Waveform reconstruction device, waveform reconstruction system, and waveform reconstruction method

• US 8,886,037 B2
• Filed: 03/02/2010
• Issued: 11/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Osaka University
• Original Assignee: Osaka University
• Inventors: Konishi, Tsuyoshi, Kato, Takuya, Goto, Hiroomi
• Primary Examiner(s): TRAN, DZUNG D
• Application Number:
  US13/254,624
• Publication Number:
  US 20110311223A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,715 Days
• Field of Search: 398/13, 398/28, 398/33, 398/38
• US Class Current: 398/38
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 11/00 Measuring the characteristics of individual optical pulses or of optical pulse trains
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 3/02 Details
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 3/0213 using attenuators
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 3/0218 using optical fibers
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 3/0245 using an optical amplifier of light, e.g. doped fiber

Abstract

Provided is a waveform reconstruction device capable of easily reconstructing an accurate time waveform of an optical signal without using an ultrafast time gate or a reference light source. A waveform reconstruction device (140) includes: a phase spectrum calculation unit (143) which (i) calculates a power spectrum of an output optical signal for each of a plurality of intensities of an input optical signal, when a phase spectrum of the input optical signal having the plurality of intensities is assumed to have a given phase spectrum, by simulating, using a parameter related to self-phase modulation of an optical fiber, propagation of the input optical signal through the optical fiber, and (ii) calculates, as the phase spectrum of the input optical signal, the given phase spectrum when a difference value between the calculated power spectrum and a measured power spectrum is equal to or less than a threshold value; and a waveform reconstruction unit (144) which reconstructs the time waveform of the input optical signal by performing frequency-time transform on the calculated phase spectrum and the power spectrum of the input optical signal.

Claims

1. A waveform reconstruction device which reconstructs a time waveform of an input optical signal, said waveform reconstruction device comprising:

an input spectrum obtaining unit configured to obtain a power spectrum of the input optical signal;

an output spectrum obtaining unit configured to obtain, as a measured power spectrum, a power spectrum for each of a plurality of intensities of the input optical signal, the power spectrum being obtained by measuring an output optical signal that is output after the input optical signal propagates through an optical fiber that induces self-phase modulation;

a phase spectrum calculation unit configured to (i) calculate as a calculated power spectrum, for each of the plurality of intensities of the input optical signal, a power spectrum of the output optical signal when a phase spectrum of the input optical signal having the plurality of intensities is assumed to have a given phase spectrum, by simulating the propagation of the input optical signal through the optical fiber using a parameter related to the self-phase modulation of the optical fiber, and (ii) calculate as the phase spectrum of the input optical signal, the given phase spectrum when a difference value between the calculated power spectrum and the measured power spectrum is equal to or less than a threshold; and

a waveform reconstruction unit configured to reconstruct a time waveform of the input optical signal by performing frequency-time transform on the phase spectrum calculated by said phase spectrum calculation unit and the power spectrum obtained by said input spectrum obtaining unit.

2. The waveform reconstruction device according to claim 1,

wherein said phase spectrum calculation unit is configured to search, changing the given phase spectrum according to a predetermined algorithm, for the given phase spectrum when the difference value becomes equal to or less than the threshold so as to calculate the phase spectrum of the input optical signal.

3. A waveform reconstruction system for reconstructing a time waveform of an input optical signal, said waveform reconstruction system comprising:

an intensity adjuster which changes an intensity of the input optical signal into a plurality of intensities different from each other;

an optical fiber which induces self-phase modulation of an optical signal that propagates through said optical fiber and which has a known parameter related to the self-phase modulation;

a spectral measurement device which measures a power spectrum of an output optical signal for each of the plurality of intensities, the output optical signal being output after the input optical signal whose intensity has been changed by said intensity adjuster propagates through said optical fiber; and

said waveform reconstruction device according to claim 1,

wherein said output spectrum obtaining unit is configured to obtain, as the measured power spectrum, the power spectrum measured by said spectral measurement device.

4. The waveform reconstruction device according to claim 3,

wherein said optical fiber has known parameters related to self-phase modulation of at least second-order dispersion, third-order dispersion, and fourth-order dispersion.

5. A waveform reconstruction method for reconstructing a time waveform of an input optical signal, said waveform reconstruction method comprising:

obtaining a power spectrum of the input optical signal;

obtaining, as a measured power spectrum, a power spectrum of an output optical signal, for each of a plurality of intensities of the input optical signal, by measuring the output optical signal that is output after the input optical signal propagates through an optical fiber that induces self-phase modulation;

calculating a phase spectrum by (i) calculating as a calculated power spectrum, for each of the plurality of intensities of the input optical signal, a power spectrum of the output optical signal when the phase spectrum of the input optical signal having the plurality of intensities is assumed to have a given phase spectrum, by simulating the propagation of the input optical signal through the optical fiber using a parameter related to the self-phase modulation of the optical fiber, and (ii) calculating as the phase spectrum of the input optical signal, the given phase spectrum when a difference value between the calculated power spectrum and the measured power spectrum is equal to or less than a threshold; and

reconstructing a time waveform of the input optical signal by performing frequency-time transform on the phase spectrum calculated in said calculating a phase spectrum and the power spectrum obtained in said obtaining a power spectrum of the input optical signal.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a program stored thereon for causing a computer to execute said waveform reconstruction method according to claim 5.