Broadband Dispersion-Induced Power Fading Compensation in Long-Haul Analog Optical Link Based on 2-Ch Phase Modulator

Author

Niu, Jian ; Xu, Kun ; Zhang, Anxu ; Dai, Yitang ; Ji, Yuefeng ; Lin, Jintong

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Inf. Photonics & Opt. Commun., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China

Volume

4

Issue

2

fYear

2012

fDate

4/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

476

Lastpage

482

Abstract

A broadband dispersion compensation scheme based on a 2-Ch phase modulator (2-Ch PM) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated in the long-haul analog optical link. Benefiting from the complementary power fading function for the phase and intensity modulated link, which are simultaneously obtained by using the 2-Ch PM, the broadband and long-reach dispersion compensation is implemented. The experimental results show that the dispersion-induced power fading is greatly mitigated for the radio frequency (RF) signal with a bandwidth up to 18 GHz over 24.45-km single-mode fiber (SMF) transmission. Meanwhile, the system spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) is improved with a maximum value of 24 at the frequency of 17.5 GHz; the vector signal transmission performance has also been improved.

Keywords

optical dispersion; optical links; optical modulation; phase modulation; 2-Ch phase modulator; broadband dispersion-induced power fading compensation; complementary power fading function; frequency 17.5 GHz; frequency 18 GHz; long-haul analog optical link; radio frequency signal; single-mode fiber transmission; spurious-free dynamic range; vector signal transmission performance; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical polarization; Phase modulation; Microwave photonics; analog optical link; dispersion compensation; spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Journal, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1943-0655

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2190979

Filename

6169941