Coupling plane wave into a single-mode fiber （SMF） with high and steady coupling efficiency is crucial for fiber- based free-space laser systems, where random angular jitters are the main influencing factors of fibe...Coupling plane wave into a single-mode fiber （SMF） with high and steady coupling efficiency is crucial for fiber- based free-space laser systems, where random angular jitters are the main influencing factors of fiber coupling. In this paper, we verified a new adaptive-optic device named adaptive fiber coupler （AFC） which could compensate angular jitters and improve the SMF coupling efficiency in some degree. Experiments of SMF coupling under the angular jitter situation using AFC have been achieved. Stochastic parallel gradient descent （SPGD） algorithm is employed as the control strategy, of which the iteration rate is 625 Hz. In closed loop, the coupling efficiency keeps above 65% when angular errors are below 80/3tad. The compensation bandwidth is 35 Hz at sine-jitter of 15 ~rad amplitude with average coupling efficiency of above 60%. Also, experiments with simulated turbulence have been studied. The average coupling efficiency increases from 31.97% in open loop to 61.33% in closed loop, and mean square error （MSE） of coupling efficiency drops from 7.43% to 1.75%.展开更多
A programmable transversal equalizer for electronic dispersion compensation(EDC) in optical fiber communication systems is developed.Based on the SiGe technology with a cut-off frequency of 80 GHz,the equalizer consis...A programmable transversal equalizer for electronic dispersion compensation(EDC) in optical fiber communication systems is developed.Based on the SiGe technology with a cut-off frequency of 80 GHz,the equalizer consists of 6 seriesparallel amplifiers as delay units and 7 Gilbert variable gain amplifiers as taps,which ensure that the equalizer can work at the bit rate of 10 Gb/s.With different tap gains,the forward voltage gain of the transversal equalizer varies,which demonstrates that the equalizer has various filtering characteristics such as low pass filtering,band pass filtering,band reject filtering,and notch filtering,so it can effectively simulate the inverse transfer function of dispersive channels in optical communications,and can be used for compensating the inter-symbol interference and other nonlinear problems caused by dispersion.The equalizer(including pads) occupies an area of 0.40 mm × 1.08 mm,and its total power dissipation is 400 mW with 3.3 V power supply.展开更多
A 40-Gb/s optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) return-to-zero (RZ) transmission experiments including a dynamic polarization mode dispersion (PMD) compensation was reported. The dynamic PMD compensator is made up...A 40-Gb/s optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) return-to-zero (RZ) transmission experiments including a dynamic polarization mode dispersion (PMD) compensation was reported. The dynamic PMD compensator is made up of two-stage four degrees of freedom (DOF). The first stage adopts polarization controller and fixed time-delayed line. The second stage is variable differential group delay (DGD) element. The PMD monitoring technique is based on degree of polarization (DOP) as error signal. A novel practical adaptive optimization algorithm was introduced in dynamic adaptive PMD compensation. The experimental results show that the performance of the PMD compensator is excellent for 40-Gb/s RZ transmission systems with the large DGD. With this compensator, a significant improvement of system performance can be achieved in the eye pattern of a received signal. The first-order compensating ability of the compensator is greater than 30 ps. The second-order compensating ability is greater than 200 ps2. The first-order optimum compensating time is within 10 ms. The second-order optimum compensating time is within 24 ms.展开更多
Integrated diffractive optical mode converter, consisting of a diffractive optical element (DOE) and a slab waveguide, is used for fiber-to-waveguide coupling. The phase of the DOE is generally designed by optimizatio...Integrated diffractive optical mode converter, consisting of a diffractive optical element (DOE) and a slab waveguide, is used for fiber-to-waveguide coupling. The phase of the DOE is generally designed by optimization algorithm. In this paper, the precise design, a new method with one more restrictive way, is adopted to design the diffractive optical mode converter for fiber-to-waveguide coupling. Through this method, the intensity of any point on the output plane is fully filled with the required demand. Compared with what previously published, the coupling loss of the precise designed converter is lower.展开更多
We present a modified method to design photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) with flattened dispersion char- acteristic. Using this modified PCF we design a broadband fiber optical parametric amplifier (FOPA), which provides...We present a modified method to design photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) with flattened dispersion char- acteristic. Using this modified PCF we design a broadband fiber optical parametric amplifier (FOPA), which provides a gain of 8 dB with 1.5-dB uniformity over a 260-nm bandwidth. Both the simulation results of total dispersion of PCF and the gain spectrum of FOPA are demonstrated.展开更多
We propose a 1st and 2nd order polarization mode dispersion emulator （PMDE） with one variable differential group delay （DGD） clement using birefringence crystals and four polarization controllers （PCs）. Monte Ca...We propose a 1st and 2nd order polarization mode dispersion emulator （PMDE） with one variable differential group delay （DGD） clement using birefringence crystals and four polarization controllers （PCs）. Monte Carlo simulations demonstrate that the output 1st and 2nd order polarization mode dispersion （PMD） generated by the PMDE consists with statistic theory. Compared with former PMDEs, this design is tunable, lower-cost, and more integrated for fabrication, which shows response time of 150μs, response frequency of 3.8 kHz, working wavelength of 1550 nm, total power consumption of less than 3 W, working range of 0 84 ps and 0 3600 ps^2 for 1st and 2nd order PMD emulation, respectively. Also, it is programmable and can be controlled by either singlechip or computer. It can be applied to study the outage probability of optical communication systems due to PMD effect and the effectiveness of PMD compensation.展开更多
