Wideband optical image rejection receiver and its crosstalk penalty

Demonstrates an optical-frequency image rejection receiver with more than 18 dB suppression over the 1.5-3.0 GHz IF region. The measured crosstalk penalties were less than 1.4 dB in a 2-channel 560 Mbit/s DPSK heterodyne optical communication system.<>     

Phase noise cancellation in a carrier recovered optical heterodynereceiver

The performance and application of an optical heterodyne receiver which uses a carrier recovery demodulator are described. Phase sensitive demodulators used in coherent optical transmission are compared, and the suppression of both phase noise and frequency instability of light sources by a carrier recovery (CR-) demodulator is described. A carrier recovered PSK (CR-PSK) demodulator and a phase noise canceling circuit (PNC) for a coherent SCM receiver are introduced as examples of CR-demodulators. The relationship between laser diode spectral linewidths and the delay time difference between the two paths in the CR-PSK demodulator necessary to keep the system performance within a certain power penalty is then derived. In a preliminary experiment using 560-Mb/s CR-PSK transmission, a receiver sensitivity of -51.6 dBm was obtained, and a laser phase noise suppression of about ¹/₂ that of DPSK was confirmed. The results suggest the possibility of constructing a heterodyne receiver which has no AFC-loop. Applications of a CR-demodulator to an optical frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system and to a multivalue modulation scheme are discussed     

Crosstalk in a two channel coherent fiber optic FSK system using asemiconductor laser amplifier

Bit-error-rate measurements on a two-channel optical transmission system using a low-reflectivity laser amplifier are presented. The signal lasers are directly frequency-modulated or amplitude-modulated at 1 Gb/s. The crosstalk penalties in an FSK-FSK system are very small and are mainly attributed to the residual small amplitude modulation of the lasers resulting from the direct frequency modulation. The crosstalk in an ASK-FSK system is considerably larger     

The effect of crosstalk and phase noise in multichannel coherentoptical DPSK systems with tight IF filtering

Results for two-channel differential-phase-shift-keying (DPSK) systems using finite integrator and raised cosine response IF filters are presented. The sensitivity of an optical receiver in a two-channel DPSK system is studied. The results are compared with previous work in the limit of no phase noise and it is shown that the agreement is good. The penalty due to crosstalk for different linewidths and filter shapes is computed, and it is shown that the minimum channel spacing is a few bit rates for an ideal integrator IF filter and is larger for an IF filter with a raised cosine impulse response. The penalty is increased somewhat by phase noise     

Crosstalk penalty in a two-channel ASK heterodyne detection system with non-negligible laser line width

Crosstalk penalties as a function of channel spacing were measured in a two-channel ASK heterodyne system using 1·55?m DFB lasers. For an IF linewidth/bit rate ratio of 0.5, the channel spacing in the IF domain must be greater than 13 times the bit rate for negligible crosstalk penalty.     

Modulation and demodulation techniques in optical heterodyne PSKtransmission systems

Modulation and demodulation techniques are described for an optical PSK heterodyne transmission system operating at 560 Mb/s and 1.2 Gb/s. Performance limitations affecting the receiver sensitivity in a 1.2-Gb/s DPSK system, such as laser phase noise, phase modulation depth, IF center frequency deviation, and local laser power, are studied. High receiver sensitivities for PSK systems were achieved. The applicability of the Mach-Zehnder modulator as a phase modulator for 1.2-Gb/s DPSK is also demonstrated. A 1.2-Gb/s DPSK transmission of over 100 km, using polarization diversity with novel polarization-insensitive automatic frequency control in an attempt to overcome signal fading caused by polarization fluctuation in the transmitting fiber, is also described. A receiver sensitivity of less than -42.8 dBm and varying within 1.4 dB for all states of polarization was achieved. A multichannel high-definition TV (HDTV) transmission experiment using a DPSK polarization-diversity tunable receiver is described     

Crosstalk and prefiltering in a two-channel ASK heterodynedetection system without the effect of laser phase noise

The authors present an experimental and theoretical study on the crosstalk in a two-channel amplitude-shift keying (ASK) heterodyne detection system in which the effect of laser phase noise is negligible. Three results are described: (1) the dependence of the crosstalk penalty on the ratio of channel separation to bit rate and on the optical power level of the image band (2) comparison of the measured crosstalk penalities with the ones obtained from a simple model, and (3) the effect of electrical prefiltering on the crosstalk penalty. It is concluded that the channel separation can be as low as four times the bit rate without incurring any crosstalk penalty as long as the optical power of the image band is comparable to the optical power of the desired channel. In addition, electrical prefiltering of the transmitted signals significantly reduces the crosstalk penalty in multichannel ASK heterodyne systems in which the effect of laser phase noise is negligible     

560 Mbit/s optical PSK heterodyne detection using carrier recovery

An optical PSK heterodyne synchronous detection experiment was performed at a bit rate of 560 Mbit/s using carrier recovery in the IF stage. A receiver sensitivity of -51.6 dBm was achieved, and the power penalty due to the phase noise of the laser diodes was suppressed to less than that of DPSK.<>     

