Pulse signal demodulation device

• US 7,606,503 B2
• Filed: 07/04/2005
• Issued: 10/20/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ikushima, Tsuyoshi, Fuse, Masaru
• Primary Examiner(s): SEDIGHIAN, REZA
• Application Number:
  US10/585,208
• Publication Number:
  US 20090175631A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,569 Days
• Field of Search: 398/202, 398/208, 398/210, 398/214, 398/140, 398/141, 398/154, 398/158
• US Class Current: 398/210
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/7183 Synchronisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/66 Non-coherent receivers, e.g. using direct detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 14/005 Optical Code Multiplex
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/49 using code conversion at the transmitter; using predistortion; using insertion of idle bits for obtaining a desired frequency spectrum; using three or more amplitude levels ; Baseband coding techniques specific to data transmission systems spectral shaping H04L25/03828
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/06 Demodulator circuits; Receiver circuits

Abstract

In an optical transmission system in which a pulse signal is converted into an optical signal before transmission, a pulse signal demodulation device capable of correctly demodulating the pulse signal is provided. An optical-to-electrical conversion section (31) converts a received optical signal into an electrical signal, and outputs the electrical signal as a received signal. A reception waveform information calculating section (33) outputs, as reception waveform information, information about a shape of a waveform of a short-pulse signal on which a distortion occurring during the time when a short-pulse signal is converted into an optical signal to when the optical signal is converted into a received signal by the optical-to-electrical conversion section (31), is reflected. A template signal generating section (34) generates a template signal which has a waveform on which a distortion similar to a distortion occurring in the received signal is reflected and is in synchronization with the received signal, based on the reception waveform information and a synchronization signal which is in synchronization with the received signal. A correlation section (32) obtains a correlation between waveforms of the received signal converted by the optical-to-electrical conversion section and the template signal to demodulate the pulse signal.

Claims

1. A pulse signal demodulation device for receiving a pulse signal converted into an optical signal via an optical transmission channel, and demodulating the pulse signal, comprising:

an optical-to-electrical conversion section for converting the received optical signal into an electrical signal, and outputting the electrical signal as a received signal;

a reception waveform information calculating section for outputting, as reception waveform information, information about a shape of a waveform of the pulse signal on which a distortion occurring during the time from when the pulse signal is converted to the optical signal to when the optical signal is converted into the received signal by the optical-to-electrical conversion section, is reflected;

a template signal generating section for generating a template signal which has a waveform on which a distortion similar to the distortion occurring in the received signal is reflected, and is in synchronization with the received signal, based on the reception waveform information output from the reception waveform information calculating section and a synchronization signal which is in synchronization with the received signal; and

a correlation section for demodulating the pulse signal by obtaining a correlation between waveforms of the received signal output from the optical-to-electrical conversion section and the template signal generated by the template signal generating section,

wherein the reception waveform information calculating section outputs, as reception waveform information, amplitudes and phases of a frequency component corresponding to an integral multiple of a peak frequency of a spectrum of the pulse signal, and the peak frequency component, in the distortion occurring in the pulse signal, and

the template signal generating section includes;

a plurality of sine wave generating sections for generating a sine wave signal having the peak frequency and a sine wave signal having a frequency which is an integral multiple of the peak frequency;

a plurality of amplitude/phase adjusting sections for adjusting amplitudes and phases of the sine wave signals generated by the plurality of sine wave generating sections, based on the reception waveform information; and

a wave combining section for combining the sine wave signals having the amplitudes and the phases adjusted by the plurality of amplitude/phase adjusting sections.

2. The pulse signal demodulation device according to claim 1, where the template signal generating section further includes a mask section for passing the combined signal obtained by the wave combining section, based a hopping pattern indicating timing of a pulse to be received, to generate the template signal.

3. The pulse signal demodulation device according to claim 1, wherein the pulse signal is an RZ signal, and

the template signal generating section further includes:

a bias section for adding a bias to the combined sine wave signal obtained by the wave combining section so that a minimum value of the combined sine wave signal is “

0”

, and outputting the resultant signal as a template signal.

4. The pulse signal demodulation device according to claim 1, wherein the reception waveform information calculating section generates the reception waveform information based on a waveform of the pulse signal as it is transmitted, and information about the optical transmission channel,

the information about the optical transmission channel includes a chirp parameter of a semiconductor laser or an optical modulator used as a transmitter for transmitting the optical signal, and a total dispersion amount of the optical transmission channel in a wavelength of the optical signal, and

the reception waveform information calculating section calculates a transmitted light spectrum based on a waveform of the pulse signal as it is transmitted, and a chirp parameter, calculates a received light spectrum based on the transmitted light spectrum and the total dispersion amount of the optical transmission channel, calculates a received signal spectrum converted into an electrical signal based on the received light spectrum, and outputs information about the received signal spectrum as reception waveform information.

5. The pulse signal demodulation device according to claim 1, wherein the reception waveform information calculating section generates the reception waveform information based on a waveform of the pulse signal as it is transmitted, and information about the optical transmission channel,

the device further comprising:

a storage section for storing a waveform of the pulse signal as it is transmitted, and the information about the optical transmission channel.

6. The pulse signal demodulation device according to claim 5, further comprising:

an input section for inputting the waveform of the pulse signal as it is transmitted, and the information about the optical transmission channel,

wherein the storage section stores the waveform of the pulse signal as it is transmitted, and the information about the optical transmission channel which are input from the input section.