Modeling and compensation of nonlinear distortion in direct-detection optical Fast-OFDM systems

Fast-OFDM based intensity-modulation and direct-detection (IM/DD) has been proposed for the deployment of cost-efficient optical access networks, due to simple implementation and high spectral efficiency. In this work, the generalized memory polynomial (GMP) is firstly applied to model the nonlinear characteristic of IM/DD Fast-OFDM links, including memory effects. After model validation using measured data of a 10 km single mode fiber link, the GMP is used for performance investigations of a combined clipping and digital post-distortion approach to optical Fast-OFDM, considering both 4PAM and 8PAM modulation formats and different number of Fast-OFDM subcarriers. This work firstly reports performance results of optical 8PAM-Fast-OFDM systems using 2PAM-based training signals for digital post-distortion and FFT-based channel estimation. Excellent performance improvements are achieved using the proposed distortion compensation scheme, relative to conventional system implementation

包絡線パルス幅変調によるOFDM信号の光ファイバ無線伝送に関する研究

In this thesis, an Envelop Pulse-Width Modulation-RoF (EPWM-RoF) transmission scheme is proposed to solve the RoF nonlinearity and echo effect issues. Through the theoretical analysis, simulation and experimental results, it can be concluded that EPWM-RoF transmission is effective in dealing with E/O nonlinearity and echo effect in RoF channel.電気通信大学201

Visible Light Communication (VLC)

Visible light communication (VLC) using light-emitting diodes (LEDs) or laser diodes (LDs) has been envisioned as one of the key enabling technologies for 6G and Internet of Things (IoT) systems, owing to its appealing advantages, including abundant and unregulated spectrum resources, no electromagnetic interference (EMI) radiation and high security. However, despite its many advantages, VLC faces several technical challenges, such as the limited bandwidth and severe nonlinearity of opto-electronic devices, link blockage and user mobility. Therefore, significant efforts are needed from the global VLC community to develop VLC technology further. This Special Issue, “Visible Light Communication (VLC)”, provides an opportunity for global researchers to share their new ideas and cutting-edge techniques to address the above-mentioned challenges. The 16 papers published in this Special Issue represent the fascinating progress of VLC in various contexts, including general indoor and underwater scenarios, and the emerging application of machine learning/artificial intelligence (ML/AI) techniques in VLC

Digital electronic predistortion for optical communications

The distortion of optical signals has long been an issue limiting the performance of communication systems. With the increase of transmission speeds the effects of distortion are becoming more prominent. Because of this, the use of methods known from digital signal processing (DSP) are being introduced to compensate for them. Applying DSP to improve optical signals has been limited by a discrepancy in digital signal processing speeds and optical transmission speeds. However high speed Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) which are sufficiently fast have now become available making DSP experiments without costly ASIC implementation possible for optical transmission experiments. This thesis focuses on Look Up Table (LUT) based digital Electronic Predistortion (EPD) for optical transmission. Because it is only one out of many possible implementations of EPD, it has to be placed in context with other EPD techniques and other distortion combating techniques in general, especially since it is possible to combine the different techniques. Building an actual transmitter means that compromises and decisions have to be made in the design and implementation of an EPD based system. These are based on balancing the desire to achieve optimal performance with technological and economic limitations. This is partly done using optical simulations to asses the performance. This thesis describes a novel experimental transmitter that has been built as part of this research applying LUT based EPD to an optical signal. The experimental transmitter consists of a digital design (using a hardware description language) for a pair of FPGAs and an analogue optical/electronic setup including two standard DAC integrated circuits. The DSP in the transmitter compensated for both chromatic dispersion and self phase modulation. We achieved transmission of 10.7 Gb/s non-return-to-zero (NRZ) signals with a +4 dBm launch power over 450 km keeping the required optical-signal-to-noise-ratio (OSNR) for a bit-error-rate of 2x10^{-3} below 11 dB. In doing so we showed experimentally, for the first time, that nonlinear effects can be compensated with this approach and that the combination of FPGA-DAC is a viable approach for an experimental setup

Over-the-fiber Digital Predistortion Using Reinforcement Learning

We demonstrate, for the first time, experimental over-the-fiber training of transmitter neural networks (NNs) using reinforcement learning. Optical back-to-back training of a novel NN-based digital predistorter outperforms arcsine-based predistortion with up to 60\% bit-error-rate reduction

Techniques en appui des formats de modulation avancés pour les futurs réseaux optiques

