1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to an optical transmission system for analog signals, and in particular to a directly modulated solid-state laser. More particularly, the invention relates to the cancellation of phase modulated components arising from chirp in the semiconductor laser, which has its output distorted from its directly modulated input due to inherent non-linearity in the laser.
2. Description of the Related Art
Directly modulating the analog intensity of a light-emitting diode (LED) or semiconductor laser with an electrical signal is considered among the simplest methods known in the art for transmitting analog signals, such as voice and video signals, on optical fibers. Although such analog transmission techniques have the advantage of substantially smaller bandwidth requirements than digital transmission, such as digital pulse code modulation, or analog or pulse frequency modulation, the use of amplitude modulation may suffer from noise and nonlinearity of the optical source.
For that reason, direct modulation techniques have been used in connection with 1310 nm lasers where the application is to short transmission links that employ fiber optic links with zero dispersion. For applications in metro and long haul fiber transmission links, the group velocity dispersion of the link requires that externally modulated 1550 nm lasers be used, but such external modulation techniques are complex and expensive. The present invention is therefore addressed to the problem of providing a simple and low cost system for direct modulation of a laser at 1550 nm so that the analog optical output can be used in metro and long haul optical networks using analog transmission while avoiding the detrimental effects of dispersion.
Direct current modulation of lasers is known for use in digital optical transmission systems such as dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) systems. See, for example, Kartalopoulos, DWDM Networks, Devices, and Technology (IEEE Press, 2003), p. 154.
One of the difficulties in designing an analog system at 1550 nm is that suitable low chirp linear lasers for use at 1550 nm are not known in the prior art. One type of low chirp laser is the external cavity laser, which is used in digital optical transmission systems, and is a commercially available product.
In addition to the low chirp characteristics required for an analog optical transmission system at 1550 nm, the system must be highly linear. Distortion inherent in certain analog transmitters prevents a linear electrical modulation signal from being converted linearly to an optical signal, and instead causes the signal to become distorted. These effects are particularly detrimental to multi-channel video transmission, which requires excellent linearity to prevent channels from interfering with each other. A highly linearized analog optical system has wide application in commercial analog systems, such as broadcast TV transmission, CATV, interactive TV, and video telephone transmission.
Linearization of optical and other nonlinear transmitters has been studied for sometime, but proposed solutions suffer from practical disadvantages. Most applications discussed above have bandwidths which are too large for many practical implementations. Feedforward techniques require complex system components such as optical power combiners and multiple optical sources. Quasi-optical feedforward techniques suffer from similar complexity problems and further require extremely well matched parts.
As noted above, external modulators are known for use in optical transmission systems in the prior art. U.S. Pat. No. 5,699,179 describes an externally modulated, feed-forward linearized analog optical transmitter for reducing the fiber-induced composite second order (CSO) distortion components.
Prior to the present invention, there has not been an application of an external modulator coupled to a directly (current) modulated laser for the purpose of cancelling phase modulated components arising from chirp in the external cavity laser.
It is an object of the present to provide an improved optical transmission system using a directly modulated laser.
It is another object of the present invention to compensate for the chirp in a laser used in a 1550 nm analog optical transmission system.
It is also another object of the present invention to provide a phase modulator for use in a 1550 nm analog optical transmission system to improve noise reduction.
It is still another object of the present invention to provide a low chirp, highly linear analog optical transmission system suitable for long haul dispersive optical fiber media using a directly modulated laser with a phase modulator.
It is still another object of the present invention to provide a phase shifting circuit for modulating a low chirp laser in an analog optical transmission system suitable for long haul dispersive optical fiber media.
It is also an object of the present invention to provide a direct modulation and phase distortion compensation process in a broadband analog optical transmission system.
Some implementations or embodiments may achieve fewer than all of the foregoing objects.
Briefly, and in general terms, the present invention provides an optical transmitter for generating a modulated optical signal for transmission over a dispersive fiber optic link to a remote receiver having an input for receiving a broadband analog radio frequency signal input; a semiconductor laser for producing an optical signal; and a modulation circuit for directly modulating the laser with the analog signal, including an optical phase modulator for reducing the distortion in the signal present at the receiver end of the fiber optic link due to phase modulation components.
In another aspect, the present invention provides an optical transmission system for use over dispersive fiber optic links including an optical transmitter with analog signal input; a low chirp laser; a modulation circuit for directly modulating the laser, and an attenuation and phase shifting circuit for canceling phase modulation components of the optical signal generated by the semiconductor laser.
