Background
Currently, an Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing O-OFDM) technology based on high-order QAM modulation receives wide attention due to its high spectrum utilization rate and high tolerance to Optical fiber dispersion. Although a coherent light OFDM (CO-OFDM) system can reach the spectrum utilization rate (Spectral Efficiency SE) of 14bit/s/Hz, the CO-OFDM system is sensitive to frequency offset and phase noise and requires extremely narrow line widths of lasers at a transmitting end and a receiving end, which makes the design of the transmitting and receiving systems of the CO-OFDM very complicated.
Because the Direct detection OFDM (Direct detection DD-OFDM) signal contains the optical carrier component, the receiving end of the Direct detection OFDM signal can realize heterodyne beat frequency detection between the OOFDM signal and the optical carrier only by one square optical detector (PD), so that the receiving end of the Direct detection OFDM signal is greatly simplified compared with coherent detection; in addition, because the OOFDM signal and the optical carrier come from the same light source, the frequency offset and the phase drift are completely synchronous, and can be completely offset in an heterodyne beat frequency optical path, the requirement on the line width of the laser is low.
In the DD-OOFDM system, compared with a Double-Sideband (Double-Sideband) modulation technique, a Single-Sideband Optical OFDM (Optical Single-Sideband Optical OFDM SSB-OOFDM) modulation technique is more preferable because of higher spectrum utilization efficiency of an Optical signal and capability of overcoming an amplitude fading effect caused by chromatic dispersion of an Optical fiber.
In general, an O-OFDM signal transmitted in a DD-OFDM system is restored to the electrical domain by a square-rate photodetector at a receiving end, and a signal-to-signal beat interference (SSBI) is generated. Currently, several methods for reducing signal impairment by SSBI have been reported in the literature. A Guard Band (GB) large enough is set between the optical carrier and the optical OFDM signal, so that the spectrum of the SSBI in the photocurrent does not overlap with the spectrum of the radio frequency OFDM signal. To ensure the elimination of the effect of SSBI, the bandwidth of GB must not be smaller than the bandwidth of the optical OFDM signal, which reduces the spectral efficiency of the DD-OFDM system by more than half of that of the CO-OFDM system. Reducing GB in SSB-OOFDM may improve the SE of the system, but as GB decreases, the impact of SSBI on system performance increases. Although some schemes for reducing the impact of SSBI on system performance have been proposed, there are also deficiencies in system complexity and power cost. The spectrum efficiency of the polarization multiplexing technology SSB-OOFDM system is improved, but the influence of SSBI still exists, and meanwhile, polarization mode dispersion of the optical fiber link can cause the polarization directions of the two SSB-OOFDM signals which are polarization multiplexed together to randomly rotate, thereby causing the difficulty of polarization demultiplexing of the two SSB-OOFDM signals at the receiving end. Several methods for reducing the impact of SSBI on system performance are reported in the literature, but none address the impact of polarization mode dispersion, even if SSBI is eliminated, because of the coupling between polarization modes. The conventional method for solving the polarization direction rotation caused by polarization mode dispersion is to use a polarization stabilizer (polarization stabilizer) to extract polarization rotation information and then perform polarization direction rotation correction, but the polarization stabilizer has a relatively high cost and makes the receiving end more complicated. In addition, the two mixed signals can be separated by performing the Output signal processing through a multiple Input multiple Output (Multi Input Multi Output) technology at the receiving end, but a quite complicated digital signal processing process is required, and the implementation difficulty of the system is increased.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the problems, the invention provides a simple novel receiving method and a system based on optical balance detection, which realize the correct receiving of signals by reasonably designing the spectrum structure of PDM SSB-OOFDM signals, thereby not only eliminating SSBI, but also reducing the limit of frequency band protection bandwidth, improving the spectrum utilization rate of the PDM SSB-OFDM system, and simultaneously avoiding the influence caused by polarization mode dispersion.
The invention provides a PDM SSB-OOFDM signal receiving method and system based on an optical balance detector, which can eliminate beat frequency interference among signals, and can eliminate SSBI generated by photoelectric conversion of the PDM SSB-OOFDM signal by reasonably designing the spectrum of the PDM SSB-OOFDM signal and utilizing the differential cancellation function of the optical balance detector, further reduce the protection bandwidth between an optical carrier and the OOFDM signal, relax the limit of a PDM SSB-OOFDM system on GB, and improve the spectral efficiency of the system, wherein the system comprises:
as a preferred method, the spectral structure of the PDM SSB-OOFDM signal generated by the transmitting end is designed reasonably, so that the frequency spectrums of the OOFDM signal sidebands in the two SSB-OOFDM signals in the X and Y polarization directions are completely overlapped to improve the spectral efficiency, and the frequency of one optical carrier is higher than that of the OOFDM signal, and the frequency of the other optical carrier is lower than that of the OOFDM signal, that is, the optical carriers are respectively placed on both sides of the OOFDM signal.