In this Letter, we propose an optical attenuator based on the phase modulation of a spatial light modulator （SLM）. In this system, we use two polarized beam splitters （PBSs） to control the polarized light and one ...In this Letter, we propose an optical attenuator based on the phase modulation of a spatial light modulator （SLM）. In this system, we use two polarized beam splitters （PBSs） to control the polarized light and one SLM to modulate the phase of the polarized light. In the initial state, the light beam is divided into p-light and s-light when it passes through the first PBS. When the light passes through the second PBS, s-light is reflected and p-light is detected by the CCD camera. By loading different grayscales on the SLM, p-light changes its polarized state to s-light. The light power can be attenuated during the loading process. Our experiment shows that the system can obtain a wide optical attenuation from 1-27.2 dB. When loading two grayscales, the SLM has a fast switching time of 25 ms under a low actuated voltage of 5.5 V. The response time of the optical attenuator depends on the switching time of the SLM. Therefore, the system can also have a fast response time. By using the method of spatial multiplexing and adding two mirrors in the system, it can also be extended into a 1 × 2 optical switch. The results verify its feasibility. The optical attenuator has wide applications in photonic signal processing and fiber-optic communication.展开更多
A low cost 8×10-Gb/s transmission system over 1500 km on conventional fiber using chirped fiber Bragg grating （CFBG） as dispersion compensator is demonstrated. The bit error rate （BER） below 10^-10 at 1500 km...A low cost 8×10-Gb/s transmission system over 1500 km on conventional fiber using chirped fiber Bragg grating （CFBG） as dispersion compensator is demonstrated. The bit error rate （BER） below 10^-10 at 1500 km is obtained. The channel spacing is 0.8 nm and the optical amplifier spacing is 100 km. Only 16 erbium-doped fiber amplifiers （EDFAs） are used.展开更多
Taking into account the randomicity of collision positions and the arbitrary encoding of data in channel, the influences of different dispersion management on collision-induced timing jitter in a filtered wavelength d...Taking into account the randomicity of collision positions and the arbitrary encoding of data in channel, the influences of different dispersion management on collision-induced timing jitter in a filtered wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) soliton system are obtained statistically and numerically by applying a set of coupled ordinary differential equations which are derived through variational procedure. The optimal dispersion managements which can greatly reduce the collision-induced timing jitter are found. The multi-channel collision-induced timing jitters in a filtered WDM soliton system are given with an optimal dispersion management and constant dispersion.展开更多
A Galerkin's method-based numerical procedure is extended to obtain the modal field distribution of multicore photonic crystal fibers for the first time to our knowledge, which can reveal how the air hole size inf...A Galerkin's method-based numerical procedure is extended to obtain the modal field distribution of multicore photonic crystal fibers for the first time to our knowledge, which can reveal how the air hole size influences the mode coupling and how the coupling strength varies with wavelength. These results will be helpful in the future design of multicore photonic crystal fibers with proper guidance properties.展开更多
Experiment was conducted to study Gaussian pulse transmission over ultra-high PMD fiber. Gaussian pulse is broken into a series of deformed pulses when it transmits over ultra-high PMD fiber. It is indicated that the ...Experiment was conducted to study Gaussian pulse transmission over ultra-high PMD fiber. Gaussian pulse is broken into a series of deformed pulses when it transmits over ultra-high PMD fiber. It is indicated that the walk-off deformed pulses were caused by ultra-high PMD. Transmitted experiment has been done using fiber with PMD coefficient 237.95ps/km1/2. The result of the experiment is consistent with the simulated one.展开更多
Considering the air-water interface and ocean water’s optical attenuation,the performance of quantum key distribution(QKD)based on air-water channel is studied.The effects of photons’various incident angles to air-w...Considering the air-water interface and ocean water’s optical attenuation,the performance of quantum key distribution(QKD)based on air-water channel is studied.The effects of photons’various incident angles to air-water interface on quantum bit error rate(QBER)and the maximum secure transmission distance are analyzed.Taking the optical attenuation of ocean water into account,the performance bounds of QKD in different types of ocean water are discussed.The simulation results show that the maximum secure transmission distance of QKD gradually reduces as the incident angle from air to ocean water increases.In the clearest ocean water with the lowest attenuation,the maximum secure transmission distance of photons far exceeds the the working depth of underwater vehicles.In intermediate and murky ocean waters with higher attenuation,the secure transmission distance shortens,but the underwater vehicle can deploy other accessorial methods for QKD with perfect security.So the implementation of OKD between the satellite and the underwater vehicle is feasible.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （Grant No. 61205069）.
