Polarization independent coherent optical receiver

This paper describes an optical heterodyne receiver for DPSK signals which can receive an optical signal having an arbitrary polarization state. This is achieved by splitting the received signal between two orthogonal polarization axes and processing the resulting two signals as in a conventional DPSK heterodyne receiver. The sum of the two demodulated signals provides a baseband signal independent of the polarization state of the received optical signal. When the receiver noise is dominated by the shot noise of the photodetectors, the receiver provides a BER of 10^-9for an average number of 22 photon/bit. In comparison, a conventional optical heterodyne receiver requires under the same noise condition 20 photon/bit to achieve the same BER for a received optical signal polarized along the polarization axis of the local optical signal.     

Sensitivity improvement of a 2 Gb/s quadrature phase shift keyedsubcarrier multiplexed system by use of an optical preamplifier

A traveling wave semiconductor optical amplifier is used as a receiver preamplifier in a quadrature-phase-shift-keyed subcarrier multiplexed system. The intensity-modulated signal from a 1509-m distributed feedback laser bears two 1-Gb/s data signals on a 5-GHz subcarrier. The receiver preamplifier yields a 9.2-dB sensitivity improvement to -29.2 dBm. The system noise sources are measured. Theoretical and measured bit error rates versus received power are presented     

Effect of PMD—induced Pulse Broadening on Sensitivity and Frequency Spectrum

The PMD-induced pulse broadening may cause the degradation of receiver sensitivity and has negative effects on the power spectrum of received signals,The expressions of PMD-induced pulse broadening effects on receiver sensitivity are derived based on the concept of mean square pulse width.The effects of PMD on the spectrum of received power are analyzed in detail.Finally,the scheme is discussed with which the power of a certain frequency component is extracted as a feedback control signal in a PMD compensation system.     

Automatic classification of multiple signals using 2D matching of magnitude–frequency density features

Signal classification is an important function of modern communication systems in software defined radio applications. The ability to quickly recognize the type of received signals allows a system to automatically adapt the processor to properly decode the signals. Many classification techniques assume that the received signal space is occupied by only one signal, and that the frequency of operation is known. However, in some systems, the receiver may be completely blind to the number and characteristics of signals within the bandwidth of interest. The technique introduced in this study proposes the collapsing of localized magnitude peaks from consecutive short time discrete fourier transform bins into magnitude histograms to create a two dimensional image of the frequency?Cmagnitude density of the received signal space. This image can be a useful visualization tool in the characterization of the signal space in user assisted modes of classification. Alternatively, the process could be automated by utilizing pattern recognition and image processing algorithms. Automatic signal classification is explored in this study.     

Maximum A Posteriori Estimator for Suppression of Interchannel Interference in FM Receivers

In this paper an FM detector capable of suppressing the degradation in receiver performance due to the presence of an interfering signal is presented. Optimum receiver structures based on maximum-aposteriori estimation procedures are first derived and then a practical demodulator based on the optimum receivers is examined. The receiver consists of two phase-locked loops (PLL) interconnected in a manner to permit one PLL to lock onto and track the Stronger received FM signal while the other loop tracks the weaker of the two received FM signals. The detector has the capability of demodulating both the desired received FM as well as the interferer even for the case when both signals are co-channel. Experimental results demonstrating such capability even in the presence of strong input Gaussian noise are presented.     

High two-signal dynamic range and accurate frequency measurement for close frequency separation wideband digital receiver using adaptive gain control and adaptive thresholding

In electronic-warfare (EW) receiver applications, real-time measurement of the radar signals' carrier frequencies is mandatory and considered to be one of the most important radar parameters. Accurate frequency detection can be used to sort and deinterleave signals in a dense signal environment where multiple signals arrive simultaneously presenting severe problems unless they can be differentiated appropriately. Researchers and engineers are actively looking for new algorithms for high resolution wideband receivers with easier implementation. This paper presents an adaptive gain control and dynamic thresholding wideband digital receiver to accurately detect two simultaneous high dynamic range signals, even when their signal frequencies are very close. The proposed fast Fourier transform (FFT) based receiver examines incoming signal characteristics and provides real-time accomplishment of these tasks, by way of using an adaptive gain-control amplifier, a squarer, two analog-to-digital converters, and two FFT's. The wideband receiver offers high probability of intercept over wide instantaneous RF bandwidths, high dynamic ranges and sensitivity. Two simultaneous signal accommodations and their characteristics are provided to demonstrate the improvements over presently used receivers in this field.     

Pre-Coding for MIMO Systems in Frequency-Selective Fading Channels

Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems showed good utilization of channel characteristics. In MIMO systems multiple signals are transmitted using multiple antenna system. This provides each receiver the combined signals and hence, array processing techniques helps in reducing the effects of interference among them. In this paper we devise the use of pre-coded MIMO system to reduce the effects of frequency selectivity and hence, enhance the systems capacity and/or reduce the bit error rate. In this technique we introduce a temporal pre-coder on each antenna signal; this creates a deterministic multi-path signals similar to signals received when the channel is multi-path fading channel. The same antenna signal will arrive at each receiver forming orthogonal sub-space and the receiver will be simple add and delay of the received signals. Ant colony optimization is used in this paper to select the best pre-code. Results showed that we can diagonalize the channel matrix and practically eliminate the interference for frequency selective fading channel. Simulation of two transmitting two receiving antennas pre-coded MIMO system showed that the capacity can be doubled.     