As a preferred method, at the receiving end, the received PDM SSB-OOFDM signal is divided into four paths of equal power by a polarization insensitive optical power splitter, and different optical carriers are filtered by four different polarization insensitive optical bandpass filters: the first path filters the optical carrier wave in the Y polarization direction, and the OOFDM signal in the Y polarization direction, the optical carrier wave in the X polarization direction and the OOFDM signal are left; the second path and the third path are the same, optical carriers in the X and Y polarization directions are filtered, and only OOFDM signals in the X and Y polarization directions are left; and the fourth path filters the optical carrier wave in the X polarization direction, and the OOFDM signal in the X polarization direction, the optical carrier wave in the Y polarization direction and the OOFDM signal are remained.
As a preferred method, the four optical bandpass filters may adopt a filter with a steep falling edge, so that the protection bandwidth may be sufficiently reduced, and simultaneously, the damage of the optical filter to the optical carrier and the optical OFDM signal may be avoided to the greatest extent.
As a preferred method, the first and second filtered optical signals are injected into a first optical balanced detector, the differential current output by the optical balanced detector only contains the OFDM signal carried by the X-polarized light wave and a dc component, and the SSBI in two polarization directions are eliminated; similarly, after filtering, the third and fourth optical signals are photoelectrically converted by the second optical balance detector, the output differential photocurrent only contains the Y polarization direction OFDM signal and one dc component, and the SSBI components in the two polarization directions are eliminated. The method can eliminate the influence of beat frequency interference between signals on OFDM signals, so that a guard band between an optical carrier and OOFDM signals can be reduced or canceled, the spectrum utilization rate of a system is improved, and the selection of a guard interval (GB) between the optical carrier and the OOFDM signals needs to be balanced by considering the spectral efficiency of the system and the requirement of the steepness of edge roll-off of a filter in the filtering process. The polarization direction rotation of the optical signal shows randomness at different moments due to the polarization film dispersion of the optical fiber, but at a certain moment, the polarization direction rotations of the optical signals in all polarization directions are synchronous, that is, it can be considered that two paths of SSB-OOFDM signals in the PDM SSB-OOFDM signals can maintain the orthogonality of polarization at any moment or in a small time period, but the polarization direction rotates randomly relative to the initial moment; meanwhile, the polarization beam splitter is not adopted at the receiving end for polarization demultiplexing, and the optical power splitter and the optical bandpass filter are polarization insensitive devices, so that the influence of polarization mode dispersion is avoided.
Preferably, the two photodetectors in the light balance detector have the same performance parameters and sufficient response bandwidth, and the output is in a differential form, that is, the current I (t) of each light balance detection output is the photocurrent I (t) output by the two photodetectors in the light balance detector1(t) and I2(t) the subtracted difference I (t) I1(t)-I2(t)。
As a preferred method, the present invention provides an optical balanced detection transceiver system capable of eliminating beat interference between PDM SSB-OOFDM signals, comprising:
the optical power divider is used for equally dividing the received PDM SSB-OOFDM signals into four parts which are the same and insensitive to polarization mode dispersion;
the four optical bandpass filter devices are used for realizing optical carrier suppression in different polarization directions and are insensitive to polarization mode dispersion;
and the two optical balance detection circuits are used for carrying out optical balance detection on the four paths of optical signals output by the optical filter, are insensitive to polarization mode dispersion, and output differential photocurrents respectively comprise RF-OFDM signals modulated onto optical waves by the transmitting end.
