Nec Corporation

Teac Corporation

Nisshin Flour Milling Co., Ltd.

Nec Corporaiton

Kiyoshi Fukuchi

Wakako Yasuda

Junichi Abe

Emmanuel Le Taillandier De Gabory

Manabu Arikawa

Satomi Shioiri

Daisaku Ogasahara

Toshiharu Ito

Hitoshi Takeshita

Yoshiaki Sakai

Fumio Nagase

Mitsumasa Kubo

Shigeru Nakamura

Takashi Ono

Hiroshi Tsuyuguchi

Yutaka Urino

Itaru Nishioka

Masahiro Sakauchi

Sadao Fujita

Yoshiyuki Otsuka

Masahiro Shigihara

Toshiharu Itou

Takashi Numata

Takeya Sato

Noboru Yanaihara

The disclosed coherent optical receiver includes a local light source; a 90-degree hybrid circuit; an optoelectronic converter; an analog-to-digital converter; a skew addition unit; and a FFT operation unit. The 90-degree hybrid circuit makes multiplexed signal light interfere with local light from the local light source, and outputs multiple optical signals separated into a plurality of signal components. The optoelectronic converter detects the optical signal and outputs a detected electrical signal. The analog-to-digital converter digitizes the detected electrical signal and outputs a detected digital signal. The skew addition unit adds to the detected digital signal an additional skew amount whose absolute value is equal to, whose sign is opposite to a skew amount of a difference in propagation delay in each lane connected to each output channel of the 90-degree hybrid circuit. The FFT operation unit performs a fast Fourier transform on the output from the skew addition unit.

Coherent optical receiver, device and method for detecting inter-lane skew in coherent optical receiver

An optical transmitting/receiving system using a timing extracting method that allows a feed forward type of optimized structure exhibits increased cost and increased power consumption, therefore, an optical transmitting/receiving system according to the present invention includes an optical transmitter apparatus including a light source, an optical modulator, and a pseudo RZ carver; and an optical receiver apparatus including a coherent receiver, an AD converter, a main signal processing unit, and a timing extracting unit; wherein the pseudo RZ carver forms a dip in an optical signal phase-modulated with a frequency f by the optical modulator by dropping the optical intensity at a symbol transition point to approximate zero per n-symbol interval; the AD converter outputs a sample obtained by AD converting an electrical signal which is detected and outputted by the coherent receiver; the timing extracting unit extracts a clock component of a frequency f/n from the sample and derives from the clock component a timing error signal which represents a deviation from optimum sampling timing; and the main signal processing unit adjusts a sampling timing on the basis of the timing error signal.

Optical transmitting/receiving system and timing extracting method in optical transmitting/receiving system

In a coherent optical receiver, sufficient demodulation becomes impossible and consequently receiving performance deteriorates if an interchannel skew arises, therefore, a coherent optical receiver according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes a local light source; a 90-degree hybrid circuit; an optoelectronic converter; an analog-to-digital converter; and a digital signal processing unit, wherein the 90-degree hybrid circuit makes multiplexed signal light interfere with local light from the local light source, and outputs a plurality of optical signals separated into a plurality of signal components; the optoelectronic converter detects the optical signals and outputs detected electrical signals; the analog-to-digital converter quantizes the detected electrical signals and outputs quantized signals; and the digital signal processing unit includes a skew compensation unit for compensating a difference in propagation delay between the plurality of signal components, and a demodulation unit for demodulating the quantized signals.

Coherent optical receiver, apparatus and method for detecting interchannel skew in coherent optical receiver

A phase excursion compensation circuit of a phase modulation signal demodulator detects occurrence of a slip of a received signal from a change in a phase compensation amount that is formed into the received signal by a phase excursion compensation unit, and corrects the phase compensation amount of the received signal after the slip is generated.

Phase compensation receiver

Since it is difficult to emit a stable and reliable modulated lightwave signal by means of IQ modulators used for QAM format, a method for controlling an optical transmitter according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes the steps of (a) keeping an optical amplitude of a continuous wave light output from the optical transmitter constant, (b) making operating point values in optical modulation converge to predetermined values during step (a), and (c) modulating the continuous wave light with multiple amplitudes and phase levels around the operating point values converged in step (b).

Optical transmitter and method for controlling the same

It becomes difficult to perform the optimum equalization signal processing in coherent receiving systems if a channel response in an optical fiber transmission line includes a factor without temporal centrosymmetry, therefore, an equalization signal processor according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes an equalization filter means configured to receive digital signals by coherent receiving systems; a coefficient control means configured to control coefficients defining characteristics of the equalization filter means; a significant coefficient holding means configured to hold significant coefficients of significant values among initial values of the coefficients; a significant coefficient positioning means configured to determine a significant coefficient position, a position of the significant coefficients in the initial values, so that equalization characteristics of the equalization filter means may be optimized; and a significant coefficient setting means configured to allocate the significant coefficients to the significant coefficient position.

Equalization signal processor, optical receiver including the same, and method for equalization signal processing

In a coherent optical receiver, sufficient demodulation becomes impossible and consequently receiving performance deteriorates if an inter-channel skew arises, therefore, a coherent optical receiver according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes a local light source, a 90&#xb0; hybrid circuit, an optoelectronic converter, an analog to digital converter, and a digital signal processing unit; wherein the 90&#xb0; hybrid circuit makes multiplexed signal light interfere with local light from the local light source, and outputs a plurality of optical signals separated into a plurality of signal components; the optoelectronic converter detects the optical signals and outputs detected electrical signals; the analog to digital converter quantizes the detected electrical signals and outputs quantized signals; the digital signal processing unit includes a skew compensation unit for compensating a difference in propagation delay between the plurality of signal components, and an FFT operation unit for performing a fast Fourier transform process on the quantized signals; and wherein the difference in propagation delay is calculated on the basis of a plurality of peak values with a central focus on one peak value in the results of performing the fast Fourier transform process.

