超宽带信号的产生及光纤传输的研究

提出了一种新的超宽带(UWB)脉冲产生的方法,并对其产生的数学原理进行了分析和实验验证。经过高斯信号调制的偏振控制器(PC)可以产生两个相位互补的相位调制信号,先通过PC调节两个正交的相位调制信号的静态相移,再经过偏振分束器(DBS)检偏后可以得到两路相位互补的高斯信号或二阶高斯信号,最后将这两路信号延时然后再经过偏振合路器(PBC)就可以分别得到一阶或三阶高斯信号。由于这3种脉冲的产生方式不同,频带宽度不同,在光纤中传输时对色散的容忍度也不一样,因此仿真分析了色散对这3种UWB信号传输特性的影响,得出了三阶高斯信号最适合UWB传输。     

Photonic Microwave Bandpass Filter With Negative Coefficients Using a Polarization Modulator

A novel photonic microwave bandpass filter with negative coefficients implemented using a polarization modulator (PolM) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. In the proposed filter, a lightwave from a tunable laser source (TLS) is sent to a PolM, with the incident lightwave adjusted to have its polarization direction aligned at an angle of plusmn45deg to the principal axes of the PolM. A microwave signal is applied to the PolM through its RF port. Thanks to the polarization modulation in the PolM, two complementary microwave signals with identical amplitudes carried by two optical carriers with orthogonal polarizations are generated. The two complementary optical microwave signals are then sent to an optical delay line consisting of one section or two sections of polarization-maintaining fiber (PMF), with the polarization directions aligned with the fast and slow axes of the PMF. A photonic microwave bandpass filter with two or four taps is obtained     

多种调制格式微波信号的光学产生方案

提出了一种基于偏振调制器（PolM）和Sagnac环级联的多调制格式微波信号的光学产生方案。理论分析了PolM在基带编码信号的驱动下产生偏振键控（PolSK）信号的基本原理,Sagnac环中嵌有两个马赫增德尔调制器（MZM）,分别对顺时针和逆时针传输的PolSK信号进行独立调制。通过合理调整两个MZM的驱动信号,实现了幅移键控（ASK）、频移键控（FSK）和相移键控（PSK）微波信号的产生。在仿真实验中,产生了比特率为2 Gbit/s的40 GHz ASK信号、20/40 GHz FSK信号和20 GHz PSK信号,同时验证了比特率和载波频率的宽带可调谐性。Sagnac环结构提升了系统的稳定性,并且针对每种调制格式的微波信号,在不改变链路结构的情况下其比特率和载波频率都可以通过控制基带编码信号和MZM的射频驱动来进行独立且灵活的调谐。     

基于偏振调制的最优接收灵敏度的ROF链路研究

提出了一个基于偏振调制的最佳接收灵敏度ROF链路系统。其根本原理在于实现具有最佳光载波边带比(OCSR)的光单边带调制技术,为此,利用偏振调制和滤波技术,线偏光首先经由一个特定偏振角进入偏振调制器,然后一个固定起偏角的起偏器被用来合并偏振信息,最后利用一个光滤波器实现光双边带调制到光单边带调制的转换。研究发现所获得的OCSR只与两个偏振角(和)有关,通过仔细调节上述指标,可以将OCSR调谐至最佳值0 dB。利用仿真验证了上述结论,仿真发现通过将OCSR调谐至最佳值将大大提高ROF链路的接收灵敏度。     

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。     

基于单个偏振调制器和光交错滤波器的八倍频微波信号产生研究

提出并实验验证了一种采用单个偏振调制器(PolM)的八倍频微波信号光学产生方法。PolM在大信号调制下产生多个高阶光边带,通过调节偏振控制器(PC)和检偏器,仅获得偶数阶光边带;合理调节其调制指数(射频信号功率),使得二阶边带被完全抑制,四阶边带功率明显高于六阶及其它高阶边带。采用光交错滤波器进一步抑制光载波及六阶边带,仅保留四阶边带,经光电探测器(PD)拍频获得八倍频微波信号。仿真方案选用25GHz和50GHz信道间隔的光交错滤波器,充分利用光交错滤波器的周期滤波特性,在4个频段范围内获得了连续可调的八倍频微波信号。实验结果和理论分析有效验证了所提出方案的可行性。     

Interrogation of an integrated optic modulator over a low-birefringence fiber using polarization tracking

The remote operations of an integrated optic Mach-Zehnder modulator via a low-birefringence fiber link using an input polarization control scheme is demonstrated. The polarization tracking scheme actively maintains the state of polarization arriving at the modulator in the state required for optimum operation of the device. As the feedback signal is determined by the overall optical throughput of the modulator, no modulation is itself required for the modulator to be set for optimum performance.<>     

Multitap Photonic Microwave Filters With Arbitrary Positive and Negative Coefficients Using a Polarization Modulator and an Optical Polarizer

A novel multitap photonic microwave filter with arbitrary positive and negative coefficients implemented using an electrooptic polarization modulator (PolM) and an optical polarizer is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. In the proposed filter, the optical polarizer is connected at the output of the PolM with its transmission axis aligned at an angle of 45 to one principal axis of the PolM. By adjusting the polarization direction of the input lightwave to be 45 or 135 to one principal axis of the PolM, an inverted or noninverted intensity-modulated optical microwave signal is obtained at the output of the optical polarizer, which leads to the generation of a negative or positive coefficient. A time delay difference between adjacent taps is generated by using a wavelength-dependent delay line. A five-tap photonic microwave filter with arbitrary positive and negative coefficients is demonstrated. The reconfigurability of the filter is also investigated.     

