Light receiving device and light receiving method
A light receiving device includes: a converter digitalizing an analog signal with a given sampling clock frequency, the analog signal being obtained through a photoelectric conversion of a received optical signal; a plurality of fixed distortion compensators compensating an output signal of the converter for waveform distortion with a fixed compensation amount that is different from each other; a plurality of phase shift detector circuits detecting a sampling phase shift from an output signal of the plurality of the fixed distortion compensators; a phase-adjusting-amount determiner determining a sampling phase adjusting amount with use of an output signal of the plurality of the phase shift detector circuits; and a phase adjusting circuit reducing a phase difference between the sampling clock frequency and the received optical signal based on a determination result of the phase-adjusting-amount determiner.
1. A light receiving device comprising:
a 90 degrees hybrid circuit to receive an optical signal fed into the light receiving device and a local oscillation optical signal and to mix the optical signal and the local oscillation optical signal per two polarized waves at right angles to each other, and to output an optical signal of a real part and an imaginary part of polarized waves;
a plurality of photoelectric conversion circuits to respectively receive optical signals of the real part and the imaginary part of two polarized waves at right angles to each other output from the 90 degrees hybrid circuit and to convert the optical signals into a plurality of electrical signals;
a plurality of converters to respectively digitalize the plurality of the electrical signals with a given sampling clock frequency;
a plurality of fixed distortion compensators to compensate an output signal of each converter for waveform distortion with a fixed compensation amount that is different from each other;
a plurality of phase shift detector circuits to detect a sampling phase shift from an output signal of the plurality of the fixed distortion compensators;
a phase-adjusting-amount determiner to determine a sampling phase adjusting amount with use of an output signal of the plurality of the phase shift detector circuits; and
a phase adjusting circuit to reduce a phase difference between the sampling clock frequency and the received optical signal based on a determination result of the phase-adjusting-amount determiner.
2. The light receiving device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the fixed distortion compensator compensates for chromatic dispersion as the wavelength distortion compensation.
3. The light receiving device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the phase adjusting circuit includes a digital phase adjusting circuit adjusting a phase of an output signal of the converter.
4. The light receiving device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the phase adjusting circuit includes a corrector correcting a sampling clock frequency of the converter.
5. A light receiving method comprising:
receiving by a 90 degrees hybrid circuit an optical signal fed into a light receiving device and a local oscillation optical signal, and mixing the optical signal and the local oscillation optical signal per two polarized waves at right angles to each other, and outputting an optical signal of a real part and an imaginary part of polarized waves;
receiving by a plurality of photoelectric conversion circuits optical signals of the real part and the imaginary part of two polarized waves at right angles to each other output from the 90 degrees hybrid circuit and to converting the optical signals into a plurality of electrical signals;
digitalizing the plurality of electrical signals with a given sampling clock frequency;
compensating each output signal obtained in the digitalizing for waveform distortion with a fixed compensation amount that is different for the each output signal;
detecting a sampling phase shift from each output signal obtained in the compensating;
determining a sampling phase adjusting amount with use of an output signal obtained in the detecting; and
reducing a phase difference between the sampling clock frequency and the received optical signal based on a determination result of the determining.