Generalized quadratic receivers for orthogonal signals over theGaussian channel with unknown phase/fading

The orthogonal signal structure has been shown to be the superposition of an antipodal signal set and an unmodulated (pilot tone) component which can be used for channel measurement. Starting from this point of view, the quadratic receiver for orthogonal signals over the Gaussian channel with unknown phase/fading has been shown to be equivalent to a detector-estimator receiver. The estimator makes an optimum estimate of the unknown complex channel gain based on the channel measurement provided by the unmodulated component of the received signal. This channel estimate then forms a (partially) coherent reference for the detector in detecting the data carried by the antipodal signaling component of the received signal. This paper exploits this detector-estimator structure of the quadratic receiver, and generalizes it to a receiver in which the estimator makes an estimate of the channel gain in each signaling interval based on the totality of signals received over all the signaling intervals or a subset of these intervals. The generalized quadratic receiver is just as simple to implement as the conventional quadratic receiver, and theoretical and simulation results show that it can achieve substantial performance gains over the conventional receiver. A theory is presented to show that the generalized quadratic receiver is an implementable approximation to the optimum symbol-by-symbol receiver for uncoded orthogonal signals over the Gaussian channel with unknown phase/fading. The theory shows that the structure provides a unified and systematic approach to the design of coherent symbol-by-symbol receivers, and shows that the conventional carrier-loop-type receivers are ad hoc     

A Receiver Architecture for Dual-Antenna Systems

The signals received by two antennas can be processed by a single time-shared receiver but only in the absence of interferers and channel-select filters. A low-IF receiver architecture is introduced that translates two antenna signals to positive and negative frequencies in the complex domain, reducing the number of baseband A/D converters by a factor of two. A dual-receiver prototype designed and fabricated in 0.18-mum CMOS technology provides a sensitivity of -72 dBm with an EVM of -25 dB for 64 QAM signals while drawing 60.2 mW from a 1.8-V supply.     

基于AlGaN/GaN HEMT太赫兹探测器的340 GHz无线通信接收前端

利用天线耦合AlGaN/GaN HEMT太赫兹探测器的自混频和外差混频效应,分别设计并测试了340 GHz频段直接检波式和外差混频式接收机前端。通过接收机信噪比的测量和接收功率的定标,得到了两种接收机的等效噪声功率。直接检波模式下探测器的响应度约为20 mA/W,直接检波模式和外差混频模式下接收机的等效噪声功率分别约为?64.6 dBm/Hz1/2和?114.79 dBm/Hz。在相同的载波功率和接收信号带宽条件下,当本振太赫兹波功率大于?7 dBm时,外差混频接收的信噪比优于直接检波的信噪比。当本振功率大于0 dBm时,外差混频接收机表现出优良的解调特性,其信噪比高出直接检波接收机的信噪比10 dB以上。     

基于EBSBL-BO算法的L-DACS系统干扰抑制方法

L频段数字航空通信系统（L-band digital aviation communication system,L-DACS）是未来面向航路阶段的空地数据链路,其工作频段部署在两个测距仪（distance measure equipment,DME）工作频段之间,为了消除测距仪产生的高功率脉冲信号对L-DACS系统前向链路正交频分复用接收机的干扰,本文提出基于扩展稀疏贝叶斯-边界优化（extended block sparse Bayesian learning-boundary optimization,EBSBL-BO）算法的高功率DME脉冲干扰抑制方法。首先,利用L-DACS系统正交频分复用接收机的空子载波建立DME干扰信号压缩感知模型;然后,基于EBSBL-BO算法对DME信号进行重构;最后将高功率DME脉冲信号在时域消除。仿真结果显示：本文算法与其他稀疏贝叶斯重构算法相比,本文算法DME脉冲信号重构精度更高,正交频分复用接收机误码率更低,可有效改善L-DACS系统正交频分复用接收性能。     

Output effect of a quadrature receiver with an input band-pass filter at reception of a phase-keyed wideband signal

An output effect of a quadrature correlation receiver with an input band-pass filter at reception of a phase-keyed wideband signal is considered. Analytical expressions for output effect of a receiver proportional to the absolute value of a complex envelope of a cross-correlation function for received and reference signals are obtained. Dependences of cross-correlation function absolute value on a time delay, frequency mismatch of a received and reference signals, and passband width of input filter are analyzed. It is shown, that cross-correlation function’s maximum is reached in case of non-zero time delay of a received signal when there is no frequency mismatch between input and reference signals. The time delay value corresponding to cross-correlation function’s maximum depends on passband width of input filter.     