基于偏振调制器的可变超宽带脉冲产生

In order to generate optical Ultra- Wideband (UWB) pulse train with a switchable shape, a novel method based on a Polarization Modulator (PolM), a Polarization Controller (PC) and a delay line, is proposed and exp-erimentally demonstrated. Experimental resu-lts show that when a Gaussian pulse is applied to the PolM, under different phase shifts introduced by the PC, a gauss or gauss doublet pulse will be generated at the output of the Polarization Beam Splitter (PBS). If the two- path signals after PBS are properly de-layed, Gaussian monocycles or third-order gauss pulses will be generated at the output of the Polarization Beam Combiner (PBC).     

Balanced pulses in two outputs of quantum photonic chip

Silica planar lightwave circuit (PLC) devices can offer great potential for quantum key distribution (QKD) with benefits of low-loss, low-cost, large-scale integration, miniaturization, stability and mass production. A complementary encoding-decoding system for QKD based on silica PLC technology was demonstrated, achieving two channels that have balanced outputs simultaneously. This system is consisted of two chips, and each chip is consisted of a variable optical splitter (VOS), an asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer (AMZI) with a thermo-optic phase modulator (TOPM), a delay line (DL), and a directional coupler (DC). The measured delay times of pulse-pairs for two chips are 396 ps and 398 ps, respectively, and the system has shown relatively high interference visibility (IV) of 93.5% and 91.3% for two channels, respectively.     

基于光注入半导体激光器的超宽带信号产生

提出一种基于光脉冲注入条件下半导体激光器腔 内交叉增益调制(XGM)效应的超宽带(UWB)信号产生方案,通过一个增益开关激光器(ML)、 一个半导体激光器(SL)和一个光带通滤波器(OBPF),在平衡探 测器(BPD)端口直接检测输出重复频率为2.5GHz的UWB一阶微分(Mo nocycle)和二阶微分(Doublet)信号, 而且通过引入马赫-曾德尔调制器(MZM),还可对产生的UWB信号实现开关键控(OOK)。 对所提系统 进行了全面的系统仿真分析,并进行了实验验证,实现了上述各种条件的UWB信号产生,并 实现了UWB信 号的40km光纤传输实验。实验结果表明:该方案获得的UWB信号的频 谱与美国联邦通信委员会(FCC)定制的EIRP标准吻合,同时经过调制的 UWB信号的波形经40km光纤传输之后基本保持不变。为了证明本文方 法产生的UWB信号的重复变化特点,还产生了频率为3.75GHz的UWB信 号。     

Optical Frequency Conversion for Millimeter-Wave Ultra-Wideband-Over-Fiber Systems

This letter investigates all-optical frequency conversion of ultra-wideband (UWB) signals for UWB-over-fiber up-link and down-link systems. An electrooptical Mach-Zehnder modulator is used in nonlinear regime to realize frequency up and down conversion of UWB rectangular pulse and monocycle. All-optical frequency up-conversion of rectangular pulse at 18 GHz generates undesired local oscillator centered in the up-converted UWB spectrum, whereas up-conversion of monocycle waveform exhibits a power spectrum density optimally fitting the UWB emission mask. Up and down conversions of UWB monocycle, using the same UWB-over-fiber system, have shown low distortion induced by the optical mixing process on the UWB monocycle.     

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     

Synthesis of photonic microwave filters based on external opticalmodulators and wide-band chirped fiber gratings

The synthesis of photonic microwave filters employing optical sources with modulation side-bands, as multimode optical sources, and chirped fiber gratings is addressed. A single wavelength laser externally modulated using electrooptical Mach-Zehnder modulators and electroabsorption modulators have been proved as optical sources with modulation sidebands. Microwave filter features such as wide range tunability, compactness, readily reconfigurable frequency responses and flexibility have been achieved and demonstrated for the proposed structure. Experimental results using both a dual-electrode Mach-Zehnder electrooptical modulator and an electroabsorption modulator as optical sources with modulation sidebands are provided to demonstrate the feasibility of this technique     

Optimizing the bias and modulation voltages of MQW Mach-Zehndermodulators for 10 Gb/s transmission on nondispersion shifted fiber