In another aspect, the present invention further provides a low-cost direct modulation technique, preferably including a circuit for controlling an optical phase modulator reducing second and higher even order distortion products produced by a nonlinear device such as a laser.
In another aspect of the invention, the present invention provides a low chirp laser as an external cavity laser operating in the 1530 nm to 1570 nm range in the “C band” with an external phase modulator.
In another aspect of the invention, there is provided a chirp cancellation circuit for reducing distortion in the transmission of analog signals that splits an input RF modulation signal into two electrical paths, one primary and one secondary. The phase modulation cancellation signal is adjusted in amplitude and phase to match the frequency or phase dependence of the chirp by the nonlinear device. The phase of the signals are synchronized by a delay or phase adjustment element in one of the electrical paths. The primary and secondary signals are then recombined by the optical phase modulator to produce a single modulation signal having only amplitude modulation. Thus, the phase modulator linearizes the transmission of the optical signal by canceling phase component distortion inherent in nonlinear transmitting devices, making the analog signals suitable for transmission over dispersive fiber optic links. We refer to this configuration and technique as post phase correction (PPC).
Additional objects, advantages and novel features of the present invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art from this disclosure, including the following detailed description as well as by practice of the invention. While the invention is described below with reference to preferred embodiments, it should be understood that the invention is not limited thereto. Those of ordinary skill in the art having access to the teachings herein will recognize additional applications, modifications and embodiments in other fields, which are within the scope of the invention as disclosed and claimed herein and with respect to which the invention could be of significant utility.
These and other features and advantages of this invention will be better understood and more fully appreciated by reference to the following detailed description when considered in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:
The novel features and characteristics of the invention are set forth in the appended claims. The invention itself, however, as well as other features and advantages thereof; will be best understood by reference to a detailed description of a specific embodiment, when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
Details of the present invention will now be described, including exemplary aspects and embodiments thereof. Referring to the drawings and the following description, like reference numbers are used to identify like or functionally similar elements, and are intended to illustrate major features of exemplary embodiments in a highly simplified diagrammatic manner. Moreover, the drawings are not intended to depict every feature of actual embodiments nor the relative dimensions of the depicted elements, and are not drawn to scale.
The modulated optical signal which carries the video data is coupled by a fiber link 26 to an amplifier 28. The amplifier 28 is typically an erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA). The amplified optical signal is coupled to a fiber optical transmission line 30 to the receiver 60. The optical fiber transmission line 30 may be a long-distance link extending over several kilometers. In this case, line amplifiers such as EDFA 28 may be provided at spaced intervals along in the line in order to boost the signal to desired levels. At the receiver 60, an amplifier (not shown) may also be provided to boost the incoming optical signal. The boosted signal is then applied to a photodetector and demodulated at the receiver 60 to an electrical signal, which represents the original video or data signal at line 50.
The edge-emitting semiconductor laser used in the system of
In an embodiment, the laser is an external cavity laser and the wavelength of the light output by the laser is in the 1530 to 1570 nm range. Moreover, the broadband analog signal input has a bandwidth greater than one octave and includes a plurality of distinct information carrying channels.
The signal conditioning circuit 103 consists of a series connected sequence of circuits performing distinct operations on the input RF signal. The RF signal is applied to an attenuator 104 to appropriately adjust the amplitude of the signal to be commensurate with that of the phase shifted components introduced by the chirp characteristics of the laser 102. The RF signal applied to the laser 102 is appropriately pre-distorted by the use of a pre-distortion circuit 105, as is known in the prior art for modifying the RF signal applied to the laser to compensate for the nonlinear response of the laser affecting the signal at the remote receiver. Moreover, notwithstanding the improvements of the present invention to minimize distortion due to the dispersion introduced by the fiber, to the extent that the dispersive fiber link 113 still introduces some distortion into the signal received at the receiver 114, additional signal modifying circuitry can be employed in the pre-distortion circuit 105 to introduce a small compensating signal to cancel any such distortion still present at the receiver 114.
In particular, the amplitude of the phase modulated signal over the entire frequency range of the RF signal could vary as a function of the inverse of the RF frequency depending on the nature of the chirp. Thus, the compensating tilt circuit 106 will increase the gain of the applied RF signal to the phase modulator as a function of the inverse of the RF frequency so as to compensate for the non-linear response of the laser's phase modulation. This particular approach would apply in the case that the laser's chirp was “adiabatic”. Adiabatic chirp means that the FM response of the laser is in phase with the AM response and constant with respect to the modulation frequency. From this one can deduce that the phase modulation response would vary as the inverse of the modulation frequency (since the frequency modulation behaves as the derivative of the phase modulation).
