We present the transponder design and verification to obtain over 10 Gbit/s capability for an optical feeder link. The transponder employing a transmitter and a receiver supports differential phase shift keying (DPSK) optical communication. In order to provide receiver stability against optical power fluctuations, we utilize the terrestrial technology and devices such as clock data recovery (CDR), a hard-decision forward error correction (FEC) and temperature control of delay line interferometer (DLI) to realize the enhancement of dynamic range of received optical power. We have also investigated reliability of terrestrial devices including photonics integration circuit (PIC) type DLI and CDR for satellites.
Adoption of terrestrial optical communication devices are effective to realize a free-space optical communication technology for satellite use earlier. However, the quality assurance level of terrestrial optical communication devices has not generally been reached for satellite use. In this paper, we described a screening test method to update the quality assurance level of optical communication devices for satellite use.
KEYWORDS: Polarization, Digital signal processing, Receivers, Signal detection, Telecommunications, Free space optical communications, Oscillators, Free space optics, Modulation, Data communications
Single polarization high-speed optical transmission is important for bidirectional free-space optical communication
system in order to have enough isolation up-link and down-link by signal discrimination using orthogonal polarization
states. At recent advance in digital coherent technology, polarization re-combining in combination with polarization
diversity receiver is widely used to suppress performance degradation when polarization states of signal and local
oscillator are misaligned by system vibration or shocks. However, in order to implement the re-combining function in
digital signal processing, appropriate algorithm is required for realizing the system stability. In this paper, we
demonstrate a new algorithm implementation for single polarization receiver with maximal-ratio-combining (MRC)
technique. First we exhibited the problem for state-of-the-art polarization re-combining in instability due to singularity
condition at 45-degree-azimuth elliptic polarization. In order to overcome this problem, we proposed a newly MRC
algorithm added splitting ratio dependent phase correction coefficients and achieved stable re-combining at 45-degreeazimuth
elliptic polarization signal. And we successfully demonstrated the stable receiving for 50-Gb/s single
polarization QPSK signal with all polarization states by our digital coherent receiver platforms added the newly MRC
algorithm, compared with previous-proposed MRC algorithm.
Advantages of optical links like small, lightweight and power efficient terminals are practical for high data rate
services of disaster preparedness and environmental research. In this paper, we demonstrate experimental results of 40-Gbit/s optical free space transmission using single-polarization quadrature phase shift keying (SP-QPSK) modulation
format and digital coherent detection. The digital coherent detection enabled a high sensitivity and a tolerance to
transmission impairments, which have attractive features for free space transmission system. We developed a 50-Gbit/s
SP-QPSK transmitter and offline-receiver with the optical antenna system. SP-QPSK optical modulation signal with a
line rate of 50-Gbit/s including 20% FEC is employed for high receiver sensitivity. A cascade by EDFAs consisting of a
low noise pre-EDFA and an optical level controlled EDFA is developed to compensate for level fluctuation without
degrading receiver sensitivity. Maximal ratio combining algorithms and carrier phase estimation algorithms are used at
the offline-receiver for QPSK signal detection. We succeeded 4-meter indoor free space transmission having same
performance as that with fiber connection using the developed system. The optical received power was -42 dBm at bit
error rate of 10-3. While for outdoor 50-meter transmission, we confirmed the received bit error rate larger than FEC
limit.
We investigated ultrafast optical signal processing schemes utilizing mode-locked semiconductor laser diodes (MLLDs) for optical time-division multiplexing (OTDM) transmission at over 100 Gbit/s and developed a polarization-insensitive all-optical clock recovery scheme for an optical-electrical hybrid phase-locked loop (PLL) operating at 160 Gbit/s. In this scheme, the MLLD functions as a voltage-controlled oscillator to which the error signal is fed back by forming a closed loop with a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) used as a phase comparator and with a low-frequency component used as a filter. Cross-gain modulation in the SOA enables high-frequency PLL operation at 160 Gbit/s. A bulk active layer in the SOA with small polarization dependency is the origin of the polarization insensitive clock extraction. Testing of all-optical clock extraction on an OTDM transmission test bed of 254-km field-installed fibers (Dojima-Keihanna, 63.5 km, and four spans) at 160 Gbit/s showed that the measured root-mean-square timing jitter of the recovered clock signal was as low as 240 fs. This clock extraction scheme is thus practical for use in OTDM systems operating at over 100 Gbit/s.
A 400 Gbps backplane switch was developed with low-cost, small-size, 8-channels 10 Gbps/port optical I/O and a SiGe Bi-CMOS switch LSI on a 60x60-mm2 BGA package. It indicates the applicability of backplane switch for high throughput backplane interconnections.
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