Reflection-type coherent optical communication system combined with unidirectional optical signal amplification

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10944483-B2
Application number	US-202016925340-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 10, 2020
Priority date	Jul 10, 2019
Publication date	Mar 9, 2021
Grant date	Mar 9, 2021

Abstract

A reflection-type coherent optical communication system combined with unidirectional optical signal amplification, comprises a polarization controller, a polarization beam splitter, a polarization maintaining optical circulator, an In-line polarizer, an optical modulator, a photoelectric converter, an electrical comparator, an optical amplifier, a laser, a coupler, a reflection end and a coherent receiver. A light source is disposed at a receiving end, and the laser emits an optical carrier. The optical carrier is transmitted through the coupler and an optical fiber. Thereafter, the polarization state of the optical carrier is controlled by two ways, the optical carrier passes through the polarization controller in a first way, and two beams of light are output by the polarization beam splitter. A beam of light with high-power is modulated through a first branch, and the modulation signal is returned along an original optical path.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A reflection-type coherent optical communication system combined with unidirectional optical signal amplification, comprising a transmitting end, wherein
the transmitting end comprises (i) a polarization controller, a polarization beam splitter, a polarization maintaining optical circulator, an optical modulator, a photoelectric converter, an electrical comparator, and an optical amplifier, a laser, a coupler, a reflection end and a coherent receiver, or (ii) a polarization maintaining optical circulator, an optical modulator, an In-line polarizer and an optical amplifier, a laser, a coupler, a reflection end and a coherent receiver, wherein
the laser is disposed at a receiving end, a light source is disposed at the receiving end, the laser emits an optical carrier, the optical carrier is transmitted through the coupler and the optical fiber, and then, after the optical carrier and a modulation signal transmitted in opposite directions are separated through the optical amplifier, the polarization state of the optical carrier is controlled by two ways, the optical carrier passes through the polarization controller in a first way of the two ways, and two beams of light are output by the polarization beam splitter;
a beam of light of the two beams of light with high-power enters a second port of the polarization maintaining optical circulator through a first branch, output from a third port of the polarization maintaining optical circulator and then enters the optical modulator, and the modulation signal output by the optical modulator is returned to a first port of the polarization maintaining optical circulator, then output from the second port of the polarization maintaining optical circulator and returned along an original optical path;
light output from the polarization beam splitter passes through the photoelectric converter and the electrical comparator in sequence through a second branch to realize a feedback control of the polarization controller, alternatively, in a second way of the two ways, the polarization state of the optical carrier is controlled by the In-line polarizer, and then modulated by the polarization maintaining optical circulator and returned along the original optical path, and in a return process, the modulation signal is amplified through the optical amplifier and returned to the receiving end; and
light returned by a third port of the coupler as local oscillator light and the modulation signal reflected back from the reflection end enter the coherent receiver for coherent demodulation.

2. The reflection-type coherent optical communication system combined with the unidirectional optical signal amplification according to claim 1 , wherein,
the optical amplifier comprises two circulators and an erbium-doped optical fiber amplifier, the two circulators are the same and both are three-port circulators, the two circulators are recorded as a first circulator and a second circulator, the two three-port circulators are configured to separate the optical carrier and the modulation signal transmitted in opposite directions, and the erbium-doped optical fiber amplifier is configured to amplify the modulation signal reflected back;
the optical carrier passes through the coupler and then enters a second port of the first circulator, output from a third port of the first circulator and transmitted into a first port of the second circulator, and then output from a second port of the second circulator; and
the modulation signal reversed by the polarization controller and/or the In-line polarizer enters from the second port of the second circulator, is output from a third port of the second circulator, is amplified through the optical amplifier and then enters a first port of the first circulator, and then is output and returned from the second port of the first circulator.

3. The reflection-type coherent optical communication system combined with the unidirectional optical signal amplification according to claim 1 , wherein, the light source comprises carrier light and local oscillator light, and the carrier light and the local oscillator light are the same laser source.

4. The reflection-type coherent optical communication system combined with the unidirectional optical signal amplification according to claim 1 , further comprising a DSP module, wherein
the modulation signal after passing through the coherent receiver enters the DSP module, and is compensated for frequency offset and dispersion by the DSP module to complete demodulation.

5. The reflection-type coherent optical communication system combined with the unidirectional optical signal amplification according to claim 1 , wherein, the optical modulator is a lithium niobate phase modulator.

Assignees

• Univ Electronic Sci & Tech China

Inventors

• Chen Shuqiang
• Jin Shiwen
• Jiang Yuanyuan
• Yan Miao

Classifications

• H04B10/6151

  comprising a polarization controller at the receiver's input stage · CPC title

• H04B10/505 Primary

  using external modulation · CPC title

• H04B10/2589

  Bidirectional transmission · CPC title

• H04B10/6162

  Compensation of polarization related effects, e.g., PMD, PDL · CPC title

• H04B10/616

  Details of the electronic signal processing in coherent optical receivers · CPC title