Coherent optical receiver, apparatus and method for detecting inter-channel skew in coherent optical receiver

In order to appropriately demultiplex the polarization multiplexed BPSK signal without using a training sequence and decreasing the resistance to a frequency offset, an optical receiver includes a coherent optical detection unit receiving an optical signal in which BPSK modulated carrier waves are polarization-multiplexed, performing coherent detection by mixing the received optical signal with local light, and outputting first electrical signals corresponding to the carrier waves; a butterfly FIR filter receiving the first electrical signals and extracting second electrical signals corresponding to each of the carrier waves from the first electrical signals; and a coefficient control unit for calculating a sum of respective phases of the second electrical signals output from the butterfly FIR filter, adaptively controlling tap coefficients of the butterfly FIR filter so that the calculated phase sum may become equal to 0 or &#x3c0;, and outputting tap coefficients after being controlled to the butterfly FIR filter.

Optical receiver, polarization demultiplexer, and optical receiving method

Since it is difficult to fast, simply monitor impairments of received signals with higher receiver sensitivity, a monitoring method for an optical communication system according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes the steps of emitting lightwave signals to be modulated according to a data, forming dips at transitions between temporally consecutive groups of n symbols of the lightwave signals, wherein the dips are formed at each of (n&#x2212;1) first transitions of the group, no dip is formed at the n-th transition on the lightwave signals, receiving the lightwave signals, extracting frequency components characterized by the numerical value n from received lightwave signals, and monitoring the received lightwave signals by using the frequency components.

Optical communication system with monitor functions and monitoring method therefor

A method of monitoring chromatic dispersion when transmitting an optical signal includes: applying, to an optical signal in which the symbol rate is f, a dip in optical intensity for every n symbols by means of pseudo-RZ modulation where n is an integer equal to or greater than 2, and transmitting the optical signal to which dips have been applied to a transmission path; receiving the optical signal that is transmitted in by the transmission path and detecting the intensity of a frequency component of k*f/n from the received signal where k is an integer equal to or greater than 1; and based on the detected intensity, generating a monitor signal that represents the chromatic dispersion amount.

Method and apparatus for detecting chromatic dispersion, and method and apparatus for compensating chromatic dispersion

A method is provided for detecting the skew between parallel light signals generated from a serial data stream. The method can be used with polarization multiplexed signal, as well as with wavelength division multiplexed signals, spatial division multiplexed signals, phase modulated signals, or intensity modulated signals. The method can be used with direct detection schemes as well as with coherent detection schemes. The method is provided with: imprinting dips between a fixed number of transmitted symbols of the parallel signals; detecting an electrical signal related to the dips for each parallel signal; and comparing the electrical signals in delay.

Method of and system for detecting skew between parallel signals

In a coherent optical receiver, sufficient demodulation becomes impossible and consequently receiving performance deteriorates if an inter-channel skew arises, therefore, a method for detecting inter-channel skew in a coherent optical receiver according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes the steps of: outputting a plurality of optical signals separated into a plurality of signal components by making a test light from a test light source interfere with a local light from a local light source; detecting the optical signals and outputting detected electrical signals; quantizing the detected electrical signals and outputting quantized signals; performing a fast Fourier transform process on the quantized signals; and calculating a difference in propagation delay between the plurality of signal components on the basis of a plurality of peak values in the results of performing the fast Fourier transform process.

An optical communication system in which optical transmitterthat modulates an electric signal to an optical signal and transmits the optical signal and optical receiverthat receives the optical signal are connected via transmission path, wherein, when a change in the dispersion amount of chromatic dispersion caused by the optical signal passing through transmission pathis nearly eliminated, optical transmitterand optical receiverdecrease the absolute value of a receiver-side dispersion compensation amount while keeping the total value of a transmitter-side dispersion compensation amount for compensating for the dispersion amount by optical transmitterand the receiver-side dispersion compensation amount for compensating for the dispersion amount by optical receiversubstantially constant.

Optical communication system and optical communication method

A wavelength path communication node apparatus includes a wavelength path demultiplexer () which demultiplexes branched optical signals input to wavelength multiplexing ports into wavelength path signals, and outputs the wavelength path signals from wavelength demultiplexing ports corresponding to the respective wavelengths, a wavelength path multiplexer () which outputs wavelength path signals input to wavelength demultiplexing ports from wavelength multiplexing ports corresponding to the wavelengths of the wavelength path signals, a plurality of transponders () each of which converts a wavelength path signal input to a wavelength path transmission port into a client transmission signal to transmit the client transmission signal, and converts a received client reception signal into a wavelength path signal of a wavelength to output the wavelength path signal from a wavelength path reception port, a demultiplexing system optical matrix switch () which switches and connects the wavelength demultiplexing ports of the wavelength path demultiplexer and the wavelength path transmission ports of the transponders, and a multiplexing system optical matrix switch () which switches and connects the wavelength demultiplexing ports of the wavelength path multiplexer and the wavelength path reception ports of the transponders.

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Kiyoshi Fukuchi