Transceiver scheme for single-carrier frequency division multiple access implementing the wavelet transform and peak-to-average-power ratio reduction methods

Single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) has been adopted as a possible air interface for future wireless networks. It combines most of the advantages of orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) and the low peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR) of single-carrier transmission. This study proposes a new transceiver scheme for SC-FDMA systems implementing the wavelet transform to decompose the transmitted signal into approximation and detail components. The approximation component can be clipped or companded whereas the detail component is left unchanged because of its sensitivity to noise. Wavelet filter banks at the transmitter and the receiver demonstrate the ability to reduce the distortion in the reconstructed signal while retaining all the significant features present in the signal. The performance of the proposed scheme is investigated with different PAPR reduction methods. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme with the hybrid clipping and companding method provides a significant performance enhancement when compared with the conventional SC-FDMA system, while the complexity of the system is slightly increased.     

Studies in an optical millimeter-wave generation scheme via two parallel dual-parallel Mach–Zehnder modulators

A novel filterless optical millimeter-wave generation scheme via two parallel dual-parallel Mach–Zehnder modulators (MZMs) is proposed. Theoretical analysis suggests that it can be used for the generation of millimeter-wave signal with octupling or 16-tupling of the local oscillator. An 80?GHz millimeter-wave is generated by octupling of a 10?GHz RF oscillator, or 16-tupling of a 5?GHz RF oscillator. Several influence factors on the performance of the optical sideband suppression ratio (OSSR) and the radio frequency spurious suppression ratio (RFSSR) are numerically studied. Simulation results show that the generated millimeter-wave can keep good performance, especially for octupling millimeter-wave generation; its performance is stable and insensitive to the extinction ratio of MZMs and the DC bias drift.     

Electronic subtracter for trace-gas detection with InGaAsP diode lasers

An electronic noise-cancellation scheme has been developed and tested for second-harmonic (2f) detection with short-external-cavity and distributed-feedback InGaAsP diode lasers and wavelength modulation. The 2f background signal and noise from, e.g., optical feedback, optical fringes, and power-supply pickup are effectively reduced by subtraction of a measure of the signal-beam photocurrent from a measure of the reference-beam photocurrent. The dynamic range required for the lock-in amplifier is also reduced because the signal owing to modulation of the laser output at the first harmonic is canceled. Reduction of the 2f background and dynamic range are important for atmospheric-pressure detection where a large wavelength modulation is necessary. The detector noise was minimized by the use of zero-biased detectors in the subtraction circuit. A beam-noise level (defined as 2× the rms value) equivalent to a line-center absorption of 1.6 × 10(-6) was achieved with an equivalent-noise bandwidth of 1.25 Hz for 2f detection at 10 kHz. The electronic circuit is easy to construct and low cost.     

Iterative cancellation of clipping noise in multilevel quadrature amplitude modulation multi-carrier CDMA system

An iterative reconstruction method that was proposed for clipping noise cancellation in orthogonal frequency domain multiplexing (OFDM) systems is applied to multilevel quadrature amplitude modulation-based multi-carrier (MC) code division multiple access signals in downlink. The iterative method uses a known distortion function, maybe a nonlinear one such as a successive clipping and filtering process, in the iterations to give an approximation of inverse of the distortion process and then the iterative method removes distortion under a convergence condition. The authors show that MC signal with properly chosen clipping threshold satisfies convergence conditions of the iterative method. In contrast to some of the other reconstruction-based techniques, this method requires no extra bandwidth and side information and it can be implemented with reasonable complexity. Furthermore, the authors show that the proposed iterative scheme can be enhanced by using an extra frequency bandwidth. Exploiting extra bandwidth improves the performance of the reconstruction-based methods in case of using successive clipping and filtering. Simulation results will be used to demonstrate achievable bit-error-rate improvement by the proposed enhanced iterative scheme.     

