Development of linear traveling wave tubes for telecommunicationsapplications

Traveling wave tubes (TWTs) designed for telecommunications applications in multichannel power amplifiers (MCPAs) are required to have high linearity, low intermodulation distortion, high efficiency and high power outputs. The linearity of the TWT can be greatly improved by operation of the tube significantly backed off from saturation and by optimization of the design of the helix circuit. This results in two tone intermodulation products that are 25 to 40 dB below the carrier level, depending on the amount of back-off selected. However, operation backed off from saturation results in a greatly reduced efficiency of the TWT, which must be compensated for by optimal circuit and collector design. Several L-band and S-band Hughes TWTs have been developed for telecommunications applications and feature saturated power levels of up to 2 kW and average power of over 600 W with overall efficiencies of over 20% at 10 dB back-off and 40% at 6 dB back-off. These tubes provide high average power, high efficiency amplification with modest size and reduced cooling requirements compared to solid state amplifiers     

小波域抑制多音干扰的扩频接收机

利用小波包理论提出了一种快速、准确地识别并且抑制多音干扰的有效方法。该方法利用小波包理论将多音干扰的各条谱线逐个定位,然后通过功率谱分析的方法来识别多音干扰的存在区间,最后将被干扰污染的区间逐个切除并反向重构接收到的信号。实验证明该方法的误比特率性能在强干扰时要优于以前的FFT域切割法。     

Ka波段500W脉冲空间行波管研制

针对空间探测领域的应用需求,本文采用大功率返波振荡抑制技术以及过渡波导输能技术,设计出了一种Ka波段580 W脉冲空间行波管。经过实际的样管测试验证,功率≥580 W,饱和增益≥47 dB,实现了Ka波段500 W脉冲空间行波管主要技术参数。     

相位偏移和分束比对八倍频光毫米波产生及传输的影响分析

相位偏移和分束比极大地影响了产生光毫米波信号的边带抑制比以及光纤无线(ROF)系统的BER。针对串联两个马赫-曾德尔调制器产生八倍频光毫米波信号的方案,利用贝塞耳级数展开的方法,推导了相位偏移和分束比影响下,光毫米波信号的严格通用解析解,当分束比偏离0.001,相位偏移1°时,边带抑制比可达35.9 dB,能够忽略谐波分量的影响。仿真结果表明,在BER=10-10的条件下,当八倍频光毫米波信号背靠背传输时,分束比偏离0.001和相位偏移1°的功率代价仅为0.001dB,经20 km标准单模光纤传输后的功率代价为0.145 dB,系统性能良好。     

A periodic switching diversity technique for a digital FM land mobile radio

A simple and efficient diversity technique is proposed for use in a digital FM land mobile radio communication system. This technique receives two RF signals periodically by switching two antenna branches at a rate moderately higher than the bit rate. The improved bit error rate (BER) performance resulting from the use of diversity is shown to be the effect of transforming the probability density function of the signal energy per bit to noise power density ratio to a sharper distribution. Laboratory simulation test results show that in a Manchester-coded frequency-shift keying (FSK) system with a bit rate of 600 bit/s and a frequency deviation of ±5 kHz, the diversity gain at an average BER of 1 × 10^-3is about 10 dB for an optimum switching rate of about 2 kHz. This diversity improvement is also verified by the field test performed in a suburban area.     

短波FH/OFDM通信系统抗跟踪式干扰性能分析

对于短波多载波跳频通信系统,跟踪式干扰是一种有效的干扰模式。分析了正交频分复用( OFDM)部分子信道干扰与符号误码率的关系,通过仿真获得了最佳跟踪干扰的部分时间参数,结合OFDM频谱结构与干扰频谱关系,推导了高斯信道条件下部分频带干扰和多音干扰时系统误码率,分析了短波FH/OFDM通信系统抗跟踪式干扰的误码率性能,仿真结果表明：跟踪干扰时间窗口对误码率的影响与部分频带干扰因子和信干比有关;在部分频带干扰与部分时间干扰之间,存在等效的干扰效果区域;多音干扰因子越大,系统所受影响越大,跟踪干扰时间窗口对误码率的影响与多音干扰因子和信干比有关,针对OFDM符号的多音干扰影响要远大于部分频带干扰的影响;跳频与OFDM技术的结合、提高载波跳速、减小跟踪式干扰对OFDM符号的影响,也是消除多音干扰的重要手段。     

