Digital subcarrier multiplexing-enabled carrier-free phase-retrieval receiver

The carrier-free phase-retrieval(CF-PR)receiver can reconstruct the optical field information only from two de-correlated intensity measurements without the involvement of a continuous-wave optical carrier.Here,we propose a digital subcarrier multiplexing(DSM)-enabled CF-PR receiver with hardware-efficient and modulation format-transparent merits.By numerically retrieving the optical field information of 56 GBaud DSM signals with QPSK/16QAM/32QAM modulation after 80-km standard single-mode fiber(SSMF)transmission,we identify that the DSM enabled CF-PR receiver is beneficial in reducing the implementation complexity of the CF-PR process,in comparison with the traditional single-carrier counterpart,because the lower symbol rate of each subcarrier is helpful in reducing the implementation complexity of multiple chromatic dispersion compensations and emulations during the PR iteration.Moreover,the DSM-enabled CF-PR receiver is verified to be robust toward various transmission imperfections,including transmitter-side laser linewidth and its wavelength drift,receiver-side time skew,and amplitude imbalance between two intensity tributaries.Finally,the superiority of the DSM-enabled CF-PR receiver is experimentally verified by recovering the optical field information of 25 GBaud 16QAM signals,after 40-km SSMF transmission for the first time.Thus,the DSM-enabled CF-PR receiver is promising for high-capacity photonic interconnection with direct detection.

Data Acquisition System for Electron Energy Loss Coincident Spectrometers

A Data Acquisition System （DAQ） for electron energy loss coincident spectrometers （EELCS） has been developed. The system is composed of a Multiplex Time-Digital Converter （TDC） that measures the flying time of positive and negative ions and a one-dimension positionsensitive detector that records the energy loss of scattering electrons. The experimental data are buffered in a first-in-first-out（FIFO） memory module, then transferred from the FIFO memory to PC by the USB interface. The DAQ system can record the flying time of several ions in one collision, and allows of different data collection modes. The system has been demonstrated at the Electron Energy Loss Coincident Spectrometers at the Laboratory of Atomic and Molecular Physics, USTC. A detail description of the whole system is given and experimental results shown.