An optical millimeter-wave generation scheme based on two parallel dual-parallel Mach–Zehnder modulators and polarization multiplexing

A novel filterless optical millimeter-wave signal generation scheme is proposed. In the scheme, the undesired sidebands are suppressed using two parallel dual-parallel Mach–Zehnder modulators (MZMs) with different modulation indexes and polarization multiplexing, and frequency multiplication factor as high as 16 can be achieved. Simulation results show that 80, 120, and 160 GHz signals are generated through a 10 GHz RF signal using the proposed method, and the performance of the generated signals is good when commercially available MZMs with extinction ratio of 20–30 dB are used. The scheme has large tunability of modulation index for frequency octupling and 12-tupling signals generation and high stability against the RF driving voltage deviation for frequency 16-tupling generation.     

Design and characterization of a microchannel optical interconnect for optical backplanes

The design, modeling, and experimental characterization of a microchannel-based free-space optical interconnect is described. The microchannel interconnect was used to implement a representative portion of an optical backplane that was based on field-effect transistor, self-electro-optic device smart-pixel transceivers. Telecentric relays were used to form the optical interconnect, and two modes based on two different optical window clusterings were implemented. The optical system design, including the optical geometry for different degrees of clustering of windows supported by a lenslet relay and the image mapping associated with a free-space optical system, is described. A comparison of the optical beam properties at the device planes, including the spot size and power uniformity of the spot array, as well as the effects of clipping and misalignment for the different operating modes, is presented. In addition, the effects of beam clipping and misalignment for the different operating modes is presented. We show that microchannel free-space optical interconnects based on a window-clustering scheme significantly increase the connection density. A connection density of 2222 connections/cm(2) was achieved for this prototype system with 2 x 2 window clustering.     

System performances of optical space code-division multiple-access-based fiber-optic two-dimensional parallel data link

Optical space code-division multiple access is a scheme to multiplex and link data between two-dimensional processors such as smart pixels and spatial light modulators or arrays of optical sources like vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers. We examine the multiplexing characteristics of optical space code-division multiple access by using optical orthogonal signature patterns. The probability density function of interference noise in interfering optical orthogonal signature patterns is calculated. The bit-error rate is derived from the result and plotted as a function of receiver threshold, code length, code weight, and number of users. Furthermore, we propose a prethresholding method to suppress the interference noise, and we experimentally verify that the method works effectively in improving system performance.     

Coded-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing in hybrid optical networks

Future Internet should be able to support a wide range of services containing large amount of multimedia over different network types at a high speed. The future optical networks will therefore be hybrid, composed of different single-mode fibre (SMF), multi-mode fibre (MMF) and free-space optical (FSO) links. In these networks, novel modulation and coding techniques are needed that are capable of dealing with different channel impairments, be it in SMF, MMF or FSO links. The authors propose a coded-modulation scheme suitable for use in hybrid FSO - fibre-optics networks. The proposed scheme is based on polarization-multiplexing and coded - orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) with large girth quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes as channel codes. The proposed scheme is able to simultaneously deal with atmospheric turbulence, chromatic dispersion and polarisation mode dispersion (PMD). With a proper design for 16-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM)-based polarisation-multiplexed coded-OFDM, the aggregate data rate of 100 Gb/s can be achieved for OFDM signal bandwidth of only 12.5 GHz, which represents a scheme compatible with 100 Gb/s per wavelength channel transmission and 100 Gb/s Ethernet.     

高精度光学定时探测技术及其应用研究

被动固体锁模激光器的发明拉开了高精度定时探测技术高速发展的序幕,近三十年来,多种降低测量本底噪声的定时探测技术应运而生,不断逼近锁模激光器高频定时抖动测量的极限（远小于1 fs）,这些定时探测器的分辨力、鲁棒性、稳定性、功耗等多项指标也有着突破性的进步。本文介绍了目前较为主流的光学定时探测手段,包括直接检测、BOC技术、AOM探测、光学外差技术等,分析了各种定时探测器的优势与应用场景,阐述了高精度定时探测技术在相干脉冲合成、自由电子激光等大型科学装置中发挥的重要作用,最后对光学定时探测器的发展方向做出展望,旨在通过综述各种光学定时探测技术,为推动阿秒科学、定时同步等高精尖领域的发展提供技术参考与借鉴。     