BER Performance of OFDM Signals in Presence of Nonlinear Distortion due to SSPA

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexed signals typically exhibit large dynamic ranges due to superposition of a large number of subcarrier signals. As a result, such signals are highly vulnerable to distortion caused by high power amplifier (HPA) nonlinearity, leading to degradation in bit error rate (BER). In turn, the HPA operating point should be backed off to compensate for such degradation at the expense of the HPA efficiency. In this paper, the considered amplifier chain is a solid state power amplifier of Rapp’s model. We develop the factors contributing to BER degradation in terms of the input back-off (IBO) level assuming quadrature phase shift keying modulation. Consequently, the BER performance for such an amplifier model is developed as a function in IBO. Then, we show how this developed performance can be used to determine the required HPA operating point to achieve a certain required BER. Accordingly, an improvement in the amplifier efficiency is achieved. All developed analytic expressions are compared against simulation measurements, which show that good agreement exists.     

Fiber four-wave mixing demultiplexing with inherent parametricamplification

We present an all-optical time-division demultiplexer with 22 dB conversion efficiency, using four-wave mixing (FWM) at 1550 nm in a single-mode dispersion-shifted fiber. Error-free demultiplexing of 20 Gb/s data to 10 Gb/s is obtained, with 1.4 dB power penalty at BER=10 ^-9. We also derive theoretical expressions for the conversion efficiency, the maximum bit rate that is possible to demur and the shape of the switching window. In particular we emphasize the importance of phase-matching in order to achieve a flat switching window. Furthermore the pump must remain undepleted to avoid a detrimental reduction of the extinction ratio due to instantaneous parametric gain saturation     

High-gain mode-adapted semiconductor optical amplifier with12.4-dBm saturation output power at 1550 nm

A mode-adapted semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) has been fabricated and packaged. At the gain peak, 1500 nm, the fiber to fiber gain was measured to be 32.5 dB. Statistics for eight packaged devices indicate that a fiber-to-fiber gain of 26.3 dB ± 1.3 dB and a saturation output power of 12.4 dBm ± 0.4 dBm are typical at a bias of 500 mA for λ = 1550 nm. Polarization sensitivity at 1550 nm was measured to be 1.1 dB ± 0.4 dB and the transverse electric (TE) polarization state noise figure (NF) was determined to be 7.0 dB ± 0.5 dB. The coupling loss was 1.3 dB ± 0.1 dB per facet. This SOA, with a 1.3-nm filter, was used as an optical preamplifier in a 10-Gb/s return-to-zero (RZ) system testbed with a pseudorandom binary sequence (PRBS) of 2³¹ -1. A 14.5-dB improvement in receiver sensitivity was observed at a bit error rate (BER) of 10^-11     

Performance analysis of burst-mode receivers with clock phase alignment and forward error correction for GPON

We experimentally demonstrate the performance analysis of burst-mode receivers (BMRx) in a 622 Mb/s 20-km gigabit-capable passive optical network (GPON) uplink. Our receiver features automatic phase acquisition using a clock phase aligner (CPA), and forward-error correction using (255, 239) Reed-Solomon (RS) codes. The BMRx provides instantaneous (0 preamble bit) phase acquisition and a packet-loss ratio (PLR) < 10^?6 for any phase step (±2π rads) between consecutive packets, while also supporting more than 600 consecutive identical digits (CIDs). The receiver also accomplishes a 3-dB coding gain at a bit-error rate (BER) of 10^?10. The CPA makes use of a phase picking algorithm and an oversampling clock-and-data recovery circuit operated at 2× the bit rate. The receiver meets the GPON physical media dependent layer specifications defined in the ITU-T recommendation G.984.2 standard. We investigate the PLR performance of the system and quantify it as a function of the phase step between consecutive packets, received signal power, CID immunity, and BER, while also assessing the tradeoffs in preamble length, power penalty, and pattern correlator error resistance. We also study the impact of mode-partition noise in the GPON uplink in terms of the effective PLR and BER coding gain performance of the system. In addition, we demonstrate how the CPA and the RS(255, 239) codes can be used in tandem for dynamic burst-error correction giving reliable BERs in bursty channels.     

