高速大动态范围偏振消光比测试技术

在保偏传感系统、高速电光调制系统和无源光器件的研制、生产和维护中,对偏振消光比的指标要求逐渐提高,为此提出了一种高速大动态范围偏振消光比测试技术。首先阐述了旋转检偏法的基本原理,然后介绍了本技术中使用的对数放大器功率探测方法,最后将普通型偏振消光比测试仪和改进型偏振消光比测试仪的测试结果进行了对比。结果表明,改进后的偏振消光比测试技术提高了消光比测试的速度和动态范围,解决了当前测试技术存在的问题,因此满足市场中的相关需求。     

Impact of Mach-Zehnder Modulator Chirp on Radio over Fiber Links

The impact of Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) chirp on single sideband (SSB) and carrier suppressed double sideband (CS-DSB) modulation radio over fiber (RoF) links are investigated and simulated. Finite extinction ratio and drive signal unbalanced ratio of non-ideal MZM are considered, power variation of target microwave signal and harmonic suppression are calculated and evaluated. Our results suggest that unbalanced ratio could be optimized to minimized the power variation owing to the finite extinction ratio and improve the harmonic suppress ratio in the two kinds of RoF links. However, harmonic suppression ratio declined rapidly with the decrease of extinction ratio in the CS-DSB RoF link. For a non-ideal modulator with low extinction ratio, high quality microwave signal could be obtained in the SSB RoF link while an additional filter is required to suppress the unwanted harmonic components in the CS-DSB RoF link.     

半导体光放大器的偏振光开关性能改进

半导体光放大器(SOA)非线性偏振旋转效应的光开关具有开关速度快、易集成等优点,其开关操作可以通过改变注入SOA中的电流而获得。这种偏振光开关的性能主要受注入光功率与控制电流的大小范围来决定。基于SOA中的偏振主态的概念,分析了非线性偏振旋转效应与控制电流的关系,并对不同功率的注入光进行了偏振旋转实验,分别实现了偏振光开关的操作。实验结果表明:随着注入光功率的增加可以提高光开关的分光比,有效改进光开关的性能。当注入光为5 dBm时,光开关的分光比与消光比均可达到30 dB。     

Digitizing radio-over-fiber transceiver based on optical tunable encoder and optical codewords

Radio over fiber (RoF) is a very attractive and promising technology for wireless access networks, because of several advantages such as providing huge bandwidth, inherent immunity to electromagnetic interference and reduced power consumption. The analog RoF networks cannot be used for the transmission of radio signals over long lengths of fiber due to the distortions induced by dispersion and nonlinearity of the optical link. The digitized RoF communication presents an interesting alternative to circumvent the limitations of ARoF networks. In this paper, we propose an all-optical DRoF (Digital RoF) scheme based on the optical encoding technique and optical codewords instead of modulation techniques. The proposed scheme is composed of an all-optical sampler, an all-optical thresholder and an all-optical encoder. The proposed all-optical DRoF design is simulated by implementing its three main components using the simulation platform, Optisystem. We have also studied the capacity of the proposed encoding architecture in terms of the maximum number of chips that can be supported. Furthermore, ARoF, DRoF and the proposed all-optical DRoF systems are compared based on the minimum bit error rate, the maximum quality factor, and the complexity and implementation cost.     

Linearization of DFB laser diode by external light-injected cross-gain modulation for radio-over-fiber link

A novel linearization technique of distributed-feedback laser diode in analog optical transmitter for radio-over-fiber (RoF) link was proposed. The proposed scheme was based on a light-injection technique using cross-gain modulation effect. According to the proposed idea, a linearized RoF transmitter module was implemented and evaluated. The enhanced performance of carrier-to-noise ratio and spurious-free dynamic range were experimentally demonstrated in a wide range of radio-frequency (RF) applications. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme can be applicable for broadband RF optical transmission applications.     

