Performance characterization of high-bit-rate optical chaotic communication systems in a back-to-back configuration

A comparative study of three data-encoding techniques in optical chaotic communication systems is reported. The chaotic carrier is generated by a semiconductor laser subjected to optical feedback and the data are encoded on it by chaotic modulation (CM), chaotic masking (CMS), or chaotic shift keying (CSK) methods. In all cases, the receiver-which is directly connected to the transmitter-consists of a semiconductor laser similar to that of the transmitter subjected to the same optical feedback. The performance of this back to back configuration is numerically tested by calculating the Q-factor of the eye diagram of the received data for different bit rates from 1 to 20 Gb/s. The CM scheme appears to have the best performance relative to the CMS and CSK scheme, before and after filtering the residual high-frequency oscillations remaining due to nonperfect synchronization between the transmitter and receiver. Moreover, in all encoding methods, a decrease in the Q-factor is observed when the repetition bit-rate of the encoding message increases. In order to achieve as high Q-factor values as possible, a well-synchronized chaotic master-slave system is required.     

Effects of message encoding and decoding on synchronized chaotic optical communications

Chaotic optical communication at 2.5 Gb/s is experimentally investigated using three major encoding and decoding schemes, namely chaos shift keying (CSK), chaos masking (CMS), and additive chaos modulation (ACM). The effects of message encoding and decoding on the chaotic dynamics, the chaos synchronization, and the chaotic communication performance are compared among the three schemes. In the schemes of CSK and ACM, it is found that a small amount of message injected into the chaotic dynamics can increase the complexity of the chaotic state dramatically. In the CMS scheme, the chaotic dynamics are found not to be influenced by the encoded message. The synchronization quality deteriorates dramatically with an increase in the message strength in CSK and CMS. The ACM scheme is found to have the best synchronization quality among the three schemes when there is an encoded message. Message recovery is demonstrated for each of the three schemes. The ACM scheme is found to have the best communication performance.     

基于OPC的高速PDM-CO-OFDM系统研究

通过理论分析和数值仿真,搭建了100Gbit/s的PDM(偏振复用)-CO-OFDM(相干光正交频分复用)系统,并使用OPC(光学相位共轭)技术对100Gbit/s的PDM-CO-OFDM系统的传输性能进行了补偿。研究表明,相位共轭技术不仅能够补偿系统的各阶色散,还能补偿非线性效应,使用OPC技术能使系统的传输距离达到1 200km,在最佳补偿距离上,使用OPC的系统Q值比使用传统的DCF(色散补偿光纤)的系统Q值大6.3dB。     

Optical phase conjugation for ultra long-haul phase-shift-keyed transmission

Nonlinear phase noise (Gordon-Mollenauer phase noise) can limit the transmission distance for phase-shift-keyed modulation formats. In this paper, the compensation of nonlinear phase noise by a midlink optical phase conjugation (OPC) is studied. A proof-of-principle experiment is presented showing an over 4-dB improvement in Q factor when OPC is employed in a differential phase-shift-keying (DPSK) system. Also, an ultra long-haul OPC-based differential quadrature phase-shift-keying (DQPSK) transmission experiment is studied to show the impact of self-phase modulation (SPM)-induced impairments, including nonlinear phase noise, in a transmission line. OPC results in a 44% increase in transmission distance when compared to a "conventional" transmission system using dispersion compensating fiber (DCF) for chromatic dispersion compensation.     

Performance characterization of a closed-loop chaotic communication system including fiber transmission in dispersion shifted fibers

The transmission performance of an all-optical closed-loop chaotic communication system is numerically studied, assuming various span lengths of dispersion shifted fiber between transmitter and receiver. Calculation of the mean synchronization error and Q-factor values obtained from the corresponding eye diagrams has been carried out for two encoding methods (chaotic modulation and chaos shift keying) and two repetition rates (2.4 and 5 Gbps). It is shown that transmission impairments including chromatic dispersion, fiber nonlinearity, fiber losses, and amplified spontaneous emission noise of the inline amplifiers degrade significantly the synchronization quality especially when high-bit-rate message encoding is applied. The influence of key system parameters such as launched optical power, amplifier spacing, positive or negative dispersion, etc., to the transmission performance has been investigated. Acceptable system performance can be achieved for approximately 200 km at 2.4 Gbps.     