Effect of system imperfections on BER performance of a CDMAreceiver with multipath diversity combining

The bit error rate performance of a high chip rate, indoor code division multiple access multipath combining receiver with imperfections in power control, estimation of channel parameters (path amplitude and phase), and estimation of spreading code phase is analyzed. Imperfection in power control is taken into account by modeling the received signal power as a log normally distributed random variable. The estimate errors are modeled as zero mean Gaussian random variables. It is shown that the performance of such a receiver degrades when the variance of power control imperfection is above 0 dB, mean square error in channel parameter estimation is above 0.01, or standard deviation of the code phase error is above 0.1     

Six-wavelength Raman fibre laser for C- and L-band Ramanamplification and dynamic gain flattening

A novel six-wavelength Raman fibre laser exhibiting a dynamic gain flattening capability in the C + L optical telecommunications band is demonstrated. The power distribution in the six lasing wavelengths is adjusted with voltage-controlled Bragg-grating output couplers. The fibre laser was used as a pump source for distributed Raman amplification in several transmission span lengths. For example, the multiwavelength laser provides an on/off gain of 19 dB over a 100 km span of True-Wave RS optical fibre. The measured gain flatness is 1.7 dB peak-peak and the effective noise figure ranges from 1.6 to -5.2 dB in the 1530 to 1600 nm bandwidth     

A 500-W coupled-cavity TWT for Ka-band communication

Worldwide demand for high-power amplifiers for digital satellite communication at Ka-band frequencies between 27 and 31 GHz is steadily increasing (2003). Communication and Power Industries (CPI) has developed a 500-W periodic permanent magnet focused coupled-cavity traveling wave tube (TWT) for conduction-cooled amplifier systems, which is being introduced into the commercial satellite communication market. The TWT is capable of greater than 500-MHz instantaneous bandwidth and is cathode voltage tunable from 28.3 to 30 GHz. The TWT may be operated saturated at the 500-W output power level or backed off from saturation in the linear mode. CPI's Satcom Division has integrated the TWT into a conduction-cooled transmitter box suitable for antenna hub-mount applications. The amplifier uses predistortion networks to provide a high degree of linear response when operated in output power back-off mode.     

HAP-GEO-HAP全光中继放大链路模型及其误码性能

针对几何传播损耗和指向误差联合效应对空间激光链路性能的影响,研究了HAP-GEO-HAP全光中继放大链路通信模型的误码性能。建立了基于GEO卫星全光中继放大转发的高空平台激光链路通信模型,在考虑背景光辐射与放大器引入的自发辐射等因素的条件下,研究了信道衰减系数的统计特性和各类噪声的强度,获得链路模型的Q因子,推导出误码率表达式。仿真分析了在不同发射功率、抖动标准差和波束宽度等参数条件下,链路误码率与比特速率的关系。研究结果表明:当比特速率较低时,增大发射功率、降低抖动标准差或减小波束宽度,对链路误码率性能的改善程度较为明显;当比特速率大于4 Gbps时,上述措施对链路误码性能的改善程度较为缓慢。     

Silicon IMPATT cascaded amplifier: 6 W (c.w.) at 9.6 GHz

A compact silicon IMPATT 4-stage coaxial amplifier has given 6.3 W (c.w.) with a power gain of 28 dB and an instantaneous bandwidth (?1 dB) of 200 MHz centred at 9.6 GHz. A gain ripple of less than 0.2 dB and phase deviation from linearity of ±3° across a 30 MHz bandwidth slot was obtained at the full rated output power. The overall efficiency was 4.5%. Commercial devices and circulators were used throughout the unit and the power in the final stage was obtained by combining the available powers from four separate devices. Particular attention was paid to the circuits to reduce the onset of spurious oscillations under large-signal conditions.     