基于FBG和偏振复用的8倍频全双工RoF系统

为简化光载无线通信系统(RoF)中心站(CS)和基站(BS)结构,提出了一种基于光纤布拉格光栅(FBG)和偏振复用技术的8倍频全双工RoF系统方案。通过设置马赫-曾德尔调制器(MZM)偏置电压和射频驱动信号幅度保留部分主载波与偶数阶边带,再利用FBG将主载波与偶数阶边带分离。结合偏振复用技术将主载波和偶数阶边带复用到X和Y两个偏振方向上,其中抑制载波偶数阶边带用于下行链路数据传输,而主载波在BS站作为上行链路载波使用。理论推导了实现机理并进行了实验验证,结果表明当使用10 GHz射频驱动时可实现稳定的80 GHz光载毫米波信号,传输20 km后下行链路和上行链路功率代价仅为0.1和0.07 dB,表现出了较好的系统性能。     

基于半导体-金属相变材料的宽谱、偏振选择的红外光开关

提出了一种基于半导体-金属相变材料和掩埋金属光栅结构的新型红外光开关。该结果由电磁场有限元方法计算得到。设计了在近红外波段表现出宽谱的、偏振选择的全光开关效应。掩埋金属光栅极大的提高了二氧化钒薄膜作为光开关的消光比,使得该结构在亚波长尺寸获得了高的消光比。结构的光学响应随入射角变化并不敏感。结构的透过、吸收特性可由结构参数进行调节。此设计在红外光通信、光计算以及军事探测、无损检测等领域具有潜在的应用。     

基于两次衰减全反射结构的激光偏振控制器

为了实现激光偏振态的控制和提高两偏振态消光比,用由各向异性材料加工而成的耦合棱镜并采用两次衰减全反射方法,使具有相同入射角的TE和TM偏振态的共振激发条件不同,即当TE偏振态满足共振激发条件能量耦合进波导时,TM偏振态却不满足共振激发条件而被反射来实现其在空间上的分离.同时将电光系数较大、光学性能和热稳定性好的聚合物材料作为波导层,利用其电光效应来改变共振条件来实现输出光束偏振态的调谐.结果表明,反射型结构插入损耗小于0.2dB,器件的消光比高达27dB,驱动电压为19V.该方案预计在光信息存储、光路由、光开光以及图像处理等光学系统里有着极其广泛的应用.     

高消光比测试系统衰减器的研究

为了提高消光比测试系统的测试精确度,利用偏振干涉原理研究设计了一种用于此系统的衰减器,并对它的工作机理进行了详细分析。此衰减器主要包括3个偏光棱镜,1个λ/4波片(632.8nm),两个步近电机。它可以对光强度进行连续调节,其调节范围在0~60dB之间,插入损耗小于1.5dB,消除了以往更换固定衰减量的衰减器带来的误差。此光衰减器用在高消光比测试系统中可以得到优于10-7量级的消光比,它不仅可以用于高消光比测试系统,同样可用于其它光学测试系统。当用消色差波片代替λ/4波片时,它能对多种波长的光进行衰减,扩大测试系统对光谱区的使用范围。     

Wireless and Optical-Integrated Access Network With Peer-To-Peer Connection Capability

We show a bidirectional optical access network with dynamic channel allocation capability of decimeter-wave band optical radio-over-fiber (RoF) and baseband signals. The network can be configured enabling peer-to-peer connectivity, and is based on a simple access point (AP) unit. The proposed RoF architecture is highly scalable, both in terms of channels and APs.     

金属修饰的微结构光纤偏振分束器

提出了一种金属修饰的微结构光纤偏振分束器,并且利用全矢量有限元法仿真分析了该偏振分束器的长度与其结构参数的关系,进而得出了该偏振分束器长度随孔间距、占空比变化的一般规律。研究结果表明:当其他结构参数一定时,该偏振分束器长度会随着孔间距的减小而减短;占空比减小,偏振分束器长度也会随之减短。最终综合考虑其性能与金属材料带来的损耗的影响,设计出一种结构简单的微结构光纤偏振分束器。该偏振分束器长度为3.523 mm,在其工作波长1。55 m处消光比高达74.9 dB,消光比高于20 dB的波长范围为1.53~1.57 m之间的40 nm范围,覆盖了整个光通信的C波段范围。并且该偏振分束器有着较好的冗余特性,在偏振分束器长度存在5%的误差时,仍能保持较好的性能。     

