Polarization diversity optical heterodyne coherent receiving method and system
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the field of optical communication, relates to a method and a system based on optical heterodyne coherent reception, and particularly relates to a receiving end demodulation method based on Nyquist matching filtering, and a corresponding receiver structure and a corresponding system.
Background
The coherent optical communication system has the advantages of high sensitivity and long transmission distance, and is an important solution for medium and long distance optical fiber communication transmission systems. Coherent optical communication systems can be divided into homodyne detection and heterodyne detection. The homodyne detection system sets the frequency of the local oscillation light to be the same as the frequency of the signal optical carrier, and the frequency of the local oscillation light of the heterodyne detection system has a frequency offset from the frequency of the signal optical carrier.
A coherent receiver, which is common in optical communication systems at present, includes an optical coupler, a polarization-controlled beam splitter, a mixer, and an optical detector. Homodyne coherent receivers have been described in a number of documents and patents. For each polarization signal, an optical mixer and two balanced photodetectors are usually required to implement in-phase and quadrature two-path reception demodulation of the signal. It can be seen that such a configuration results in a system with a large number of components, relatively large size, and relatively high cost. It is to be appreciated that this invention is susceptible to further improvements and innovations.
Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the technical problems in the prior art, the invention aims to provide a scheme of a heterodyne receiver for polarization diversity, and a structure and a system for realizing the method.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:
a polarization multiplexing modulation mode based on Nyquist filtering comprises the following steps:
the first step is as follows: determining the baud rate of the modulation signal according to the bandwidth of each device of the system;
the second step is that: light from a light source is divided into two paths through a coupler of 50:50, X and Y polarization signals are respectively modulated, the main content comprises mapping from a binary sequence to a constellation diagram symbol, a frame leader sequence and Nyquist shaping filtering are added, and the two paths are combined into one path through a polarization beam combiner to form a polarization multiplexing light modulation signal (namely the polarization multiplexing signal light input into a receiver in the figure 1);
the third step: the polarization-multiplexed signal light is received at a receiving end. The local oscillator light is adjusted to a proper frequency (generally required: 1) which is slightly larger than a half of the baud rate of the signal light, and the signal light is ensured to be on one side of the local oscillator light; 2) the method comprises the steps of subtracting half of a signal baud rate from a receiver photoelectric detector bandwidth, ensuring that signal light does not exceed the photoelectric detector bandwidth after being converted into an electric signal, splitting local oscillator light by using a light splitter, splitting signal light by using a polarization beam splitter, and then combining the local oscillator light and the signal light by using an optical coupler (as long as two coupled beams of light keep the same polarization direction, wherein the two coupled beams of light can be combined by using an optical combiner (as shown in figure 4) or a 1 × 2MMI interferometer (as shown in figure 5)), so as to form a polarization diversity optical heterodyne receiving scheme.
Further, the signal at the transmitting end is preprocessed before the polarization beam combiner, and the preprocessing comprises modulator nonlinear precompensation, dispersion precompensation or fiber Kerr nonlinear precompensation.
Further, signal-signal beat frequency damage generated by square law detection of a single-ended Photoelectric Detector (PD) is eliminated by utilizing an iterative algorithm in Digital Signal Processing (DSP) for a receiving end signal.
An optical heterodyne coherent receiving system for implementing the method comprises a transmitting end and a receiving end,
the transmitting end includes:
the transmitting end Nyquist filtering module is used for compressing the frequency spectrum to be close to a square under the condition of ensuring that the receiving end has no intersymbol interference (ISI), and improving the frequency spectrum utilization rate; (the maximum signal-to-noise ratio can be achieved using the same pair of filters for the originating and receiving ends.