After the technical scheme provided by the invention is adopted, SSBI generated by the PDM SSB-OOFDM signal in the photoelectric conversion process is eliminated, the output photocurrent only comprises OFDM signal components and direct current components, a required protection bandwidth GB is not required to be reserved for avoiding the frequency spectrum overlapping of the SSBI and the OFDM signal, the limit of the PDM SSB-OOFDM system on the GB is relaxed, a precondition is provided for reducing the protection bandwidth GB between an optical carrier and the OOFDM signal, and the frequency spectrum efficiency of the system can be improved. Meanwhile, the instantaneous synchronism of the polarization direction of the optical signal caused by the polarization film dispersion of the optical fiber adopts an optical power divider and an optical bandpass filter which are insensitive to polarization, so that the influence of polarization mode dispersion is effectively avoided; compared with other PDM SSB-OOFDM receivers which utilize a polarization beam splitter to carry out polarization demultiplexing, the proposed PDM SSB-OOFDM system receiver is quite simple because complex MIMO algorithm and digital signal processing process are needed to solve the problem caused by polarization mode dispersion.
Detailed Description
To make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a block diagram and a spectrum diagram of a receiving system according to the present embodiment.
The invention adopts a novel receiving method for PDM SSB-OOFDM signals based on light balance detection to eliminate the influence of SSBI on signal demodulation, improve the spectrum utilization efficiency of a system and simultaneously avoid the influence of polarization mode dispersion when the PDM SSB-OOFDM signals are transmitted in optical fibers. In order to achieve the above effect, the following steps are required:
first, a PDM SSB-OOFDM signal is generated at the transmitting end, as shown in fig. 2. To improve spectral efficiency, the OOFDM signals of the X and Y polarization directions overlap spectrally, and to meet this, the PDMFrequency f of X and Y polarization direction optical carriers of SSB-OOFDM signalsCX、fCYFrequency f of radio frequency carrier of radio frequency OFDM signalRFX、fRFYThe conditions are required to be satisfied: f. ofCX+fRFX=fCY-fRFY. Firstly, the continuous laser outputs 193.100THz of central carrier frequency and 100MHz of line width, MZM biased at the minimum transmission point is modulated by a radio frequency local oscillator with the frequency of 9GHz, and two first-order optical sidebands with the frequency of 193.091THz and 193.109THz are output. An optical carrier E in the X and Y polarization directions is passed through an optical wavelength Interleaver (IL)CX(t) and ECY(t) are separated and their spectra are shown in the insets (a) and (b) of FIG. 2, respectively.
For generating a baseband OFDM signal S in two polarization directionsX(t)、SY(t), a transmitting terminal maps two independent binary sequences with the bit rate of 56Gb/s into two 16QAM signal sequences, and then the two 16QAM signal sequences are respectively subjected to IFFT conversion through 256 points, wherein 128 subcarriers carrying information bear 16QAM signals, and the rest subcarriers are subjected to zero padding to realize oversampling of OFDM symbols; generation of an analog baseband OFDM signal S by digital-to-analog conversionX(t)、SY(t) of (d). Since this example is intended to demonstrate that the system and method of the present invention can eliminate the effect of SSBI on signal demodulation and verify the insensitivity of the system to polarization mode dispersion, the OFDM signal generated adds a cyclic prefix of 32 points in view of fiber transmission. The two baseband OFDM signals SX(t)、SY(t) applying the signal to a radio frequency signal with a frequency of 9GHz by quadrature modulation in the electrical domain to generate a frequency band OFDM signal VRFX(t)、VRFY(t)。
Radio frequency OFDM signal VRFX(t)、VRFY(t) modulating optical carrier E modulated by MZM to frequencies 193.091THz and 193.109THz in DSB formCX(t) and ECY(t), the bandwidth of the sideband OOFDM signal is 14GHz, and the protection bandwidth between the OOFDM signal and the optical carrier is 2 GHz; adjusting by a polarization controller to make the two polarizations orthogonal, filtering out the outside unnecessary optical variable band by PBC polarization sum path and then an optical band-pass filter with the center frequency of 193.100THz and the bandwidth of 20GHz, and simulating the spectral diagram as shown in figure 1(c)The resulting optical power spectrum adds the signals of both polarization directions together as shown in fig. 3. The resulting PDM SSB-OOFDM signal may be represented as
The guard interval between the optical carrier and the OOFDM signal may be adjusted by changing the frequency of the radio frequency local oscillator signal, while the bandwidth of the filter may also be adaptively changed.
