IP Library Granted Patent US 8,488,975
Granted Patent B2
US 8,488,975 · App. 12/911,395 · Granted Jul 16, 2013

Optical transmitter, optical transmitter and receiver system, optical transmitting method and optical transmitting and receiving method

Inventors: Shoichiro Oda (Kawasaki, JP); Takeshi Hoshida (Kawasaki, JP); Takahito Tanimura (Kawasaki, JP)
Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
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Patent No.
US 8,488,975
App. No.
12/911,395
Granted
Jul 16, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

An optical transmitter includes: a pre-compensator calculating an electrical field of an optical signal subjected to an electronic pre-compensation with respect to an input digital signal; a parallelizer parallelizing the electrical field of the optical signal calculated by the pre-compensator; a plurality of optical modulators modulating an optical signal based on each of parallelized electrical fields of optical signals; and a time-division multiplexer time-division-multiplexing an optical signal output from the plurality of the optical modulators.

Claims (24)

1. An optical transmitter comprising:

a pre-compensator calculating an electrical field of an optical signal subjected to an electronic pre-compensation with respect to an input digital signal;

a parallelizer parallelizing the electrical field of the optical signal calculated by the pre-compensator;

a plurality of optical modulators modulating an optical signal based on each of parallelized electrical fields of optical signals;

time-division multiplexer time-division-multiplexing an optical signal output from the plurality of the optical modulators and

a polarization rotator processing the input digital signal so that the optical signal modulated by the optical modulator is polarization-scrambled with a polarized wave rotation frequency fs/K, the fs being a symbol rate, the K being a number of separation of time-division-multiplex.

2. The optical transmitter as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the pre-compensator processes the input digital signal so that the optical signal modulated by the optical modulator is pre-equalized.

3. The optical transmitter as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the optical modulator is a polarization multiplexing modulator modulating each of orthogonal polarized-waveforms independently.

4. An optical transmitter and receiver system comprising:

an optical transmitter having a pre-compensator, a parallelizer, a plurality of optical modulators and a time-division multiplexer, the pre-compensator calculating an electrical field of an optical signal subjected to an electronic pre-compensation with respect to an input digital signal, the parallelizer parallelizing the electrical field of the optical signal calculated by the pre-compensator, the plurality of optical modulators modulating an optical signal based on each of parallelized optical signal electrical field, the time-division multiplexer time-division-multiplexing an optical signal output from the plurality of the optical modulators; and

an optical receiver having a waveform detector detecting a waveform with use of local oscillation light including a repeating pulse with respect to an optical signal input from the optical transmitter through a transmission link,

wherein a repeating frequency of the local oscillation light is the same as a polarization rotation frequency of an optical signal output from the optical transmitter.

5. The optical transmitter and receiver system as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the number of the waveform detector in the optical receiver is a constant value “K” when the polarization rotation frequency is a value obtained by dividing a frequency of the digital signal fed into the optical transmitter by the “K”.

6. The optical transmitter and receiver system as claimed in claim 5 , wherein each of the waveform detectors detects a waveform at timing different from each other by a symbol rate of the digital signal fed into the optical transmitter.

7. The optical transmitter and receiver system as claimed in claim 6 , wherein a value obtained by dividing the “K” by the number of the optical modulators is a multiple of 2 or a reciprocal of a multiple of 2.

8. An optical transmitting method comprising:

calculating an electrical field of an optical signal subjected to an electronic pre-compensation with respect to an input digital signal;

parallelizing the electrical field of the optical signal calculated by the calculating of the electrical field of the optical signal;

modulating an optical signal based on each of parallelized electrical fields of optical signals in each of optical modulators;

time-division-multiplexing an optical signal output from the optical modulators; and

processing the input digital signal so that the optical signal modulated by the optical modulator is polarization-scrambled with a polarized wave rotation frequency fs/K, the fs being a symbol rate, the K being a number of separation of time-division-multiplex.

9. An optical transmitting and receiving method comprising:

detecting a waveform with use of a local oscillation light including a repeating pulse with respect to an optical signal transmitted according to an optical transmitting method, the method comprising: calculating an electrical field of an optical signal subjected to an electronic pre-compensation with respect to an input digital signal; parallelizing the electrical field of the optical signal calculated by the calculating of the electrical field of the optical signal; modulating an optical signal based on each of parallelized electrical field of the optical signal in each of optical modulators; and time-division-multiplexing an optical signal output from the optical modulators,

wherein a repeating frequency of the local oscillation light is the same as a polarization rotation frequency of the optical signal transmitted according to the optical transmitting method.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 29, 2010
From: ODA, SHOICHIRO; HOSHIDA, TAKESHI; TANIMURA, TAKAHITO
To: FUJITSU LIMITED
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2009-247816 · Oct 28, 2009 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20110097085A1 · Apr 28, 2011