光子晶体光纤在光通信中的色散补偿应用

通过合理设计可使光子晶体光纤具有较大的负色散,利用这一特性可以制作新型光纤器件,用于现代光纤通信系统的色散补偿,这可大大缩短色散补偿光纤的长度。阐述光子晶体光纤在现代宽带光通信系统的色散补偿技术中的应用潜力,并说明如何设计光子晶体光纤的几何结构来补偿目前商用光通信系统中传输光纤的色散。     

Ultralong lightwave systems with incomplete dispersioncompensations

Ultralong nonreturn-to-zero optical transmission systems with incomplete dispersion compensations are studied. The dispersion of transmission fiber is periodically under- or overcompensated. Postdispersion compensation (PDC) at the receiver is used to compensate for the residual dispersion caused by incomplete compensation and to tailor the signal pulse shape. Formulas estimating the change of pulse width in the absence of amplifier noise during signal transmission and after PDC are given. During signal transmission, pulse width may be compressed or broadened by the combined effect of the dispersion and self-phase modulation (SPM). The change of pulse width nearly increases with the square of the distance during signal transmission. With amplifier noise, system performance evaluated by Q factor is studied. Several types of transmission fibers are considered. The Q factor can be significantly improved by proper PDC. Signal pulse is compressed when PDC is optimized. The characteristics of the maximum Q factor and the residual dispersion are studied, in which PDC is optimized. The results show that to achieve the best system performance, fiber dispersion should be undercompensated for positive dispersion parameter and overcompensated for negative dispersion parameter. The optimal fiber dispersion lies in the range from 4 to 10 ps/km/nm for the considered systems, and the optimal ratio of residual dispersion and fiber dispersion is about 1%     

WDM+EDFA+DCF光纤传输系统中色散补偿方案的分析

由于在ＷＤＭ＋ＥＤＦＡ光纤传输系统中使用常规单模光纤（ＳＭＦ）在１５５０ｎｍ窗口的大色散限制了传输距离,采用色散补偿光纤（ＤＣＦ）进行色散补偿是上前一种较为理想的方法。本文基于光纤ＷＤＭ＋ＥＤＦＡ＋ＤＣＦ的长距离传输系统,讨论了ＤＣＦ色散补偿对光纤非线性效应交叉相位调制和四波混频（ＦＷＭ）的影响,提出了采用ＤＣＦ集总、后置、非完全补偿的色散补偿方案,这种方案可合系统具有更佳的传输性能。     

非相干光反馈的半导体激光器混沌保密通信性能分析及其仿真

首先研究了非相干光反馈同步系统内部参数失配对系统同步性能的影响,并与相干光反馈的完全同步系统以及广义同步系统进行了比较,其次研究了非相干光反馈采用三种不同的信号调制解调方式(CSK,CMS,ACM),对三种不同频率(250 MHz,2.5GHz和12.5GHz)的信号进行了调制解调。通过MATLAB仿真实验可知,非相干光反馈混沌同步系统相对于相干光反馈完全同步系统更易于实现,同时保留了一定的对参数失配的敏感特性,从而确保了该系统比相干光反馈广义同步具有更高的安全性;在信号解调时,CSK只能解调出250MHz信号,CMS能解调出2.5GHz信号,ACM能够解调出高达12.5GHz的信号。     

Development of novel fibers for telecoms application

This paper reviews the current situations of optical fibers used for terrestrial and submarine transmission systems as well as up-to-date R&;D on these fibers. The current fibers include standard single mode fibers (SMFs), non-zero dispersion shifted fibers (NZ-DSFs), and dispersion managed lines (DMLs). Even though these fibers show quite high and matured properties, the internet traffic is continuously growing, and around 2015–2020, it is expected that the current transmission fibers would become inadequate. To prepare for the future ultra high-capacity transmission, there are three important R&;D directions for transmission fibers. (1) Reducing non-linearity by means of enlarging Aeff and/or reducing attenuation loss. It is very important in the case of transmission systems using new multi-level signal formats. (2) Expanding the transmission band more than the current C- and/or L-Band by utilizing new transmission fibers. For example, holey fibers (HFs), which have an endlessly single mode (ESM) property, are one of the interesting candidates of the new transmission fibers. (3) Using Space Division Multiplexing (SDM) by using multi-core fibers. The multi-core fiber literally multiples the core number within a fiber dimension, which enables multiple transmission capacity per one fiber. In addition to the developments of transmission fibers, component fibers have also been studied and developed. Examples of R&;D on these component fibers will be also discussed in the latter part of this paper.     

