[HTML][HTML] High-order coherent communications using mode-locked dark-pulse Kerr combs from microresonators

A Fülöp, M Mazur, A Lorences-Riesgo… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Microresonator frequency combs harness the nonlinear Kerr effect in an integrated optical
cavity to generate a multitude of phase-locked frequency lines. The line spacing can reach …

Performance enhancement of free-space optical communications under atmospheric turbulence using modes diversity coherent receipt

D Zheng, Y Li, H Zhou, Y Bian, C Yang, W Li, J Qiu… - Optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
This paper numerically and experimentally investigates the performance of free-space
optical receiver using modes diversity coherent receipt under moderate-to-strong …

Impact of I/Q Amplitude Imbalance on Coherent -OTDR

Y Fu, N Xue, Z Wang, B Zhang, J Xiong… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, the quadrature amplitude imbalance which may consist in I/Q demodulated
phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry (-OTDR) is analyzed, which may happen …

Characterization and compensation of phase offset in Φ-OTDR with heterodyne detection

N Xue, Y Fu, C Lu, J Xiong, L Yang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Characterizing and real-time compensating the time-skew and phase-mismatch of the in-
phase and quadrature (I/Q) signals, for phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry (Φ …

Technology requirements for an Alamouti-coded 100 Gb/s digital coherent receiver using 3× 3 couplers for passive optical networks

MS Faruk, DJ Ives, SJ Savory - IEEE Photonics Journal, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Digital coherent receivers employing Alamouti-coding are a promising solution for passive
optical networks (PON) with downstream rates of 100 Gb/s/λ. To reduce the cost by utilizing …

Low-complexity and modulation-format-independent carrier phase estimation scheme using linear approximation for elastic optical networks

T Yang, X Chen, S Shi, E Sun, C Shi - Optics Communications, 2018 - Elsevier
We propose a low-complexity and modulation-format-independent carrier phase estimation
(CPE) scheme based on two-stage modified blind phase search (MBPS) with linear …

A 0–40 GHz RF tunable receiver based on photonic direct conversion and digital feed-forward lasers noise cancellation

D Onori, P Ghelfi, J Azaña… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the architecture of a compact, robust, and broadly tunable RF receiver
based on photonic direct conversion and digital feed-forward lasers noise cancellation. In …

SOA‐based AOWC of 128QAM using Gaussian pulse shaping for transmission system with 227 Gbps

G Li, J Li, G Chen, X Huang - Microwave and Optical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We demonstrate an ultra‐high‐speed transmission system‐based, all‐optical wavelength
conversion using Gaussian pulse shaping and 128 quadrature amplitude modulation. In this …

Detection and compensation of power imbalance, modulation strength, and bias drift in coherent IQ transmitter through digital filter

Q Wang, Y Yue, J Anderson - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
A novel method to simultaneously detect power imbalance, modulation strength, and bias
drift of coherent IQ transmitter during the initial power-up is presented. This is achieved by …

Effect of low over-sampling rate on a 64Gbaud/DP-16QAM 100-km optical link

WJ Jiang, KG Kuzmin, WI Way - IEEE photonics technology …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We experimentally demonstrated a one-span 100-km transmission of 64Gbaud/DP-16QAM
signal using a state-of-the-art InP-based coherent transmitter and receiver, a 1 …