Compensation of Laser Phase Noise Using DSP in Multichannel Fiber-Optic Communications
Doctoral thesis, 2020
The proposed phase-noise model and algorithms are validated using experimental data based on uncoded space-division multiplexed transmission through a weakly-coupled, homogeneous, single-mode, 3-core fiber. It is found that the performance improvements predicted by simulations based on the model are reasonably close to the experimental results. Moreover, joint-channel processing is found to increase the maximum tolerable transmission distance by up to 10% for practical pilot rates.
Various phenomena decorrelate the laser phase noise between channels in multichannel transmission, reducing the potency of schemes that exploit this correlation. One such phenomenon is intercore skew, where the spatial channels experience different propagation velocities. The effect of intercore skew on the performance of joint-core phase-noise compensation is studied. Assuming that the channels are aligned in the receiver, joint-core processing is found to be beneficial in the presence of skew if the linewidth of the local oscillator is lower than the light-source laser linewidth.
In the case that the laser phase noise is completely uncorrelated across channels in multichannel transmission, it is shown that the system performance can be improved by applying transmitter-side multidimensional signal rotations. This is found by numerically optimizing rotations of four-dimensional signals that are transmitted through two channels. Structured four-dimensional rotations based on Hadamard matrices are found to be near-optimal. Moreover, in the case of high signal-to-noise ratios and high signal dimensionalities, Hadamard-based rotations are found to increase the achievable information rate by up to 0.25 bits per complex symbol for transmission of higher-order modulations.
multichannel transmission
rotations
digital signal processing
laser phase noise
Coherent fiber-optic communications
detection
estimation
Author
Arni Alfredsson
Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks
Iterative Detection and Phase-Noise Compensation for Coded Multichannel Optical Transmission
IEEE Transactions on Communications,;Vol. 67(2019)p. 5532-5543
Journal article
Pilot Distributions for Joint-Channel Carrier-Phase Estimation in Multichannel Optical Communications
Journal of Lightwave Technology,;Vol. 38(2020)p. 4656-4663
Journal article
Pilot-Aided Joint-Channel Carrier-Phase Estimation in Space-Division Multiplexed Multicore Fiber Transmission
Journal of Lightwave Technology,;Vol. 37(2019)p. 1133-1142
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On the Performance of Joint-Core Carrier-Phase Estimation in the Presence of Intercore Skew
Journal of Lightwave Technology,;Vol. 37(2019)p. 5291-5298
Journal article
Optimization of Transmitter-Side Signal Rotations in the Presence of Laser Phase Noise
Journal of Lightwave Technology,;Vol. 38(2020)p. 3850-3858
Journal article
The light that is used to carry the data between places is generated using lasers. In an ideal world, the lasers would be able to generate the light without any issues. However, lasers in the real world are not perfect and the light they generate does not have a stable phase. This phenomenon is called laser phase noise. Why is it a problem? Because the data that the light carries is represented by the amplitude and phase of the light. When the phase of the light is instable, it is hard to guess correctly at the receiving end which data was sent. Fortunately, we can compensate for the laser phase noise when we observe the light at the receiving end, which allows us to guess more easily which data was sent.
Fiber-optic communication systems typically contain many channels through which light can travel. This allows us to send many different light signals simultaneously, where each light signal carries different data. This is partly why fiber-optic systems can transfer so much data at once. The act of sending multiple light signals through many channels simultaneously is sometimes called multichannel transmission. This thesis is concerned with the compensation of laser phase noise in multichannel fiber-optic transmission. It turns out that we can compensate for laser phase noise in a powerful way by exploiting certain properties of multichannel fiber-optic systems. The interested reader is referred to page i of the thesis, which includes a more technical summary of the thesis contributions.
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Subject Categories
Telecommunications
Communication Systems
ISBN
978-91-7905-267-6
Doktorsavhandlingar vid Chalmers tekniska högskola. Ny serie: 4734
Publisher
Chalmers
Opponent: Stephan ten Brink