The output of the attenuator 104 is then connected to a tilt circuit 106. The frequency response of the amplifier over the entire frequency range of the broadband RF signal is not constant. This gain variation, sometimes called “tilt”, may be compensated for by a compensating tilt circuit 106.
A tone generator 108 is provided to create a constant tone in the modulated optical signal for SBS (stimulated Brillouin scattering) suppression purposes. The output of the tone generator 108 is combined with the output of the phase delay circuit 107, and the combined RF signal is applied to the phase modulator 109. This RF combining must be done in such a way that unwanted phase delays or amplitude tilts are not introduced into the chirp cancellation path. The combined signal results in a phase modulation of the optical signal applied to the modulator 109 from the fiber connector 110, and more particularly to the cancellation of unwanted phase modulation components introduced by the laser 102.
The output of the modulator 109 is coupled over a fiber 111 to an amplifier 112, which is then connected to the optical link 113. At the remote end, the optical link 113 is connected to the receiver 114, which converts the received optical signal into an FR signal 115.
The phase modulator 109 of the present invention compensates for the nonlinear response of the laser 102, and/or for the distortion produced by the transmission of a frequency modulated optical signal through a dispersive fiber optic link as determined at the receiver end. The conditioning circuit 103 may be selectively adjustable to compensate for the distortion produced by the dispersive fiber optic link depending upon the length of the link, or may be factory set to a predetermined value to compensate for the distortion produced by the dispersive fiber optic link depending upon the length of the link. One such example of a length dependent dispersive effect would be self phase modulation (SPF).
Many variations and modifications will be apparent to those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. For example, although described and illustrated in the context of a TV signal modulating a laser or light emitting diode, other nonlinear devices such as amplifiers may have inherent distortion largely cancelled by this technique. The fine adjustment of the relative phase of the signals in the primary and secondary paths is in the secondary path in the illustrated embodiment, but this could also be in the primary path with the coarse adjustment. The secondary path is preferred since such a delay in the primary path may have an inappropriate impedance for this path.
The present invention monitors the output of the laser with a photodiode, converts the signal in a control signal, which is coupled to a laser output monitor control circuit, including a negative feedback control circuit coupled to the temperature controller for adjusting the temperature of the laser in response to the output of the laser.
Various aspects of the techniques and apparatus of the present invention may be implemented in digital circuitry, or in computer hardware, firmware, software, or in combinations of them. Circuits of the invention may be implemented in computer products tangibly embodied in a machine-readable storage device for execution by a programmable processor, or on software located at a network node or web site which may be downloaded to the computer product automatically or on demand. The foregoing techniques may be performed by, for example, a single central processor, a multiprocessor, one or more digital signal processors, gate arrays of logic gates, or hardwired logic circuits for executing a sequence of signals or program of instructions to perform functions of the invention by operating on input data and generating output. The methods may advantageously be implemented in one or more computer programs that are executable on a programmable system including at least one programmable processor coupled to receive data and instructions from, and to transmit data and instructions to, a data storage system, at least one in/out device, and at least one output device. Each computer program may be implemented in a high-level procedural or object-oriented programming language, or in assembly or machine language if desired; and in any case, the language may be compiled or interpreted language. Suitable processors include, by way of example, both general and special purpose microprocessors. Generally, a processor will receive instructions and data from read-only memory and/or random access memory. Storage devices suitable for tangibly embodying computer program instructions and data include all forms of non-volatile memory, including by way of example, semiconductor devices, such as EPROM, EEPROM, and flash memory devices; magnetic disks such as internal hard disks and removable disks; magneto-optical disks; and CD-ROM disks. Any of the foregoing may be supplemented by or incorporated in, specially designed application-specific integrated circuits (ASICS).
It will be understood that each of the elements described above, or two or more together, also may find a useful application in other types of constructions differing from the types described above.
While the invention has been illustrated and described as embodied in an optical transmission system, it is not intended to be limited to the details shown, since various modifications and structural changes may be made without departing in any way from the spirit of the present invention.
Without further analysis, from the foregoing others can, by applying current knowledge, readily adapt the present invention for various applications. Such adaptations should and are intended to be comprehended within the meaning and range of equivalence of the following claims.
This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/080,721, filed Mar. 15, 2005. This application is also related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/946,056 filed Sep. 21, 2004, and assigned to the common assignee.
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