Les systèmes de communication optique avec des formats de modulation avancés sont actuellement l’un des sujets de recherche les plus importants dans le domaine de communication optique. Cette recherche est stimulée par les exigences pour des débits de transmission de donnée plus élevés. Dans cette thèse, on examinera les techniques efficaces pour la modulation avancée avec une détection cohérente, et multiplexage par répartition en fréquence orthogonale (OFDM) et multiples tonalités discrètes (DMT) pour la détection directe et la détection cohérente afin d’améliorer la performance de réseaux optiques. Dans la première partie, nous examinons la rétropropagation avec filtre numérique (DFBP) comme une simple technique d’atténuation de nonlinéarité d’amplificateur optique semiconducteur (SOA) dans le système de détection cohérente. Pour la première fois, nous démontrons expérimentalement l’efficacité de DFBP pour compenser les nonlinéarités générées par SOA dans un système de détection cohérente porteur unique 16-QAM. Nous comparons la performance de DFBP avec la méthode de Runge-Kutta quatrième ordre. Nous examinons la sensibilité de performance de DFBP par rapport à ses paramètres. Par la suite, nous proposons une nouvelle méthode d’estimation de paramètre pour DFBP. Finalement, nous démontrons la transmission de signaux de 16-QAM aux taux de 22 Gbaud sur 80km de fibre optique avec la technique d’estimation de paramètre proposée pour DFBP. Dans la deuxième partie, nous nous concentrons sur les techniques afin d’améliorer la performance des systèmes OFDM optiques en examinent OFDM optiques cohérente (CO-OFDM) ainsi que OFDM optiques détection directe (DDO-OFDM). Premièrement, nous proposons une combinaison de coupure et prédistorsion pour compenser les distorsions nonlinéaires d’émetteur de CO-OFDM. Nous utilisons une interpolation linéaire par morceaux (PLI) pour charactériser la nonlinéarité d’émetteur. Dans l’émetteur nous utilisons l’inverse de l’estimation de PLI pour compenser les nonlinéarités induites à l’émetteur de CO-OFDM. Deuxièmement, nous concevons des constellations irrégulières optimisées pour les systèmes DDO-OFDM courte distance en considérant deux modèles de bruit de canal. Nous démontrons expérimentalement 100Gb/s+ OFDM/DMT avec la détection directe en utilisant les constellations QAM optimisées. Dans la troisième partie, nous proposons une architecture réseaux optiques passifs (PON) avec DDO-OFDM pour la liaison descendante et CO-OFDM pour la liaison montante. Nous examinons deux scénarios pour l’allocations de fréquence et le format de modulation des signaux. Nous identifions la détérioration limitante principale du PON bidirectionnelle et offrons des solutions pour minimiser ses effets.Optical communication systems with advanced modulation formats are currently one of the major research focuses of the optical communication community. This research is driven by the ever-increasing demand for higher data transmission rates. In this thesis, we investigate efficient techniques for advanced modulation with coherent detection, and optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) and discrete multi-tone (DMT) for both direct detection and coherent detection to improve the performance of optical networks. In the first part, we investigate digital filter back-propagation (DFBP) as a simple semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) nonlinearity mitigation technique in coherent detection systems. For the first time, we experimentally demonstrate effectiveness of DFBP in compensating for SOA-induced nonlinearities in a 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (16-QAM) singlecarrier coherent detection system. We compare performance of DFBP with Runge-Kutta fourth-order method. We examine sensitivity of DFBP performance to its parameters. Afterwards, we propose a novel parameter estimation method for DFBP. Finally, we demonstrate successful transmission of 22 Gbaud 16-QAM signals over 80 km fiber with the proposed parameter estimation technique for DFBP. In the second part, we concentrate on techniques to improve performance of optical OFDM systems, examining both coherent optical OFDM (CO-OFDM) and direct-detection optical OFDM (DDO-OFDM). First, we propose a combination of clipping and predistortion technique to compensate for CO-OFDM transmitter nonlinear distortions. We use piecewise linear interpolation (PLI) for characterizing the transmitter nonlinearity. At the transmitter, we use inverse of the PLI estimate to pre-compensate the nonlinearities induced at the COOFDM transmitter. Second, we design optimized non-square constellations for short-reach DDO-OFDM systems based on two channel noise models. We experimentally demonstrate 100 Gb/s+ OFDM/DMT with direct detection using the optimized QAM constellations. In the third part, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a passive optical network (PON) architecture with DDO-OFDM for the downlink and CO-OFDM for the uplink. We examine two scenarios for the occupied frequency and modulation format of the signals. We identify main limiting impairments of the bidirectional PON and provide solutions to minimize their effects