Micro- and macrodiversity MDPSK on shadowed frequency-selectivechannels

The performance of M-ary differential phase shift keying (MDPSK) on frequency-selective slow Rayleigh fading, lognormal shadowed channels with diversity combining is analyzed for mobile and portable applications. The use of L-branch equal gain postdetection microdiversity combining to mitigate the effects of fading and P-port macrodiversity to alleviate the effects of shadowing are investigated. Four performance criteria are considered for a frequency-selective multipath fading, intersymbol interference channel. These are, the short term bit error rate (BER), the irreducible BER, the complementary distribution over the lognormal shadowing of the average BER, and the probability that the instantaneous BER exceeds a threshold value, averaged over a spatial environment. Closed-form expressions for the four performance criteria are obtained. The BER and outage performance results show that diversity combining is an effective method for improving the system performance (and hence system reliability), when the normalized delay spread is not large. It is also seen that, in most cases, 4DPSK gives the best performance followed by 8DPSK and 2DPSK, respectively, for a given information throughput     

基于MBER的联合预编码与空时编码GFDM功率分配策略

为改善频率选择性衰落信道上广义频分复用（GFDM）系统的误比特率和频带利用率性能,基于最小误比特率（MBER）准则,提出一种联合预编码和空时编码（STC）的 GFDM 系统及其相应的功率分配策略,可将该功率分配策略的优化目标由MBER转化为最小化其噪声增强因子,并推导了联合预编码与空时编码 GFDM 系统的功率分配、误比特率和频带利用率性能解析表达式。数值计算和仿真结果表明,与预编码STC-GFDM系统相比,基于MBER准则的预编码STC-GFDM系统的误码性能在误比特率为10^-3时改善约0.4 dB,频带利用率性能在信噪比为12 dB时提高约0.24 bit/(s·Hz)。     

Theoretical analysis of phase diversity optical homodyne receiverwith FSK demodulation

A detailed analysis of optical coherent phase diversity single-filtered and dual-filtered frequency-shift keying (FSK) receivers corrupted by shot and phase noise is presented. With delay and cross-product detection, the effect of various parameters, including bandwidths of filters, delay time, frequency deviation and noises, are investigated. The tolerance of phase noise is quite large, when small time delay in the demodulator and appropriately large frequency deviation is selected. It is also shown that there exists an optimal bandwidth for the first filter in the dual-filtered FSK receiver. For a total linewidth equal to half of the bit rate, the power penalty incurred (at BER=10^-9) is 1.92 dB when the modulation index is 4, provided that an optimal filter bandwidth and a frequency deviation-delay product of 0.25 are used     

GMSK frequency detection using decision feedback equalisation

Frequency detection of GMSK signals using one-bit decision feedback equalisation (DFE) in conjunction with offset decision instant is presented. Experiments on a 16kbit/GMSK signal reception with a premodulation filter bandwidth-bit duration product (Bb T) of 0-25 (typical for mobile radio applications) show that, compared to MSK signal reception, a bit error rate (BER) of 10-2 is obtained with a loss of about 4dB in the signal energy per bit/noise power density ratio (Eb/N0) in the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels. In the cochannel interference limited channels, a BER of 10-2 is obtainable at a signal/interference power ratio (SIR) about 5-5 dB larger than in the case of MSK signal reception.     

Estimated performance of 2.488 Gb/s CPFSK optical non-repeateredtransmission system employing high-output power EDFA boosters

The configuration of a practical nonrepeatered coherent optical transmission system and its performance are reported. The practicability of combining continuous-phase frequency-shift keying (CPFSK) with erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) boosters is verified by laboratory and field experiments. A system gain of 60.8 dB is achieved at a BER at 10^-11; the EDFA's optical output power is +18 dBm and the receiver sensitivity is -42.8 dBm. The stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) effect is examined to estimate the dependence of error rate characteristics on the bit sequence length. No power penalty is observed for a pseudorandom bit sequence (PRBS) of more than 2⁵-1 or STM-16 patterns containing a 30-byte block of consecutive identical digits. The power penalty of 1.3 dB caused by the 310-km non-dispersion-shifted transmission fiber is successfully compensated by installing a chromatic dispersion compensator in each orthogonal polarization branch. During a four month field experiment, error-free operation was observed over a 30 day period, and the long-term error rate is under 6×10^-16