Optical communications using multiplexed single sideband transmission and heterodyne detection
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a technology of optical fiber communication and heterodyne detection, applied in the field of optical fiber communications, can solve the problems of limiting the performance and/or utility of current optical fiber systems, further intensifying the demand, and achieving the effect of increasing the bandwidth utilization
Inactive Publication Date: 2006-12-28
FORSTER ENERGY
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[0021] The use of different polarizations yields many benefits. For example, subbands with different polarizations will interact less since they have different polarizations. Thus, unwanted effects due to phenomena such as four-wave mixing and cross-phase modulation will be reduced between the differently polarized subbands.
[0022] In another aspect of the invention, the transmitter subsystem includes two optical transmitters, an optical combiner, and an optical filter coupled in series. Each optical transmitter generates an optical signal containing both a lower optical sideband and an upper optical sideband (i.e., a double sideband optical signal). The optical combiner optically combines the two optical signals. The optical...
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Upcoming widespread deployment of new bandwidth-intensive services, such as xDSL, will only further intensify this demand.
However, current optical fiber systems also suffer from drawbacks which limit their performance and/or utility.
As a result, the components may not recombine correctly at the receiver, thus distorting or degrading the original signal.
In fact, at certain frequencies, the dispersive effect may result in destructive interference at the receiver, thus effectively preventing the transmission of signals at these frequencies.
However, the additional equipment results in additional power loss (e.g., insertion loss) as well as in additional cost, and different compensators will be required for different types and lengths of fiber.
Other fiber effects, such as fiber nonlinearities, can similarly degrade performance.
MZMs, however, are inherently nonlinear devices.
As a final example, optical fibers have an inherently large bandwidth available for the transmission of data, but constructing transmitters and receivers which can take advantage of this large bandwidth can be problematic.
First, curren...
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[0057]FIG. 1 is a diagram of a system 100 illustrating one aspect of the present invention. System 100 includes a transmitter 110 coupled to a receiver 130 by optical fiber 120. The receiver 130 preferably includes a heterodyne detector 180 coupled to a signal extractor 190. System 100 is used to transmit an information signal from transmitter 110 to receiver 130 via fiber 120.
[0058] With reference to the flow diagram of FIG. 2 as well as to FIG. 1, system 100 operates as follows. The frequency spectrum of an example information signal is shown by spectrum 140, which is characterized by a frequency fs. The frequency fs could be zero, for example, if the information signal is based on on-off keying. The information signal 140 may be any of a variety of signals. For example, it may be a single high speed data stream. Alternately, it may contain a number of data streams which are time-division multiplexed together, for example, if 64 OC-3 data streams are combined together to form a s...
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A transmitter subsystem generates an optical signal which contains multiple subbands of information. The subbands have different polarizations. For example, in one approach, two or more optical transmitters generate optical signals which have different polarizations. An optical combiner optically combines the optical signals into a composite optical signal for transmission across an optical fiber. In another approach, a single optical transmitter generates an optical signal with multiple subbands. The polarization of the subbands is varied, for example by using a birefringent crystal. In another aspect of the invention, each optical transmitter generates an optical signal containing both a lower optical sideband and an upper optical sideband (i.e., a double sideband optical signal). An optical filter selects the upper optical sideband of one optical signal and the lower optical sideband of another optical signal to produce a composite optical signal.
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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application is a continuation-in-part of pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09 / 728,373, “Optical Communications System Using Heterodyne Detection”, by Ting K. Yee and Peter H. Chang, filed Nov. 28, 2000, which is a continuation-in-part of pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09 / 474,659, “Optical Communications System Using Heterodyne Detection”, by Ting K. Yee and Peter H. Chang, filed Dec. 29, 1999. [0002] This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60 / 265,251, “Fiber Optic Communications Using Optical Single Sideband Transmission Including using Interleaver Filters and Heterodyne Detection and Apparatus for Impairment Compensation using Nonlinear Phase Conjugation,” by Ting K. Yee, et al., filed Jan. 30, 2001. [0003] This application relates to pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09 / 746,261, “Wavelength-Locking of Optical Sources,” by Shin-Sheng Tarng, et al., filed Dec. 20, ...
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IPC IPC(8): H04B10/00
CPCH04B10/50H04B10/64H04B10/61
Inventor YEE, TING K.CHANG, PETER H.TARNG, SHIN-SHENG M.CUTLER, GREGORY M.YAZHGUR, SLAVALI, JINEWELL, LAURENCE J.COWARD, JAMES F.ROWAN, MICHAEL W.SWENSON, NORMAN L.BASHAW, MATTHEW C.