Optical receiver front-end for multilevel signalling

A front-end optical receiver in 0.6 mm BiCMOS technology is introduced to maintain equally spaced levels and constant output signal swing for multilevel signals at different input optical powers. The symbol error rate measurements for 4-PAM signals show a better sensitivity than with a conventional optical receiver. It is believed that this is the first time that complete performance characteristics for an optical receiver front-end designed especially for multilevel data transmission have been reported.     

Design of Reader Baseband Receiver Structure for Demodulating Backscattered Tag Signal in a Passive RFID Environment

In this paper, we present a demodulation structure suitable for a reader baseband receiver in a passive radio frequency identification (RFID) environment. In a passive RFID configuration, an undesirable DC‐offset phenomenon may appear in the baseband of the reader receiver, which can severely degrade the performance of the extraction of valid information from the received tag signal. To eliminate this DC‐offset phenomenon, the primary feature of the proposed demodulation structures for the received FM0 and Miller subcarrier signals is to reconstruct the signal corrupted by the DC‐offset phenomenon by creating peak signals from the corrupted signal. It is shown that the proposed method can successfully detect valid data, even when the received baseband signal is distorted by the DC‐offset phenomenon.     

时变均匀分布信号的自适应信道化滤波接收技术

在非合作接收中,常常会面临接收带宽内多路通信问题,其信号带宽、位置及个数对接收端来说都是未知的,在现代电子战中,信号还往往具有时变性。针对此问题,本文提出一种针对时变均匀分布信号的自适应信道化接收算法及其系统实现方案,该方法包含动态信道化内核设计、无盲区接收、频谱拼接、参数估计以及偏差校正自适应接收,能够在缺乏先验信息的前提下对均匀分布的时变中频多路信号进行信道化接收。实验结果表明,该方案能有效克服频偏等未知因素的影响,使各路输出的中心频点较准确的对准0频,在无人值守的情况下实现自适应接收。      

On the architecture and performance of an FFT-based spread-spectrumdownlink RAKE receiver

This paper describes a spread-spectrum downlink RAKE receiver that computes data detection in the frequency domain. We assume a pilot signal is transmitted with data signals for channel sounding. The pilot signal does not degrade the receiver bit error rate (BER) performance because the receiver estimates the pilot signal and subtracts the estimated pilot signal from the received signal before data detection. A spreading code matched filter, a channel matched filter, and a sounding receiver are implemented by fast Fourier transform (FFT)-based matched filtering and integrated in a unified architecture. Monte Carlo simulation is used to evaluate the receiver BER performance in both a static channel and a mobile radio channel. Simulation results show that the RAKE receiver performs well in both kinds of channels     

Cross-Coupled Phase-Locked Loop with Closed Loop Amplitude Control

In this work a new version of the cross-coupled phaselocked loop (CCPLL) interference canceller is presented. This detector consists of two phase-locked loop (PLL) demodulators interconnected in such a manner as to permit one PLL to lock onto and track the instantaneous frequency of the stronger received signal, while the other loop tracks and demodulates the weaker of two received signals. In addition, the receiver includes control loops to estimate the instantaneous amplitude of both received signals. This demodulator, therefore, has the capability of detecting both the desired and interfering signals, even though the interferer may be stronger than the desired signal and may share the same frequency band. The defining nonlinear differential equations for the CCPLL structure are derived and transient acquisition responses are obtained using computer-aided analysis. The CCPLL has numerous technological applications in suppressing a wide variety of cochannel and adjacent channel interferers.     

窄带恒包络信号存在相差的时延估计新方法

在时差定位应用中,两部侦收天线传输给接收机的是射频信号,频率较高,接收机需要将其下变频到某一中频,在中频采样后,送给时延估计器进行时延估计,以确定辐射源位置。在研究中发现,应用同一本振信号对两路存在相对时差的窄带恒包络信号进行下变频时,会引入新的相差,这个新的相差会导致时延估计值错误。针对此问题,提出了一种新的补偿此相差的时延估计方法,计算机仿真验证了新方法的有效性和正确性。      

8 Gbit/s FSK modulation of DFB lasers with optical demodulation

Single-contact DFB lasers were frequency modulated by pseudorandom data at rates up to 8 Gbit/s by direct current modulation with no pre-equalisation of the modulation signal. The signals were optically demodulated by Fabry-Perot interferometers for conversion to ASK signals which were detected by a direct-detection receiver. At 8 Gbit/s the receiver sensitivity was -22 dBm.<>     

Performance implications of time delay and responsivity mismatchfor balanced CPFSK lightwave receivers

The performance implications of time delay mismatch and photodiode responsivity mismatch are assessed for balanced CPFSK heterodyne receivers with differential detection. The receiver sensitivity is determined using a technique which combines computer simulation for characterizing the signal at the receiver output with a formula-based method of evaluating the bit error ratio. This approach permits consideration of laser phase noise, local oscillator intensity noise, nonlinear signal processing, and nonideal components. The numerical results quantify the penalty in receiver sensitivity due to mismatch, for different levels of local oscillator intensity noise. It is determined that time delay mismatch primarily affects the intensity noise contribution to the IF signal, while responsivity mismatch primarily affects the received signal component of the IF signal