A Novel Direct Detection Microwave Photonic Vector Modulation Scheme for Radio-Over-Fiber System

This letter demonstrates the feasibility of a novel direct detection microwave photonic vector modulation scheme for the radio-over-fiber (RoF) system. Unlike the traditional double-sideband with optical carrier suppression modulation scheme, which can carry only the on-off keying data format, the proposed scheme encodes the electrical vector signal on either the upper sideband (USB) or the lower sideband (LSB) only and a pure optical subcarrier on the other sideband. Therefore, phase and amplitude information will be preserved after direct detection. A frequency doubling scheme is employed to reduce the cost of RoF systems. Additionally, the relative intensity between USB and LSB can be easily tuned by adjusting the individual power of electrical driving signals to optimize the performance of the optical radio-frequency signals. A proof-of-concept experiment is conducted by using a 1.25 Gb/s BPSK signal at a carrier frequency of 20 GHz. After transmission over 50-km single-mode fiber, the receiver sensitivity penalty is less than 0.5 dB.     

铌酸锂光波导器件保偏尾纤对轴工艺研究

基于采用退火质子交换工艺制备的铌酸锂光波导器件的保偏尾纤具有高偏振消光比这一特性,提出了一种通过偏振消光比测试仪测定器件保偏尾纤的偏振轴并实现与保偏连接头定位键高精度对准的方法.工艺实验证明,采用该方法制作的保偏尾纤连接头偏振轴向对准精度优于0.8°,显著优于显微成像定轴方法制作的保偏尾纤接头.     

一种载边比可调单边带全双工光载无线系统

理论分析了一种基于双平行马赫曾德尔调制器(MZM)的2 倍频光单边带调制方案,仿真研究了基于 该方案的载波重用全双工光载无线(RoF)通信系统性能。合理设置射频驱动信号相移及双平行MZM 主调制器偏置 电压产生单边带信号,再调整调制指数以实现光载边比ROCS 的连续可调谐。讨论了射频信号相移、主调制器偏置电 压、双平行MZM 消光比RE 和调制指数对ROCS 的影响,理论分析与仿真结果较为一致。结果表明经20 km 光纤传输 后,在误码率BER 为10-9 时0 dB 和10. 33 dB 载边比系统的功率代价分别为2.5 dB 和3.4 dB,在背靠背(BtB)传输 中当载边比从10. 33 dB 降低至0 dB 后,接收机灵敏度提高了2.6 dB。     

New progress of mm-wave radio-over-fiber system based on OFM

This paper presents an overview on new progresses-of millimeter wave (mm-wave) radio-over-fiber (RoF) system based on mm-wave generation by optical frequency multiplication (OFM), including gen-eration of high-order optical side modes by optical modulation using dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator (DD-MZM) and enhancement of high-order optical side mode induced by selective amplification due to stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS). The paper describes OFM by using DD-MZM in principle and verifies it in an experimental bidirectional 40GHz RoF system. SBS amplification enhances the generated information-bearing mm-wave in downlink and also helps in producing a pure reference mm-wave for radio frequency-intermediate frequency (RF-IF) down-conversion in uplink. These efforts pushed the OFM technology of mm-RoF systems to achieve more and more feasibility and cost-effectiveness.     

Reconfigurable 2.5-Gb/s Baseband and 60-GHz (155-Mb/s) Millimeter-Waveband Radio-Over-Fiber (Interleaving) Access Network

In this paper, we propose a dynamic reconfigurable wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) millimeter-waveband radio-over-fiber (RoF) and baseband access network. We also demonstrate dynamic channel allocation capability of millimeter-waveband optical RoF and baseband signals in WDM access network using a supercontinuum (SC) light source, arrayed-waveguide gratings, and a reconfigurable optical crossconnect switch. The dynamic reconfigurable RoF and baseband network architecture is presented and its features are described. Two 155-Mb/s RoF channels and two 2.5-Gb/s baseband channels are effectively generated, transmitted through 25 km of fiber, switched, and then transmitted again through 2 km of fiber and detected with error-free operation (bit error rate $≪ 10^{-9}$). The proposed architecture allows the RoF and baseband to coexist and is highly scalable, both in terms of channel counts and access point (AP) counts.      