一种采用光学相位分集接收技术的相干光正交频分复用远端接入系统

提出了一种采用基于光学相位分集接收技术实现远程相干光正交频分复用(CO-OFDM)信号的远程光接入方案,并进行了理论研究和仿真验证。在本方案中,没有使用色散补偿光纤(DCF)或者色散补偿模块(DCM)补偿光纤信道色散导致的负面效应,原因是CO-OFDM信号能有效抵抗传输过程中色度色散(CD)和偏振模色散(PMD)引起的负面效应。仿真结果表明,10Gbit/s CO-OOFDM信号在标准单模光纤(SMF-28)传输320km后,采用相位估计技术得到的OFDM电信号,其时域波形的相位抖动幅度更小;与采用光载波自提取技术接收相位调制COOFDM的方案进行比较,测试误差向量幅度(EVM)的结果表明,本文方案可以获得更好的COOFDM信号接收性能,星座图中星座点收敛更加紧凑,接收的CO-OFDM信号质量更高。     

通过恒包络调制提高相干光OFDM系统的光纤非线性容限

相干光正交频分复用(CO-OFDM)对光纤链路中 的色度色散(CD)和偏振模色散(PMD)具有较强的容忍性,但 是OFDM信号高峰均功率比(PAPR)的特点使其对光纤非线性效应 非常敏感,严重影响了系统传输性能。 本文提出了基于恒包络(CE)调制的方法使得系统中光信号PAPR降低为0dB,从而提高了CO-OFDM系统的非 线性传输性能。仿真结果表明,子载波采用16QAM调制的40Gbit/s单信道CE调制CO -OFDM系统,在经800km无色散补偿、欠色散补偿和周期全色散补偿 标准单模光纤(SSMF)链 路传输后,虽然较传统CO-OFDM存在约1.8dB的代价,但是系统最大 发射光功率分别提高 了6.2、9.3dB。并且,将本文方案应 用 到CO-OFDM和10Gbit/s NRZ-OOK混合传输WDM系统中,信道最大发 射光功率仍获得了5.2dB的提高。因此,本文提出的CE调制方法能有 效地提高CO-OFDM系统在不同传输环境中的光纤非线性容限。     

Fiber transmission for sub-500-fs pulses using adispersion-compensating fiber

We report transmission of ~60-fs and ~245-fs pulses, respectively, over 42-m and 2.5-km fiber links which consist of standard single-mode fibers (SMF) concatenated with dispersion-compensating fibers (DCF). The experiments using very short pulses (~60 fs) over a short fiber length (~42 m) demonstrate the ability to achieve simultaneous dispersion and dispersion slope compensation using this technique. Femtosecond spectral interferometry measurements of this 42-m link show that its residual dispersion slope is approximately six times lower than that of the dispersion-shifted fiber. Finally, to demonstrate that the dispersion-limited propagation distance is proportional to the cube of the pulsewidth, we transmit ~245-fs pulses over a 2.5-km SMF-DCF link and achieve comparable pulse restoration as with the shorter fiber experiments     

利用光纤环激光器和色散搭配的孤子传输

对不同波长的光脉冲在由正负色散光纤的组成的光纤链中的传输特性进行了数值和实验研究。实验结果和数值分析表明，在相同的初始条件下，短距离传输时，采用平均色散为正常色散的光纤传输要优于孤子传输方式，长距离传输时，采用孤子传输要优于脉冲在平均色散为正常色散的非线性光纤中传输。在正负色散位移的光纤链中的孤子传输，有一最佳波长。     