文摘Coupling plane wave into a single-mode fiber （SMF） with high and steady coupling efficiency is crucial for fiber- based free-space laser systems, where random angular jitters are the main influencing factors of fiber coupling. In this paper, we verified a new adaptive-optic device named adaptive fiber coupler （AFC） which could compensate angular jitters and improve the SMF coupling efficiency in some degree. Experiments of SMF coupling under the angular jitter situation using AFC have been achieved. Stochastic parallel gradient descent （SPGD） algorithm is employed as the control strategy, of which the iteration rate is 625 Hz. In closed loop, the coupling efficiency keeps above 65% when angular errors are below 80/3tad. The compensation bandwidth is 35 Hz at sine-jitter of 15 ~rad amplitude with average coupling efficiency of above 60%. Also, experiments with simulated turbulence have been studied. The average coupling efficiency increases from 31.97% in open loop to 61.33% in closed loop, and mean square error （MSE） of coupling efficiency drops from 7.43% to 1.75%.
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province (No.F2008000116)
文摘A programmable transversal equalizer for electronic dispersion compensation(EDC) in optical fiber communication systems is developed.Based on the SiGe technology with a cut-off frequency of 80 GHz,the equalizer consists of 6 seriesparallel amplifiers as delay units and 7 Gilbert variable gain amplifiers as taps,which ensure that the equalizer can work at the bit rate of 10 Gb/s.With different tap gains,the forward voltage gain of the transversal equalizer varies,which demonstrates that the equalizer has various filtering characteristics such as low pass filtering,band pass filtering,band reject filtering,and notch filtering,so it can effectively simulate the inverse transfer function of dispersive channels in optical communications,and can be used for compensating the inter-symbol interference and other nonlinear problems caused by dispersion.The equalizer(including pads) occupies an area of 0.40 mm × 1.08 mm,and its total power dissipation is 400 mW with 3.3 V power supply.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60177027 and 60377015) and the National "863" Project of China (No. 2001AA122042).
文摘A 40-Gb/s optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) return-to-zero (RZ) transmission experiments including a dynamic polarization mode dispersion (PMD) compensation was reported. The dynamic PMD compensator is made up of two-stage four degrees of freedom (DOF). The first stage adopts polarization controller and fixed time-delayed line. The second stage is variable differential group delay (DGD) element. The PMD monitoring technique is based on degree of polarization (DOP) as error signal. A novel practical adaptive optimization algorithm was introduced in dynamic adaptive PMD compensation. The experimental results show that the performance of the PMD compensator is excellent for 40-Gb/s RZ transmission systems with the large DGD. With this compensator, a significant improvement of system performance can be achieved in the eye pattern of a received signal. The first-order compensating ability of the compensator is greater than 30 ps. The second-order compensating ability is greater than 200 ps2. The first-order optimum compensating time is within 10 ms. The second-order optimum compensating time is within 24 ms.
文摘Integrated diffractive optical mode converter, consisting of a diffractive optical element (DOE) and a slab waveguide, is used for fiber-to-waveguide coupling. The phase of the DOE is generally designed by optimization algorithm. In this paper, the precise design, a new method with one more restrictive way, is adopted to design the diffractive optical mode converter for fiber-to-waveguide coupling. Through this method, the intensity of any point on the output plane is fully filled with the required demand. Compared with what previously published, the coupling loss of the precise designed converter is lower.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Sci- ence Foundation of China under Grant No. 60377023.
文摘We present a modified method to design photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) with flattened dispersion char- acteristic. Using this modified PCF we design a broadband fiber optical parametric amplifier (FOPA), which provides a gain of 8 dB with 1.5-dB uniformity over a 260-nm bandwidth. Both the simulation results of total dispersion of PCF and the gain spectrum of FOPA are demonstrated.