The chirp and optical extinction ratio of a multiple quantum-well (MQW) Mach-Zehnder modulator depend on the device design and on the voltage waveforms applied to the arm electrodes. For 10 Gb/s transmission over nondispersion shifted fiber, joint optimization of the bias and modulation voltages is considered for a conventional modulator and a π-phase-shift modulator. Measured attenuation and phase constants for an optical signal propagating in the modulator waveguide are used to accurately model the Mach-Zehnder modulators. The influence of asymmetric Y-branch waveguides in the modulators is examined taking into consideration group velocity dispersion and self-phase modulation arising from the Kerr nonlinearity. When the modulators are operated with maximum optical extinction ratio, the dispersion limited transmission distance depends on the device design (phase-shift and Y-branch splitting ratio) and modulation format (dual drive or single drive). Optimization of the bias and modulation voltages reduces this dependence significantly, while also increasing the dispersion limited transmission distance     

A novel polymer-on-silicon Mach-Zehnder interferometer optical filter and the performance analysis based on spectrum-periodized theory

The analysis on the traditional asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer (AMZI) optical filter based on two 3 dB directional couplers (DCs) shows that by adding an additional nonlinear phase generated by phase-generating coupler (PGC) to the original phase difference of the AMZI, its non-periodic frequency response can be modified, and a strictly periodic spectrum can be obtained. A novel structure of the AMZI filter using two PGCs before and after the AMZI region is proposed. With the needed free spectrum range (FSR) of 20 nm, the design and optimization of the device are performed using polymer SU-8 as the core and PMMA-GMA as the buffer. Though the insertion loss (IL) gets larger than that of the traditional AMZI filter, the FSR is nearly uniform as the expected period of 20 nm.     

基于LiNbO3M-Z调制器的UWB信号PAM调制技术研究

提出一种基于LiNbO3Mach-Zehnde调制器(MZM)实现超宽带(UWB)脉冲幅度调制(PAM)的方案,只利用一个LiNbO3-MZM,实现幅度调制,结构简单,易于实现。利用OptiSys-tem7.0软件对方案进行了仿真,研究了调制信号的传输特性,并分析了光源功率、光源波长、脉冲宽度、调制速率、延迟时间以及传输距离对调制信号的影响。     

Effect of modulator chirp and sinusoidal group delay ripple on the performance of systems using dispersion compensating gratings

The implications that the nonideal characteristics of a dispersion compensating grating have on system performance are determined, for the most part, by the group delay ripple (GDR) of the grating response over the modulated signal bandwidth. Since the GDR typically exhibits an irregular variation with wavelength that has periodic features, it is convenient to use a sinusoidal variation to assess the implications on system performance. The portion of the grating bandwidth occupied by the modulated optical signal is determined by the carrier signal wavelength, bit rate, modulation format, and modulator chirp. The implications of modulator chirp on the performance of 10-Gb/s dispersion compensated systems are considered. Using a LiNbO/sub 3/ Mach-Zehnder modulator, an electroabsorption modulator, and a multiple quantum-well Mach-Zehnder modulator with distinct chirp properties, the results demonstrate that to accurately assess the implications of GDR, the properties of the modulator chirp must be considered. In particular, results for chirp-free optical signals underestimate the implications of the GDR on system performance.     

半导体光放大器的偏振调制特性研究

首先理论分析了半导体光放大器的非线性偏振调制（PolM）效应,导出了稳态条件下SOA的偏振转换矩阵。通过数值仿真,描述了包括非线性自偏振调制（SPolM）、互偏振调制（XPolM）导致的偏振态在庞加球上的变化形态。计算结果表明,SOA偏振调制效应表现为偏振旋转特性,偏振旋转的大小由入射光强和偏振态决定,旋转结果表现为输出光中的TM模分量增加,而TE模分量下降。文章同时讨论了SOA驱动电流变化对PolM效应的影响以及由其引起的电光偏振调制（IPolM）效应,并仿真得出了电流变化导致的输出光偏振态的变化轨迹。     

Design of mm-RoF system based on OFM technique with optimized OFDM modulation

We present the design of a novel bi-directional millimeter-wave radio-over-fiber (mm-RoF) system based on the millimeter-wave generation by optical frequency multiplication (OFM). A dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator is used to generate high-order optical side-modes which beat in the photo-detector, producing a 40-GHz carrier. Over 100-Mb/s orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation scheme is employed. The emphasis is on developing a mathematical model for optimizing optical modulation index to the Mach-Zehnder intensity modulator (IM) for OFDM signal with high peak-to-average power ratio which imposes a limitation on the system bit error rate (BER) performance due to the non-linearity of IM. The theoretical analysis on composite carrier to composite triple beat ratio is performed based on which extension to the system BER formula for quadrature phase shift keying/ multiple quadrature amplitude modulation (QPSK/MQAM) format is presented. The experimental proof is given in a 40-GHz RoF system at a bit rate of up to 280 Mb/s in 100-MHz bandwidth.