The receiving end includes:
an optical filter module for removing unwanted out-of-band information;
a polarization diversity heterodyne receiver module. The polarization multiplexing optical signal is used for separating X, Y single polarization signal light and then respectively converting the signal light into two paths of electric signals through a single-ended photoelectric detector. The system specifically comprises the following six modules:
the signal optical coupling module is connected with the optical filter module and used for realizing the coupling of the signal light from the transmission optical fiber to the receiving system;
the polarization beam splitting module is connected with the signal light coupling module and used for realizing polarization beam splitting of the signal light;
the local oscillator optical coupling module is used for realizing the coupling of local oscillator light from the laser to a receiving system;
the optical splitter module is connected with the local oscillator optical coupling module and used for realizing uniform beam splitting of local oscillator light;
the optical beam combiner module is connected with the polarization beam splitting module and the optical beam splitter module and used for combining the signal light and the local oscillator light;
the single-ended optical detector module is connected with the optical beam combiner module and used for realizing the optical power detection after beam combination;
the signal-signal beat frequency interference compensation module is connected with the single-ended optical detector module and is used for compensating signal-signal beat frequency interference (SSBI);
the down-conversion module is connected with the signal-signal beat frequency interference compensation module and is used for converting the electric signal received by the Photoelectric Detector (PD) into a baseband signal;
and the receiving end Nyquist filtering module is connected with the down-conversion module and is used for eliminating intersymbol interference (ISI) and improving the signal-to-noise ratio.
And the joint equalization module is used for simultaneously equalizing the two polarized optical signals and then outputting and demodulating.
Further, still include:
and the transmitting end modulation module is used for mapping the original binary sequence in a modulation format (such as a quadrature amplitude phase modulation (QAM) format) and inserting the synchronization series and the training sequence as a frame structure preamble sequence.
And the transmitting terminal preprocessing module is used for preprocessing the transmitting terminal signal and then sending the signal to the communication channel.
And the receiving end demodulation module is used for carrying out optimal sampling point optimization and X-Y polarization 2X2 combined channel equalization on the sequence after the receiving end matched filtering, and judging and demodulating the sequence back to a binary sequence.
Further, the preprocessing performed by the front-end data processing module includes: nonlinear compensation of a modulator, dispersion pre-compensation and Kerr nonlinear compensation of optical fibers.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following positive effects:
the method combines an iterative cancellation signal-signal beat frequency interference compensation algorithm under the condition of heterodyne coherent detection, provides a heterodyne coherent receiver structure and an algorithm based on a single-ended photoelectric detector, and realizes the receiving of polarization multiplexing signals. Compared with the traditional coherent optical receiver with a balanced optical detector, the invention utilizes the single-ended optical detector, has the characteristics of simple structure, small size and low cost, and can approach to balanced detection in the aspect of error rate performance.
Drawings
Fig. 1 is a block diagram of an overall receiving system of an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a flowchart of a digital signal processing method based on polarization diversity heterodyne coherent reception according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is a detail of the flow of X-Y polarization joint equalization in the digital signal processing method module.
Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of a receiver portion of an embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 5 is a diagram of an implementation of a receiver portion of an embodiment of the invention, an on-chip integrated heterodyne coherent receiver.
Detailed Description
The present invention will be described in further detail below with reference to specific examples and the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a block diagram of the overall receiving system of the present embodiment, which is composed of a receiver structure and a subsequent digital signal processing section; see figures 2, 3, 4, 5 for details.
The following describes the implementation of the technical solution in detail with reference to the algorithm flow chart 2 of this embodiment.
The first step is as follows: determining the baud rate of the transmitted IQ signal according to the system frequency bandwidth;
and secondly, carrying out Nyquist filtering with roll-off coefficient α at the transmitting end, wherein the purpose is to compress the spectrum of the IQ signal into an approximate square, and generally α can be ensured to be 0.01.
Before being transmitted to a communication channel, the signal is typically dispersion pre-compensated in the frequency domain:
Spre(f)=S(f)·exp(-β2Lω2/2),
wherein S ispre(f) Is the frequency domain data after pre-compensation, S (f) is the frequency domain data before pre-compensation, β2And L is the length of the optical fiber, and omega is the angular frequency of each frequency point on the signal frequency domain relative to the local oscillator light.