Enabling Technologies for Distribution of Broadband Radio over Fiber

RÉSUMÉ La radio sur fibre (RoF) a été considérée comme une technologie prometteuse qui concurrencera de manière indisputable comme solution viable pour la distribution des systèmes de communication sans fil à bande large actuels et futurs. La technologie RoF emploie la modulation d'onde sous-porteuse (SCM) pour moduler la lumière par un signal RF, qui à son tour sera transmise par la fibre. Malheureusement, la transmission du signal RF sur la fibre est sujette à un certain nombre de défauts. Ces défauts incluent le faible rendement de la conversion optique en électrique, à la dispersion chromatique de la fibre, et à la non-linéarité de l’émetteur optique. L'objectif de cette thèse est de développer des technologies de pointe pour la radio sur fibre à large bande. Les conceptions proposées devraient adresser la déformation non linéaire induite par l'émetteur optique, combattre le problème de l’affaiblissement de la puissance optique induit par la dispersion chromatique de la fibre, et améliorer l'efficacité de modulation optique au petit signal sans augmenter de manière significative le cout et la complexité du système RoF. Pour le signal RF à large bande, nous considérons le signal à bande ultra large utilisant le multiplexage par répartition orthogonale de la fréquence (ULB MB-MROF), qui a été proposé comme solution pour le réseau de secteur personnel sans fil d’IEEE 802.15.3a (WPAN). D'abord, la performance de la transmission de l'ULB MB-MROF par la fibre est étudiée en considérant l'impact de modulation et démodulation optique. L'analyse théorique de l'effet de la dispersion de la fibre, de la réponse de l'émetteur optique et du récepteur optique sur la performance du système est effectuée en considérant la distorsion de la phase et de l'amplitude. Des expériences sont réalisées pour vérifier notre analyse théorique et une bonne concordance est obtenue. Il est constaté que l'index de modulation RF de ~4% est optimum pour l'émetteur optique avec le modulateur de Mach-Zehnder, et le récepteur optique avec la réponse de Tchebychev-II est le meilleur pour l'ULB MB-MROF sur fibre. Aussi, la performance de la transmission sans fil est limitée par la sensibilité du récepteur ULB MB-MROF. Il est aussi trouvé qu’une haute puissance optique reçue est exigée pour la transmission du signal de l'ULB MB-MROF sur fibre.----------ABSTRACT Radio over fiber (RoF) has been considered as a very promising technology that will indisputably compete as a viable solution for the distribution of current and future broadband wireless communication systems such as IEEE 802.15.3a WPAN using Multiband-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Ultra-Wideband (MB-OFDM UWB) signal. The RoF technology makes use of subcarrier modulation (SCM) to modulate an RF signal on light, which in turn will be transmitted by optical fiber. Unfortunately, the transmission of RF signal over fiber is subject to a number of impairments. These impairments include: low optical to electrical conversion efficiency, fiber chromatic dispersion, and nonlinearity of the optical front end, etc.. The objective of this thesis is to develop enabling technologies for broadband RoF systems. The proposed design platforms and techniques should address nonlinear distortion induced by the optical transmitter; combat optical power fading issue induced by the chromatic dispersion; and improve modulation efficiency of the optical small-signal modulation without significantly adding excessive expense and complexity to the RoF system. First of all, the performance of MB-OFDM UWB wireless over fiber transmission system is investigated considering optical modulation and demodulation aspects. Theoretical analysis of the effects of fiber chromatic dispersion, relative intensity noise (RIN), optical transmitter and optical receiver response on system performance is carried out considering amplitude and phase distortion. Experiments are conducted, which have verified our theoretical analysis and a good agreement is obtained. It is found that low RF modulation index (4%) for optical transmitter with Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM), and optical receiver with Chebyshev-II response is the best for MB-OFDM UWB over fiber. The wireless transmission performance is limited by the UWB receiver sensitivity. Moreover, a high received optical power is required for transmission of MB-OFDM UWB signal over fiber. It is also found that the parameters like laser output power, laser linewidth and fiber dispersion that control RIN, will critically affect the overall performance of a UWB over fiber system

Nonlinear impairments and mitigation technologies for the next generation fiber-wireless mobile fronthaul networks

The proliferation of Internet-connected mobile devices and video-intensive services are driving the growth of mobile data traffic in an explosive way. The last mile of access networks, mobile fronthaul (MFH) networks, have become the data rate bottleneck of user experience. The objective of this research are two-fold. For analog MFH, nonlinear interferences among multiple bands of mobile signals in a multi-RAT multi-service radio-over-fiber (RoF)-based MFH system are investigated for the first time. The nonlinear impairments of both single-carrier and multi-carrier signals are investigated, and it is experimentally demonstrated that inter-channel interferences play a more important role in the performance degradation of analog MFH than the nonlinear distortions of each individual signal. A digital predistortion technique was also presented to linearize the analog MFH links. On the other hand, for digital MFH, we experimentally demonstrate a novel digitization interface based on delta-sigma modulation to replace the state-of-the-art common public radio interface (CPRI). Compared with CPRI, it provides improved spectral efficiency and enhanced fronthaul capacity, and can accommodate both 4G-LTE and 5G mobile services.Ph.D