基金This work was in part supported by the Trans-CenturyTraining Programme Foundation for the Talents by theMinistry of Education of China
文摘We propose a 1st and 2nd order polarization mode dispersion emulator （PMDE） with one variable differential group delay （DGD） clement using birefringence crystals and four polarization controllers （PCs）. Monte Carlo simulations demonstrate that the output 1st and 2nd order polarization mode dispersion （PMD） generated by the PMDE consists with statistic theory. Compared with former PMDEs, this design is tunable, lower-cost, and more integrated for fabrication, which shows response time of 150μs, response frequency of 3.8 kHz, working wavelength of 1550 nm, total power consumption of less than 3 W, working range of 0 84 ps and 0 3600 ps^2 for 1st and 2nd order PMD emulation, respectively. Also, it is programmable and can be controlled by either singlechip or computer. It can be applied to study the outage probability of optical communication systems due to PMD effect and the effectiveness of PMD compensation.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61225022and 61320106015)the National"973"Program of China(No.2013CB328802)the National"863"Program of China(Nos.2015AA015902 and 2012AA011901)
文摘In this Letter, we propose an optical attenuator based on the phase modulation of a spatial light modulator （SLM）. In this system, we use two polarized beam splitters （PBSs） to control the polarized light and one SLM to modulate the phase of the polarized light. In the initial state, the light beam is divided into p-light and s-light when it passes through the first PBS. When the light passes through the second PBS, s-light is reflected and p-light is detected by the CCD camera. By loading different grayscales on the SLM, p-light changes its polarized state to s-light. The light power can be attenuated during the loading process. Our experiment shows that the system can obtain a wide optical attenuation from 1-27.2 dB. When loading two grayscales, the SLM has a fast switching time of 25 ms under a low actuated voltage of 5.5 V. The response time of the optical attenuator depends on the switching time of the SLM. Therefore, the system can also have a fast response time. By using the method of spatial multiplexing and adding two mirrors in the system, it can also be extended into a 1 × 2 optical switch. The results verify its feasibility. The optical attenuator has wide applications in photonic signal processing and fiber-optic communication.
基金This work was supported by the "863" High-Technology Research and Development Program ofChina under Grant No. 2001AA120201
文摘A low cost 8×10-Gb/s transmission system over 1500 km on conventional fiber using chirped fiber Bragg grating （CFBG） as dispersion compensator is demonstrated. The bit error rate （BER） below 10^-10 at 1500 km is obtained. The channel spacing is 0.8 nm and the optical amplifier spacing is 100 km. Only 16 erbium-doped fiber amplifiers （EDFAs） are used.
文摘Taking into account the randomicity of collision positions and the arbitrary encoding of data in channel, the influences of different dispersion management on collision-induced timing jitter in a filtered wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) soliton system are obtained statistically and numerically by applying a set of coupled ordinary differential equations which are derived through variational procedure. The optimal dispersion managements which can greatly reduce the collision-induced timing jitter are found. The multi-channel collision-induced timing jitters in a filtered WDM soliton system are given with an optimal dispersion management and constant dispersion.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant NO. 60278003 and the National Key Basic Research Special Foundation of China under Grant No.G1999075201,
文摘A Galerkin's method-based numerical procedure is extended to obtain the modal field distribution of multicore photonic crystal fibers for the first time to our knowledge, which can reveal how the air hole size influences the mode coupling and how the coupling strength varies with wavelength. These results will be helpful in the future design of multicore photonic crystal fibers with proper guidance properties.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.69903001)863 Project of China(2001AA122042)Pandeng Foundation of Northern Jiaotong University
文摘Experiment was conducted to study Gaussian pulse transmission over ultra-high PMD fiber. Gaussian pulse is broken into a series of deformed pulses when it transmits over ultra-high PMD fiber. It is indicated that the walk-off deformed pulses were caused by ultra-high PMD. Transmitted experiment has been done using fiber with PMD coefficient 237.95ps/km1/2. The result of the experiment is consistent with the simulated one.
基金supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(No.2011AA7014061)
文摘Considering the air-water interface and ocean water’s optical attenuation,the performance of quantum key distribution(QKD)based on air-water channel is studied.The effects of photons’various incident angles to air-water interface on quantum bit error rate(QBER)and the maximum secure transmission distance are analyzed.Taking the optical attenuation of ocean water into account,the performance bounds of QKD in different types of ocean water are discussed.The simulation results show that the maximum secure transmission distance of QKD gradually reduces as the incident angle from air to ocean water increases.In the clearest ocean water with the lowest attenuation,the maximum secure transmission distance of photons far exceeds the the working depth of underwater vehicles.In intermediate and murky ocean waters with higher attenuation,the secure transmission distance shortens,but the underwater vehicle can deploy other accessorial methods for QKD with perfect security.So the implementation of OKD between the satellite and the underwater vehicle is feasible.