At the receiving end, the optical receiving method and system proposed by the patent perform photoelectric conversion on the PDM SSB-OOFDM signal. The PDM SSB-OOFDM signals transmitted by the optical fiber are equally divided into four paths of same PDM SSB-OOFDM signals by the optical power divider, and the first path filters optical carrier waves E in the Y polarization direction
CY(t), leaving OOFDM signal E in the Y polarization direction
SY(t) and optical carrier and OOFDM signal E in the X polarization direction
CX(t)+E
SX(t) that is
The second path is the same as the third path, and simultaneously filters the optical carriers E in the X and Y polarization directions
CX(t) and E
CY(t), leaving only the OOFDM signals E in the X and Y polarization directions
SX(t) and E
SY(t) that is
Fourth path of optical carrier E for filtering out X polarization direction
CX(t), leaving OOFDM signal E in the X polarization direction
SX(t) optical carrier and OOFDM signal E in both Y and Y polarization directions
CY(t)+E
SY(t) that is
The spectral diagrams of the four optical signals after being filtered by the optical filters are shown in fig. 1(b) - (e), wherein the dotted lines represent the optical carriers filtered by the filters. The four optical signals are then injected into two optical balanced detectors, respectively. Each light balance detector comprises two Photodetectors (PD) with the same performance parameter, and the two photodetectors are connected into a wholeAnd carrying out a differential form to realize the subtraction operation of the two paths of light currents. The first and second paths of optical signals are injected into the first optical balance detector, wherein the output photocurrents of the two photodetectors are
Output photocurrent as
The photocurrent only contains the RF-OFDM signal and dc components carried by the X-polarization direction light waves, while the SSBI term is eliminated. Two photoelectric detectors output photocurrent I1(t)、I2(t) and differential output photocurrent IXThe schematic diagram of the radio frequency power spectrum of (t) is shown in fig. 1(f), (g) and (j), respectively, and the radio frequency power spectrum of the output photocurrent of the first photo-balance detector obtained by simulation is shown in fig. 4.
Similarly, the third and fourth optical signals are injected into the second optical balanced detector, and the output photocurrent of the two photodetectors realizes the output photocurrent of the optical current by the electric domain subtraction through the differential circuit
The photocurrent only contains the RF-OFDM signal and dc components carried by the Y polarization direction optical waves, while the SSBI term is eliminated. Two photoelectric detectors output photocurrent I3(t)、I4(t) and differential output photocurrent IYThe schematic diagram of the radio frequency power spectrum of (t) is shown in fig. 1(h), (i) and (k), respectively, and the radio frequency power spectrum of the output photocurrent of the second photo-balance detector obtained by simulation is shown in fig. 5.
By adopting the transceiving system and the transceiving method provided by the invention, SSBI is eliminated for photoelectric conversion of PDM SSB-OOFDM signals, optical domain demultiplexing of RF-OFDM signals carried in two polarization directions is realized, and the necessity of setting GB for avoiding spectrum overlapping of the SSBI and the RF-OFDM signals in photocurrent is theoretically eliminated. Even if the bandwidth 14GHz of the PDM SSB-OOFDM signal is greater than the guard bandwidth GB of 2GHz in this example, the demodulation of the OFDM signal is not seriously affected. 16QAM constellations obtained by demodulating the baseband OFDM signals obtained by coherently demodulating the RF OFDM signals carried in the X and Y polarization directions by an OFDM signal receiver are shown in fig. 6 and 7, showing that the performance is good. Adjusting the radio frequency local oscillator frequency to change between 7GHz and 25GHz, changing the corresponding guard interval GB between 0GHz and 18GHz, calculating an Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) under different GB conditions by a simulation system, and giving a change relationship of the calculated EVM with respect to GB in fig. 8. It can be seen that the EVM of the system remains below 16.3% at all times when the guard bandwidth is greater than 2 GHz.
In addition, the instant synchronism of the polarization direction of the optical signal by the polarization film dispersion of the optical fiber, that is, the rotation of the polarization direction of the optical signal by the polarization film dispersion of the optical fiber shows randomness at different times, but at a certain time, the rotation of the polarization direction of the optical signal in all the polarization directions is synchronous, and it can be considered that the orthogonality of the polarization can be maintained by two paths of SSB-OOFDM signals in the PDM SSB-OOFDM signals at any time or in a small time period; meanwhile, the polarization beam splitter is not adopted at the receiving end for polarization demultiplexing, and the optical power splitter and the optical bandpass filter are polarization insensitive devices, so that the influence of polarization mode dispersion is effectively avoided, and the problem caused by the polarization mode dispersion is not required to be processed by a complex MIMO technology. Fig. 9 shows EVM curves of PDM SSB-OOFDM signals transmitted through optical fibers at different distances and constellations of demodulated 16-QAM signals.
The above description is only for the specific embodiments of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily conceive of the changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present invention, and all the changes or substitutions should be covered within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the appended claims.