/s transmission characteristics using 20 km fibres are also reported.     

High-speed optical pulse transmission at 1.29-µm wavelength using low-loss single-mode fibers

Optical-fiber transmission experiments in the 1.3-μm wavelength region are reported. GaInAsP/InP double-heterostructure semiconductor laser emitting at 1.293 μm is modulated directly in nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) codes at digit rates tanging from 100 Mbit/s to 1.2 Gbit/s. Its output is transmitted through low-loss GeO2-doped single-mode silica fibers in 11-km lengths. Transmitted optical signals are detected by a high-speed Ge avalanche photodiode. Overall loss of the 11-km optical fibers, including 11 splices, is 15.5 dB at 1.3 μm. Average received optical power levels necessary for 10^-9error rate are -39.9 dBm at 100 Mbit/s and -29.1 dBm at 1.2 Gbit/s. In the present system configuration, the repeater spacing is limited by loss rather than dispersion. It seems feasible that a more than 30 km repeater spacing at 100 Mbit/s and a more than 20 km even at 1.2 Gbit/s can be realized with low-loss silica fiber cables, whose loss is less than 1 dB/km. Distinctive features and problems associated with this experimental system and constituent devices are discussed.     

Dispersion penalties for single-mode-fibre transmission using 1.3 and 1.5 ?m LEDs

Dispersion penalties for single-mode-fibre transmission using 1.3 and 1.5 ?m LEDs have been measured for fibre lengths of up to 22.5 km and at bit rates of 90, 140 and 280 Mbit/s. The experimental results are compared to theoretical values obtained from an intersymbol interference calculation.     

British Telecom 565 Mbit/s lightline system

British Telecom is currently developing a 565 Mbit/s trunk optical fibre system which incorporates both multiplexing and line transmission. The system will operate at 1.3 μm over single-mode fibre with a 30 km repeater spacing. Extensive use is being made of ECL uncommitted logic arrays (ULAs) manufactured at British Telecom Research Laboratories (BTRL) and derived from the reliable ECL 40 process as used in submarine cable system integrated circuits. Details of the system design are presented together with the initial results of a laboratory system built out of commercially available components to establish confidence in the design.     

Theoretical and Measured Performance of a DFE Modem on a Fading Multipath Channel

A decision-feedback equalizer (DFE) is the basis of a recent development of a quadruple diversity troposcatter modem which can operate up to a data rate of 12.6 Mbit/s in a 99% bandwidth of 15 MHz. In this paper a theoretical approach is developed for the calculation of average bit error rate (ABER), including the effects of intersymbol interference due to multipath and the finiteness of the transversal filters used to realize the DFE. By omitting the intersymbol interference effect, the calculation provides a lower bound which can be used to assess the intersymbol interference penalty for a particular DFE structure. The paper includes calculations of a DFE configuration which has a three tap forward filter with tap spacing equal to one-half a symbol interval. Measured performance results from fading channel simulator tests of a three tap forward filter DFE are presented for data rates from 1.5 to 12.6 Mbit/s and for a wide range of multipath statistical conditions. The results for this DFE configuration show (1) excellent agreement between calculated and measured ABER, (2) a small intersymbol interference penalty when the 2σ multipath spread is less than approximnately one-half the data symbol interval, and (3) successful operation at values of multipath spread up to twice the data symbol interval. In a sequel to this paper, the results of a field test of the DFE modem are presented. These live links test results are consistent with both the calculated and simulator measured data presented here.     

Measurement of mode partition in DFB lasers

Some DFB (distributed feedback) laser diodes have a satellite mode beside a main DFB mode even if FP modes are suppressed. In this paper, the mode partition noise is presented for several DFB lasers operating in multilongitudinal modes. The results show that under modulation at 140 Mbit/s, the mode partition coefficient k²of multimode DFB lasers is very small and at most 0.02 while that of FP lasers biased at the threshold level is 0.03 to 0.12. The numerical evaluation of the mode partition effect in two-mode DFB lasers suggests that a 20- dB suppression of the satellite mode power is enough to achieve a repeater spacing of over 100 km in the 280 Mbit/s fiber-optic transmission system with less than 0.1-dB power penalty.     

System experiments using 1.3 ?m LEDs

An experimental LED/PIN system is described that operates at 274 Mbit/s over 7.5 km or at 44.7 Mbit/s over 23.3 km without repeaters. These results are compared with repeater spans calculated for various loss and bandwidth conditions.     

Network experiment using an 8000 GHz tuning-range optical filter

A tunable optical filter with 180 MHz resolution and continuous tuning range of 8000 GHz was used in a lightwave network experiment. Three 50 Mbit/s channels with minimum channel spacing of 1.6 GHz and maximum channel spacing of 4000 GHz were individually received error-free in the presence of interfering optical power corresponding to 6000 channels     

800 Mb/s fibre transmission test using low-loss and low-dispersion single-mode cable

Error-rate performances of a single-mode fibre transmission system are evaluated at wavelengths of 1.18 and 1.31 ?m. It is proven that longitudinal single-mode oscillation of the laser is important in a high-bit-rate system at a finite dispersion wavelength. At a low dispersion wavelength of 1.31 ?m, repeater spacing at 800 Mb/s was extended to 40 km, by developing a low-loss single-mode fibre cable, a stabilised optical transmitter and receiver and a single-mode optical connector.     

A 0.3-μm CMOS 8-Gb/s 4-PAM serial link transceiver

An 8-Gb/s 0.3-μm CMOS transceiver uses multilevel signaling (4-PAM) and transmit preshaping in combination with receive equalization to reduce intersymbol interference due to channel low-pass effects. High on-chip frequencies are avoided by multiplexing and demultiplexing the data directly at the pads. Timing recovery takes advantage of a novel frequency acquisition scheme and a linear phase-locked loop that achieves a loop bandwidth of 35 MHz, phase margin of 50°, and capture range of 20 MHz without a frequency acquisition aid. The transmitted 8 Gb/s data are successfully detected by the receiver after a 10-m coaxial cable. The 2×2 mm² chip consumes 1.1 W at 8 Gb/s with a 3-V supply