Transmission surveillance and self-restoration against fibre fault for time division multiplexing using passive optical network

This study proposes a practical transmission surveillance and self-protection scheme for time division multiplexing using passive optical network (TDM-PON) with centralised monitoring and self-restorable apparatus. Troubleshooting a TDM-PON involves locating and identifying the source of an optical problem in what may be a complex optical network topology that includes several optical line terminals (OLTs), optical splitters, fibres and optical network units (ONUs). Since most components in the network are passive, a large part of the issues are due to dirty/damaged/misaligned connectors or breaks/macrobends in optical fibre cables. These will affect one, some or all subscribers in the network, depending on the location of the problems. The proposed scheme is able to prevent and detect the occurrence of fibre faults in a network system through centralised monitoring and remotely operate from a central office via Ethernet connection. Even with fibre fault prevention mechanisms, failures will still occur. Therefore fibre fault detection is required in order to detect potential faults and precisely localise the exact failure location.Whenever any failure occurs on the primary entity, the proposed system can protect and switch the failure line to the protection line to ensure that traffic flows continuously. Meanwhile, the failure information will be delivered to field engineers for taking appropriate recovery action to treat the fibre fault and failure link. One suggestion in point-to-multipoint (P2PM) applications has been proposed with the experimental results as the feasibility approach. This approach has bright prospects for improving the survivability and reliability as well as increasing the efficiency and monitoring capabilities in TDM-PON.     

Free-space wavelength-multiplexed optical scanner

A wavelength-multiplexed optical scanning scheme is proposed for deflecting a free-space optical beam by selection of the wavelength of the light incident on a wavelength-dispersive optical element. With fast tunable lasers or optical filters, this scanner features microsecond domain scan setting speeds and large- diameter apertures of several centimeters or more for subdegree angular scans. Analysis performed indicates an optimum scan range for a given diffraction order and grating period. Limitations include beam-spreading effects based on the varying scanner aperture sizes and the instantaneous information bandwidth of the data-carrying laser beam.     

OFDM削波噪声迭代消除算法

高峰均功率比(PAPR)的OFDM信号通过功率放大器的时候会产生非线性干扰,同时降低了放大器的工作效率。传统削波算法可以降低信号的PAPR,但是会带来较大的频谱扩展。作为一种新的削波算法,误差削波可以在降低OFDM信号PAPR值的同时不带来任何频谱扩展。但是这种削波会给信号带来更大的带内干扰噪声。提出了一种OFDM削波噪声迭代估计和消除算法,它能有效的消除由于误差削波带来的噪声。新方法通过建立削波噪声模型,在接收端根据该噪声模型用迭代的方法重新产生削波噪声。仿真结果表明,使用削波噪声消除算法后,使得系统的误码率性能接近未削波信号的水平。     

信号音检测在噪声消除系统中的实现

将噪声消除系统应用在手机的下行链路时,在消除环境背景噪声的同时,发现下行信号音失真。这是因为噪声消除系统中的VAD（Voice Activity Detection）算法对功率剧烈变化的信号音敏感造成的。经过详细研究信号音的时频特性,以及网络传输的误差因素,提出了一种新的适用于下行噪声抑制系统的信号音检测算法,这种算法利用每帧信号的频域功率变化和时域信号周期变化来检测信号音,经过理论评估和实际验证,该算法在不影响噪声消除系统的功能前提下,能准确地检测出信号音,从而避免了失真的发生。     