The third step: optical filtering is first performed at the receiving end. Filtering noise outside a signal bandwidth; the received polarization multiplexing signal light is divided into two paths of X and Y single polarization signals after passing through a polarization beam splitter or a two-dimensional grating; mixing each polarized signal (X and Y single-polarized signals) with a local oscillator respectively, and detecting the signals by a single-ended optical detector to obtain an electric signal of the X single-polarized signal and an electric signal of the Y single-polarized signal; then, in the signal-signal beat frequency interference compensation module, firstly compensating the signal-signal beat frequency interference generated by the single-ended photoelectric detector:
wherein
For the interference-compensated signal, r
i(t) represents the received local oscillator light and signal light beat frequency signal, λ is the amplitude factor dependent on the local oscillator light and signal light power ratio, and Hilbert (·) represents Hilbert transform. This process may be iterated multiple times to gradually improve performance, typically substantially stabilizing after 4 to 6 times. Since this process does not involve decision demodulation, the computational complexity is low.
The resulting signal is then down-converted:
the signal after down conversion is then nyquist matched filtered.
And finally, demodulating a receiving end, including optimizing an optimal sampling point, carrying out 2 multiplied by 2 combined channel equalization on the X-Y polarization, compensating the polarization mode dispersion of the optical fiber channel, and carrying out polarization rotation, judgment and demodulation between the transmitting end and the receiving end.
Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of an X-Y polarization joint channel equalization process, in which X, Y two polarization signal inputs undergo 2X2 Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) joint equalization to obtain polarization mode dispersion of a compensation fiber channel and X, Y polarization output after polarization rotation between the transceiving ends. Where the MIMO part consists essentially of four transfer functions, X to X, X to Y, Y to X, Y to Y.
Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of a receiver portion. The signal light is coupled to a system and is subjected to polarization beam splitting to form a first light beam and a second light beam; the local oscillation light is coupled to the system, is divided into two paths by the beam splitter, is respectively combined with the first signal beam and the second signal beam, enters the optical detector for detection, and obtains an electric signal of an X single-polarization signal and an electric signal of a Y single-polarization signal.
FIG. 5 shows a schematic diagram of an on-chip integrated heterodyne receiver as an implementation of the receiver architecture. The structure comprises a two-dimensional coupling grating, a one-dimensional coupling grating, a 1 x2 multimode interference (MMI) beam splitter, two 2x 2MMI interferometers and two silicon germanium light detectors. The polarization multiplexing signal light is coupled to the sheet through the two-dimensional coupling grating module, the separation and conversion of the polarization directions which are orthogonal to each other are realized, and two output beams of light, namely an X polarization signal and a Y polarization signal, are both in a TE0 mode in the silicon single-mode waveguide; the local oscillation light is coupled to the chip through the one-dimensional coupling grating to become a TE0 mode in the silicon single-mode waveguide; the 1 x 2MMI beam splitter module is connected with the one-dimensional coupling grating to realize the uniform beam splitting of the local oscillator light 50:50 and respectively combine the local oscillator light with the signal light beam I and the signal light beam II; two input ports of the 2x 2MMI interferometer module are respectively connected with the 1 x 2MMI beam splitter module and the two-dimensional coupling grating module, so that the first signal beam and the local oscillator light, and the second signal beam and the local oscillator light are respectively combined; and finally, the two single-ended light detector modules are respectively connected with the two beams of combined beams of light, output current signals, namely the electric signal of the X single-polarization signal and the electric signal of the Y single-polarization signal, are detected according to the square rate, and are collected to enter a digital signal processing stage. It should be noted that each 2 × 2MMI interferometer has two wide output ports, and these two ports have equivalent functions, and only one of the outputs needs to be used.
The above embodiments are only intended to illustrate the technical solution of the present invention and not to limit the same, and a person skilled in the art can modify the technical solution of the present invention or substitute the same without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention, and the scope of the present invention should be determined by the claims.