In the field of space optical communication, coherent communication system has the advantages of high sensitivity, compatibility with a variety of modulation formats and strong anti-interference ability compared with intensity modulation direct detection (IM-DD) system. The typical disadvantage of coherent communication system is the complexity of the receiver, which requires carrier recovery. Space optical communication is also developing from point-to-point communication to optical communication network. In this paper, a fast phase locking method based on direct phase control is proposed. After the auxiliary frequency acquisition is completed, the time to recover the carrier is equal to the loop delay. The realization of this method depends on the direct control of the local oscillator carrier phase. Different from the traditional second-order loop method, this method does not need to consider the laser linewidth. This method can greatly save the time of carrier recovery, so it can be used for fast switching of optical network channels and can improve the utilization of optical networks.
This article mainly shows that coherent accumulation of multi-aperture receiver array based on frequency modulation continuous wave (FMCW) coherent lidar has an excellent performance for the weak signal detection of target which is far distance or moving with a high velocity. This method can improve the signal and noise ratio (SNR) and detection range accuracy by multi-aperture receiver array. In addition, the analysis done by simulation shows that phase fluctuation of atmospheric turbulence has a significant influence on the performance of coherent accumulation of multi-aperture receiver array. Stimulation result shows that while μx is equal to - σ2x , the amplitude fluctuation of signal could degrade the quality of coherent accumulation based on multi-aperture receiver array and its existence leads to the worse performance before non-amplitude fluctuation. Phase fluctuation of signal deteriorates the performance of coherent accumulation while its size is big or small.
In an optical phased array (OPA) free space laser communication system, one of the main issues is to control the phase of each beam to acquire fast and stable phase-locking for phase consistency, in which the number of the elements in the array is of vital importance. In this paper, we studied the method on improving the performance of phase-locking about speed and stability of optical phased array with large number of elements. The performance of OPA with different number of emitting elements was analyzed with the simplified stochastic parallel gradient descent (SPGD) algorithm for closed-loop phase-locking. And the algorithm showed a poor performance when the elements of the array were in large amounts. An optimal algorithm, the distributed SPGD (DSPGD) algorithm, was proposed to improve the performance of the array, which revealed fast speed and stability in phase-locking of a large number of emitting elements of optical phased array, suggesting the algorithm is effective.
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