Field-programmable logic devices with optical input-output

A field-programmable logic device (FPLD) with optical I/O is described. FPLD's with optical I/O can have their functionality specified in the field by means of downloading a control-bit stream and can be used in a wide range of applications, such as optical signal processing, optical image processing, and optical interconnects. Our device implements six state-of-the-art dynamically programmable logic arrays (PLA's) on a 2 mm x 2 mm die. The devices were fabricated through the Lucent Technologies-Advanced Research Projects Agency-Consortium for Optical and Optoelectronic Technologies in Computing (Lucent/ARPA/COOP) workshop by use of 0.5-mum complementary metal-oxide semiconductor-self-electro-optic device technology and were delivered in 1998. All devices are fully functional: The electronic data paths have been verified at 200 MHz, and optical tests are pending. The device has been programmed to implement a two-stage optical switching network with six 4 x 4 crossbar switches, which can realize more than 190 x 10(6) unique programmable input-output permutations. The same device scaled to a 2 cm x 2 cm substrate could support as many as 4000 optical I/O and 1 Tbit/s of optical I/O bandwidth and offer fully programmable digital functionality with approximately 110,000 programmable logic gates. The proposed optoelectronic FPLD is also ideally suited to realizing dense, statically reconfigurable crossbar switches. We describe an attractive application area for such devices: a rearrangeable three-stage optical switch for a wide-area-network backbone, switching 1000 traffic streams at the OC-48 data rate and supporting several terabits of traffic.     

Internally coded time-hopping coherent ultra-short light pulse code division multiple access scheme with optical amplifier and its performance analysis using additive noise model

The internally coded time-hopping coherent ultra-short light pulse code division multiple access (CULP CDMA) scheme (recently introduced) with an optical amplifier is described and its performance in fibreoptic communication systems is analysed. In accordance with the important role of optical amplifiers in optical communication systems, a preamplifier at the input of the receiver is used in order to compensate the losses because of the spectral encoder, spectral decoder and optical fibre path. The authors evaluate the bit error rate of the system considering the effects of the multiple access interference, noise because of the optical amplifier and thermal noise using saddle point approximation, and compare the results with those of the conventional CULP CDMA system with and without an amplifier. The numerical results indicate a substantial improvement in the performance of the coded system in comparison with the uncoded one. In addition, the negative effect of amplifier noise in the proposed scheme is much less than that of the conventional CULP CDMA system.     

A high-quality 120 GHz millimeter-wave generation without laser phase noise

A 120-GHz millimeter-wave system using two lasers and two Mach–Zehnder modulation (MZM) with frequency 8-tupling of the radio frequency local oscillator’s signal frequency is proposed and demonstrated. The first MZM is the even-order harmonic modulations output and then optical filter filters the 0-order wave. The second MZM is the single sideband suppression output. In the system, two light components with the same phase noise are generated. The millimeter wave can avoid the laser phase noise. It has simplified the system, so the fibre dispersion is reduced.     

Efficient optical packet-generation and -compression scheme

An efficient optical packet-generation and -compression scheme is proposed. Packet compression is achieved when the packet is sent through a series of semiconductor optical amplifiers, which have either a transmitting or an absorbing state. The proposed scheme requires no fast electronics and uses exceptionally simple devices such as a tapped series of D flip-flops and frequency dividers. A detailed performance analysis on the system size limitations is also provided by the consideration of pulse-spreading effects and semiconductor optical-amplifier noise.     

Shack-Hartmann sensor improvement using optical binning

We present a design improvement for a recently proposed type of Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor that uses a cylindrical (lenticular) lenslet array. The improved sensor design uses optical binning and requires significantly fewer detector pixels than the corresponding conventional or cylindrical Shack-Hartmann sensor, and so detector readout noise causes less signal degradation. Additionally, detector readout time is significantly reduced, which reduces the latency for closed loop systems and data processing requirements. We provide simple analytical noise considerations and Monte Carlo simulations, we show that the optically binned Shack-Hartmann sensor can offer better performance than the conventional counterpart in most practical situations, and our design is particularly suited for use with astronomical adaptive optics systems.     

空间光通信系统的设计及实现

提出一种较全面的空间光通信系统结构。该系统的光发射接收子系统采用三发三收的设计方法,以增大光的发射功率和接收功率;APT子系统采用望远镜进行粗瞄准,音频调制光标信号进行精瞄准;控制子系统采用Ethernet接口,远程通过Internet对系统进行测量和控制的设计方法。给出一个近地大气空间光通信系统的设计实例, 其信号传输速率为155Mbps,传输距离为4km,在误码率不大于10-9条件下,系统接收灵敏度达到-52dBm。