基于光学零差偏振探测和锁相的合束激光偏振控制

激光偏振合束是提升窄线宽光纤激光亮度的重要技术,能实现多路激光的共孔径合束输出,同时维持较高的光束质量和线偏振态。文中探索和研究了基于线性锁相技术的合束激光偏振控制系统,详细分析和建立了光零差偏振检测物理模型和线性锁相控制环路的数学模型。利用高精度的光零差技术对合束激光的偏振相位进行检测,并通过快速实时反馈进行激光锁相,获得了输出功率为279 mW的线偏振态激光。锁相控制后,合束激光的偏振消光比达到19.3 dB,控制带宽高达39.6 kHz,剩余相位噪声为710-4 rad/Hz（1 Hz）和310-4 rad/Hz。当提高激光输出总功率达1 W时,偏振消光比维持在~15 dB,其限制因素在于光功率波动引入的相位噪声和光斑空间模式不匹配。     

基于级联外调制器的六倍频微波信号的光学生成技术研究

提出并实验验证了一种基于级联偏振调制器(Po lM)和双平行马赫-曾德尔调制器(DPMZM)的六 倍频微波信号的光学生成方法。PolM在射频(RF)信号调制下,会产生多个光边带,通过调 节偏振控制 器(PC)和检偏器仅获得奇数阶边带,然后通过DPMZM,其中一子MZM调制RF信号,工作在 最大 传输点(MATP),另一子MZM不调制RF信号,从而抑制掉一阶边带,保留三阶边带,经光 电探测器(PD)拍频获得六倍频微波信号。仿真结果表明,在不利用任何光、电滤波器的情况下,调 制器消光比为 理想状态(100dB)时,RF杂散抑制比(RFSSR) 为34dB。即使消光比为非理想状态(30dB)时,生成微波信号的RF SSR仍可以达到21dB。理论分析和实验结果均验证 了方案的可行性。     

基于两个平行马赫-增德尔调制器的光载无线传输系统

为提高光载无线(radio over fiber,RoF) 传输系统中的光波信号的利用率,本文提出了一种基于两个平行马赫-增德尔调制器 (Mach-Zehnder modulator,MZM) 的RoF传输系统。两个平行MZM经射频(radio frequency,RF) 信号调制后,产生5个光边带信号,分别是正负一阶光边带、正负二阶光边带和光载波。其中正负二阶光边带使用基带数据进行调制,经光电检测器(photodiode,PD) 拍频后产生已调数据的毫米波信号,再由天线发射出去。正二阶边带和光载波经PD拍频后产生未调制数据的毫米波,该毫米波用于接收端解调的本振信号(local oscillator,LO) 。负二阶边带信号用于上行链路的光载波。在本系统中,5个光边带信号都被充分利用,提高了光信号的利用效率。此外,还分析了该系统通过色散介质的传输特性,为RoF通信系统提供了一种实用化的解决方案。     

Inter-BSs virtual private network for privacy and security enhanced 60 GHz radio-over-fiber system

A novel inter-basestations (inter-BSs) based virtual private network (VPN) for the privacy and security enhanced 60 GHz radio-over-fiber (RoF) system using optical code-division multiplexing (OCDM) is proposed and demonstrated experimentally. By establishing inter-BSs VPN overlaying the network structure of a 60 GHz RoF system, the express and private paths for the communication of end-users under different BSs can be offered. In order to effectively establish the inter-BSs VPN, the OCDM encoding/decoding technology is employed in the RoF system. In each BS, a 58 GHz millimeter-wave (MMW) is used as the inter-BSs VPN channel, while a 60 GHz MMW is used as the common central station (CS)–BSs communication channel. The optical carriers used for the downlink, uplink and VPN link transmissions are all simultaneously generated in a lightwave-centralized CS, by utilizing four-wave mixing (FWM) effect in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). The obtained results properly verify the feasibility of our proposed configuration of the inter-BSs VPN in the 60 GHz RoF system.