Phase diversity techniques for coherent optical receivers

In the present state of the art, coherent optical receivers most often operate in the heterodyne mode. Here a photodiode-amplifier combination having bandwidth greater than twice the bit rate (B) is needed: indeed bandwidths considerably greater than2Bare preferably employed to ease design of the bandpass filter needed for noise limitation, and to avoid demodulator penalties in some modulation schemes. For the high bit rate systems now coming into service (560 Mbit/s-2.4 Gbit/s), the optical receiver design requirements become more stringent for coherent heterodyne operation. The various modes of "zero IF" operation, however, require only baseband receiver module bandwidth. The options available are either homodyne (phase locked) operation, or phase diversity (multiport) techniques. In this paper, we compare these options, and show that phase diversity techniques are capable of good performance for high bit rate coherent receivers. In phase diversity operation, not only is phase locking avoided, but also the necessary frequency locking does not have high stability requirements. Furthermore, there are advantages in operating with a small frequency offset from zero (of the order of 1 percent of the bit rate). An experimental receiver has been operated at 320 and 680 Mbit/s, demodulating both amplitude shift keying (ASK) and differential phase shift keying (DPSK). Operation with FSK is also possible. Sensitivities so far achieved of -47.5 dBm (320-Mbit/s ASK) and -42 dBm (680- Mbit/s ASK) with limited local oscillator power are capable of substantial improvement when higher power local oscillators and lower noise receive modules become available. Demodulation of DPSK at 320 Mbit/s has also been achieved and shows a measured receiver sensitivity improvement of over 4 dB over ASK at the same bit rate and local oscillator power. These practical results show clearly that phase diversity is a very realistic option for high bit rate systems.     

400 Mbit/s optical heterodyne DPSK system experiment with inline1.5 μm amplifiers

Reports a 400 Mbit/s differential phase shift keying (DPSK) heterodyne optical transmission system experiment using two inline packaged resonant type amplifiers. The optical amplifier gave a 14.5 dB net gain from fibre to fibre at λ=1.488 μm with no significant system penalty     

Effect of laser linewidth on crosstalk penalty in two-channel ASKheterodyne detection system

The effect of laser linewidth on the crosstalk penalty in a two-channel ASK heterodyne system is calculated through a simple frequency domain analysis. The results show that the crosstalk penalty increases steeply when the linewidth at the IF stage exceeds one-tenth of the bit rate. The results of calculation show very good agreement with experiment by Park et al     

fso中一种光载波外差dpsk系统的设计

介绍了自由空间光通信中的相干通信系统,通过对相干光通信中振幅键控(ASK),频移键控(FSK),相移键控(PSK),差分相移键控(DPSK)四种光载波相干调制方式性能的分析和比较,仿真结果得出PSK调制误码性能更好,提出了一种光载波外差差分相移键控(DPSK)系统.     

Effect of external cavity semiconductor laser phase noise on a DPSKheterodyne optical receiver

The effect of an external cavity semiconductor laser on the performance of a DPSK heterodyne optical system is evaluated. The actual shape of the frequency fluctuation spectral density of the optical source is taken into account, and a comparison with a PSK coherent heterodyne system is carried out     

Impact of finite laser linewidth on the performance of OFDMnetworks employing single-cavity Fabry-Perot demultiplexers

In this paper we investigate the impact of finite laser linewidths (i.e. source partial coherence) on the crosstalk performance of optical frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) networks employing single-cavity Fabry-Perot demultiplexers. Results are presented that show the important limitation imposed by the finite laser linewidths on the attainable bit error rate (BER), maximum number of users, and the required power penalties to overcome this impairment     

Optical DPSK heterodyne detection experiments using DBR laser diodes with external optical feedback

High receiver sensitivity, with 7 dB improvement over a direct detection system, has been achieved in a 400 Mbit/s optical DPSK heterodyne detection experiment using DBR laser diodes with external optical feedback. The influence of the laser output phase noise was evaluated experimentally in good agreement with theory.     

Analysis of the automatic frequency control in heterodyne opticalreceivers

A theoretical analysis of the automatic frequency control (AFC) in binary DPSK and FSK heterodyne optical receivers is presented, and its impact on the system performance is evaluated. The effects of the shot-noise AM/FM conversion in the frequency discriminator are analyzed. It is shown that with commercial DFB lasers a common analysis of the frequency control loop can be done for the three modulations considered. Design guidelines are given that account for the presence of the AFC loop by properly using some performance results derived in the assumption of perfect frequency tracking     

Combining DPSK and duobinary for the downstream in 40-Gb/s long-reach WDM-PONs

We propose and demonstrate combining differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) and duobinary transmission for the downstream in 40-Gb/s long-reach wavelength division multiplexed-passive optical networks (WDM-PONs) in order to provide robust transmission performance in the backhaul section and simple detection at the ONUs. DPSK is deployed in the trunk span as it provides stronger robustness to fiber nonlinearity. Duobinary is used in the access span where its higher chromatic dispersion tolerance relieves the need for dispersion compensation. All-optical multichannel modulation format conversion from DPSK to duobinary is realized in the local exchange in a single delay interferometer to reduce system cost. Single and multi-channel 80-km long-reach DPSK transmission and up to 5-km duobinary access transmission are experimentally demonstrated at 40 Gb/s. The proposed approach shows great potential for future high data rate optical access networks.     

A novel non-uniform spacing coherent heterodyne WDM system with high channel efficiency

A novel non-uniform spacing coherent heterodyne wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) system is proposed, analyzed and investigated in this paper. High channel efficiency is realized by reducing the average channel space to half the value of the traditional uniform spacing WDM systems. Simulation shows that the proposed scheme exhibits excellent laser line width toleration of 10 MHz and channel space deviation toleration of ± $40%. Experiment setup of 2.5 Gbit/s heterodyne WDM transmission including differential phase shift keying (DPSK) and non-return-to-zero (NRZ) channels is established to investigate the scheme.     

Crosstalk in a two-channel coherent fibre-optic ASK system using anoptical amplifier and non-negligible linewidth lasers

Presents measurements of crosstalk penalties in a two-channel ASK system using 1.55 μm DFB lasers and a semiconductor laser amplifier. The amplifier was operated well below gain saturation. No additional receiver sensitivity penalty due to the amplifier was observed for single channel operation. However, the additional crosstalk in the amplifier required at 10% increase of the channel spacing compared to the spacing in the nonamplifier system