Digital coherent receiving apparatus
A digital coherent receiving apparatus includes a first oscillator for outputting a local light signal of a fixed frequency, a hybrid unit mixing the local light signal with a light signal received by a receiver, a second oscillator for outputting a sampling signal of a sampling frequency, a converter for converting the mixed light signal into digital signal synchronizing with the sampling signal, a waveform adjuster for adjusting a waveform distortion of the converted digital signal, a phase adjustor for adjusting a phase of the digital signal adjusted by the waveform adjustor, a demodulator for demodulating the digital signal adjusted by the phase adjuster, and a phase detector for detecting a phase of the digital signal adjusted by the phase adjuster, and a control signal output unit for outputting a frequency control signal on the basis of the detected phase signal to the second oscillator.
1. A digital coherent receiving apparatus, comprising:
a receiver configured to receive a light signal;
a first oscillator configured to output a local light signal;
a 90° optical hybrid circuit configured to mix the local light signal output from the first oscillator with the light signal received by the receiver;
a second oscillator configured to output a sampling signal of a sampling frequency, the second oscillator changing the sampling frequency in response to an input control signal;
a converter configured to convert the mixed light signal into a digital signal by sampling the mixed light signal with the sampling signal;
a waveform adjuster configured to adjust a waveform distortion of the digital signal converted by the converter;
a phase detector configured to detect a phase signal of the digital signal adjusted by the waveform adjuster;
a control signal output unit configured to output a control signal based on the detected phase signal to the second oscillator;
a phase adjuster configured to adjust a phase of the digital signal adjusted by the waveform adjuster; and
a demodulator configured to demodulate the digital signal adjusted by the phase adjuster,
wherein the phase detector includes:
a plurality of equalizing filters configured to respectively process and equalize the digital signal using different equalizing characteristics,
a plurality of detecting units configured to detect a plurality of candidate phases of the digital signal processed by each of the equalizing filters, and
a selector configured to select one of the detected candidate phases as the detected phase.
2. The digital coherent receiving apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the control signal output unit outputs a frequency control signal generated by converting the component of the detected phase into a frequency component.
3. The digital coherent receiving apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the control signal output unit includes:
a noise canceller for cancelling a noise in the phase detected by the phase detector, and
a generator for generating the control signal in reference to the phase after cancelling the noise by the noise canceller and for outputting the control signal to the second oscillator, and
the phase adjuster adjusts the phase of the digital signal on the basis of the phase after cancelling the noise by the phase detector.
4. The digital coherent receiving apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a noise canceller configured to cancel a noise in the phase detected by the phase detector; and
wherein the phase adjuster adjusts the phase of the digital signal based on the phase after cancelling the noise.
5. The digital coherent receiving apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the control signal output unit outputs a frequency control signal generated by converting the phase component of the detected phase into a frequency component.
6. A digital coherent receiving apparatus, comprising:
a receiver configured to receive a light signal;
a first oscillator configured to output a local light signal;
a 90° optical hybrid circuit configured to mix the local light signal output from the first oscillator with the light signal received by the receiver;
a second oscillator configured to output a sampling signal of a sampling frequency, the second oscillator changing the sampling frequency in response to an input control signal;
a converter configured to convert the mixed light signal into a digital signal by sampling the mixed light signal with the sampling signal;
a waveform adjuster configured to adjust a waveform distortion of the digital signal converted by the converter;
a phase detector configured to detect a phase signal of the digital signal adjusted by the waveform adjuster;
a control signal output unit configured to output a control signal based on the detected phase signal to the second oscillator;
a phase adjuster configured to adjust a phase of the digital signal adjusted by the waveform adjuster; and
a demodulator configured to demodulate the digital signal adjusted by the phase adjuster,
wherein the phase detector includes:
a plurality of equalizing filters configured to respectively process and equalize the digital signal using different equalizing characteristics,
a plurality of detecting units configured to detect a plurality of candidate phases of the digital signal processed by each of the equalizing filters,
a convertor for diversity converting the plurality of the candidate phases, and
a phase generator configured to generate the phase by combining the plurality of the candidate phases using a diversity combining method and for outputting the phase.