Advanced modulation formats for underwater visible light communications [Invited]

In this paper, we present a detailed comparison of applying three advanced modulation formats including carrierless amplitude and phase modulation(CAP), orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM), and discrete Fourier transform spread orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(DFT-S OFDM) in underwater visible light communication(UVLC) systems. Cascaded post-equalization schemes are suggested to compensate the system impairments. For the first time, a two-level post-equalizer is presented to mitigate the nonlinear effect and improve the system performance of UVLC. The first post-equalization is based on a novel recursive least square Volterra. These modulation formats are all experimentally demonstrated with corresponding digital signal processing(DSP) algorithms. The experimental results show that single carrier modulations including CAP and DFT-S OFDM can outperform OFDM. Our experiment results show that up to 3 Gb/s over a 1.2 m underwater visible light transmission can be achieved by using DFT-S OFDM 64 QAM and CAP-64. The measured bit error rate is well under the hard decision-forward error correction(HD-FEC) threshold of 3.8 × 10^(-3).

100G Transport Systems: Technology Bench-Mark Testing in China and Evolution to Terabit/s Interfaces

To meet the exponentially growing demand fbr bandwidth in Optical Transport Networks （OTNs）, 100-Gb/s （100G） coherent technology based oil Polarization-Division Multiplexed Quadrature Phase Shift Keying （PDM-QPSK）, which enables the capacity of a Wavelength Division Multiplexing （WDM） system to approach 10 Tb/s, is being widely deployed globally. As the first vendor to intro- duce a single-carrier 100G solution, A1- catel-Lucent has developed key transponder and network management technologies, which are reviewed in this paper together with their commercial evolution to 400G. Focusing on the Chinese market, we also review some key bench-mark testing results obtained in partner- ship with major Chinese operators. Finally, we discuss enabling technologies that are currently being researched to allow interfaces to scale to Terabit/s rates.

Impairments Approximations in Assembled mmWave and Radio Over Fiber Network

The fiber nonlinearity and phase noise(PN)are the focused impairments in the optical communication system,induced by high-capacity transmission and high laser input power.The channels include high-capacity transmissions that cannot be achieved at the end side without aliasing because of fiber nonlinearity and PN impairments.Thus,addressing of these distortions is the basic objective for the 5G mobile network.In this paper,the fiber nonlinearity and PN are investigated using the assembled methodology of millimeter-wave and radio over fiber(mmWave-RoF).The analytical model is designed in terms of outage probability for the proposed mmWave-RoF system.The performance of mmWave-RoF against fiber nonlinearity and PN is studied for input power,output power and length using peak to average power ratio(PAPR)and bit error rate(BER)measuring parameters.The simulation outcomes present that the impacts of fiber nonlinearity and PNcan be balanced for a huge capacity mmWave-RoF model applying input power carefully.

Adaptive and Intelligent Digital Signal Processing for Improved Optical Interconnection

In recent years, explosively increasing data traffic has been boosting the con?tinuous demand of high speed optical interconnection inside or among data centers, high performance computers and even consumer electronics. To pursue the improved intercon?nection performance of capacity, energy efficiency and simplicity, effective approaches are demonstrated including particularly advanced digital signal processing (DSP) meth?ods. In this paper, we present a review about the enabling adaptive DSP methods for opti?cal interconnection applications, and a detailed summary of our recent and ongoing works in this field. In brief, our works focus on dealing with the specific issues for short-reach interconnection scenarios with adaptive operation, including signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) limitation, level nonlinearity distortion, energy efficiency consideration and the de?cision precision.

A simple experimental scheme for M-QAM optical signals generation

A simple scheme to generate optical quad- rature amplitude modulation （QAM） signals is proposed based on different types of delay interferometers （Dis）. The simulated results show that 16QAM, 64QAM and 256 QAM optical signals can be generated by 2×2, 3 ×3 and 4×4 DI, respectively, and the outputs of the proposed scheme are similar to those of the conventional schemes. The operation principle is discussed and the transmission properties of the square 16QAM as well as 64QAM signals are analyzed and compared with common approach.