Bi-end dispersion compensation for ultralong optical communicationsystem

Bi-end dispersion compensation (DC) for ultralong nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) optical transmission system is studied. Both the loss and dispersion of the transmission fiber are periodically compensated. Two dispersive elements are placed at the input and output ends of a compensation period, respectively, to compensate for fiber dispersion. The pulse compression owing to self-phase modulation (SPM) can be adjusted by the compensation ratios of the dispersive elements at the two ends of a compensation period. Therefore, the pulse compression can be optimized and the system performance can be improved to compare with the system with either pre- or postdispersion compensation. The rules to design the system are considered. The transmission system of 10-Gb/s bit rate, 9000-km transmission distance, and 100-km compensation period is taken as an example. The second-order fiber dispersion is assumed to be completely compensated. Wave equation is numerically solved to study the system performance which is represented by Q factor. The relations of several system parameters and Q factor are studied. The system parameters include the compensation ratios of the dispersive elements at the two ends of a compensation period, dispersion of transmission fiber, signal power, and the compensation ratios of third-order fiber dispersion. If the third-order fiber dispersion cannot be completely compensated, it is found that one can use a higher signal power to improve the system performance     

Performance evaluation of the different types offiber-chromatic-dispersion equalization for IM-DD ultralong-distanceoptical communication systems with Er-doped fiber amplifiers

We have evaluated the transmission performance of different fiber-chromatic-dispersion-equalization methodologies for ultralong distance IM-DD optical communication systems that use Er-doped fiber amplifier repeaters. The experiment used a 1000 km fiber loop consisting of 30 dispersion-shifted fiber spans and 31 Er-doped fiber amplifiers. We changed the insertion point of the normal single-mode fiber for equalization to change the shape of the accumulated chromatic dispersion. Comparison of the longest transmission distance and the width of the 9000 km transmissible window are discussed for several types of dispersion equalization. The results indicate that the best type of the dispersion equalization for ultralong distance IM-DD optical communication systems is to install dispersion-shifted fibers with short sections of normal single-mode fibers to compensate the accumulated dispersion     

Chaos shift-keying encryption in chaotic external-cavitysemiconductor lasers using a single-receiver scheme

In this letter, we numerically show that chaos shift-keying (CSK) encryption can be achieved by using a single receiver, thus providing a better performance when comparing with the traditional CSK scheme based on two receivers. We analyze the rate equation model for two unidirectionally coupled single-mode external-cavity semiconductor lasers operating in a chaotic regime. The message is encoded in the emitter by slightly varying its injection current. We find that under appropriate conditions, the receiver laser synchronizes to the chaotic emitter, filtering the encoded message and allowing message extraction     

S波段分布式光纤拉曼放大器的实验研究

在S波段对3种不同配置的色散补偿型分布式光纤拉曼放大器(FRA)进行了研制。实验证明：5km DCF-50km G652光纤色散补偿型分布式FRA的增益和噪声特性优于50km、G652-5km DCF光纤和25km G652-5km DCF-25km G652光纤色散补偿型分布式FRA。测量了5km DCF-50km G652光纤色散补偿型分布式FRA的增益光谱和噪声谱。存DWDM光纤传输系统中,色散补偿分布式FRA对S波段1520nm光谱波段2个光谱间隔为0．262nm(频率间隔为34．1GHz)信号信道光谱的传输特性优于50km G652正色散FRA和5km DCF负色散FRA。     

Dispersion flattened transmission line consisting of wide-band non-zero dispersion shifted fiber and dispersion compensating fiber module

The transmission line consisting of non-zero dispersion shifted fibers (NZ–DSFs) and dispersion compensating fiber (DCF) modules has been proposed to enable the wide-band wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) transmission. The NZ–DSFs with the effective area over 60 μm² and the dispersion of +5–11 ps/nm/km (1500–1600 nm) have been developed to suppress the transmission penalty caused by the four-wave mixing. The DCF modules which compensate for the dispersion and the dispersion slope simultaneously have also been realized. To enhance the figure of merit (FOM) of the DCF by enlarging the absolute value of its dispersion is found to be an effective way to reduce the non-linear effects occuring in the DCF. The transmission line actually fabricated based on the optimized design exhibits an extremely low dispersion deviation of ±0.08 ps/nm/km in the C band.     

光纤脉冲分析仪的设计

针对光纤色散特性会引起传输信号的畸变,限制通信容量,指出对光纤色散参数、光信号在长距离传输后脉冲展宽程度的准确测量,可以提供可靠的设计数据来源,在实际的工程应用中有着重要意义.根据对色散基本理论的讨论,分析光脉冲在光纤中传播的展宽现象.自行研制了一套用于多模光纤色散测量的脉冲展宽测试设备,已应用在教学实验和工程实践中.