JP2009171328A - Optical transmission system and control method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To lower house-side power consumption and also to reduce costs while preventing an optical waveform from deteriorating. <P>SOLUTION: An optical transmission system 1 is an optical transmission system that transmits a down optical signal, sent from an office-side transceiver 2 to a house-side transceiver 3, and an up optical signal, sent from the house-side transceiver 3 to the station-side transceiver 2 and having a different wavelength from the down optical signal, using a multimode optical fiber 4. The station-side tranceiver 2 includes an equalizer 20 wherein a tap coefficient for correcting the signal waveform of the up signal from the house-side tranceiver 3 is set and an equalizer 16 wherein a tap coefficient for correcting the down signal is set, the tap coefficient of the equalizer 16 being set corresponding to the tap coefficient of the equalizer 20. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an optical transmission system that transmits and receives optical signals in different wavelength bands via an optical fiber.

It has been studied to upgrade a multimode fiber laid for low-speed optical communication such as FDDI (Fiber-Distributed Data Interface) application at a low initial cost for high-speed optical communication of 10 Gbps. However, in a multimode fiber, optical signals of many modes pass through the core, so that propagation delay times between modes are different, and the optical waveform after transmission is likely to deteriorate. Therefore, a method of using an electronic dispersion compensation circuit (hereinafter referred to as an equalizer), which is a kind of digital filter, after conversion from light to an electrical signal at the receiving end of the optical fiber has been studied (for example, Non-Patent Document 1 below). And Non-Patent Document 2). In addition, in single mode fiber, a method using an equalizer is being studied in order to compensate for chromatic dispersion and polarization dispersion caused by transmission.
Jack H. Winters, Richard D. Gitlin, “Electrical Signal Processing Techniques in Long-HaulFiber-Optic System”, Transactions On Communications, 1990, vol. 38, No. 9, p.1439-1453 P. Pepeljugoski, J. Schaub, J. Tierno, J. Kash, S. Gowda, B. Wilson, H. Wu, A. hajimiri, “Improved Performance of 10 Gb / s Multimode Fiber Optic Links Using Equalization”, Technical Digest of Optical Fiber Conference, 2003, ThG4

  Recently, in order to reduce the number of optical fibers, an optical transmission system that performs two-way communication using a single-core optical fiber has been put into practical use centering on a transmission speed of 1 Gbps, and is applied to signal transmission at a higher speed than at present. It is being considered. In such a single-core bidirectional optical transmission system, the same transceiver (transceiver) that is different only in the emission wavelength of a laser diode (hereinafter referred to as LD) is connected to both ends of a single-core optical fiber. For example, an optical signal generated from an LD having an emission wavelength of 1490 nm is transmitted from one end of an optical fiber, the optical signal is waveform-shaped in an equalizer in a transceiver connected to the other end of the optical fiber, and further a clock recovery circuit ( Clock data recovery) restores the data and transfers it to the upper layer. In addition, an optical signal generated from an LD having an emission wavelength of 1310 nm is similarly processed at one end of the optical fiber and transferred to an upper layer.

  As an application example of the single-core bidirectional optical transmission system, for example, the station side and the home side are connected like FTTH (Fiber To The Home). An application example in a LAN environment is also conceivable. In this case, it is often used to connect devices of different scales such as a large-scale optical switch and individual computers (hereinafter referred to as “station”). ”In the broad sense includes a receiving end with a relatively large device scale such as an optical switch, and“ home ”refers to a receiving end with a relatively small device scale such as a computer. Including). Compared to the station side, which is equipped with a large-capacity power supply and often adjusts the environmental temperature, the available power capacity is limited on the home side, and the equipment installed on the home side is as much as possible. It is necessary to save power. Further, the home side device needs to be kept lower in cost than the station side. However, in the single fiber bidirectional optical transmission system, since the station side and the home side have the same configuration, power consumption and cost tend to be inevitably equal.

  Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of such problems, and an optical transmission system capable of realizing reduction in power consumption and cost reduction on the home side while preventing deterioration of an optical waveform, and its An object is to provide a control method.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, an optical transmission system according to the present invention includes an upstream optical signal having a wavelength different from a downstream optical signal from a station-side transceiver to a home-side transceiver and a downstream optical signal from the home-side transceiver to the station-side transceiver. A first digital filter in which a tap coefficient for correcting a signal waveform of an upstream signal from the home-side transceiver is set by the station-side transceiver; A second digital filter in which a tap coefficient for correcting a downstream signal is set, and the tap coefficient of the second digital filter is set corresponding to the tap coefficient of the first digital filter. Features.

  Alternatively, the control method of the optical transmission system of the present invention, the downstream optical signal from the station side transceiver to the home side transceiver, and the upstream optical signal having a wavelength different from the downstream optical signal from the home side transceiver to the station side transceiver, A control method for an optical transmission system that transmits and receives using one optical fiber, wherein the station transceiver corrects the waveform of the upstream signal by setting the tap coefficient of the first digital filter for the upstream signal, The downlink signal corrected using the second digital filter in which the tap coefficient based on the tap coefficient of the first digital filter is set is transmitted to the home-side transceiver.

  According to such an optical transmission system and its control method, the distortion of the reception characteristic of the upstream signal is corrected by setting the tap coefficient of the first digital filter based on the reception characteristic of the upstream signal of the station side transceiver. At the same time, the tap coefficient corresponding to the tap coefficient of the first digital filter is set in the second digital filter, and the transmission characteristic of the downlink signal of the station side transceiver is adjusted in advance by the second digital filter. . As a result, part of the functions of the home-side transceiver is transferred to the station-side transceiver by setting the tap coefficient obtained from the reception characteristics on the station-side to correspond to the station-side transmission system using the same optical fiber. Thus, it is possible to prevent deterioration of the optical waveform in the transmission / reception system while reducing power consumption and cost reduction on the home side.

  According to the optical transmission system of the present invention, it is possible to realize reduction of power consumption and cost reduction on the home side while preventing deterioration of the optical waveform.

  DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of an optical transmission system according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. In the description of the drawings, the same or corresponding parts are denoted by the same reference numerals, and redundant description is omitted.

  FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an optical transmission system 1 according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. The optical transmission system 1 has a configuration in which a station-side transceiver 2 and a home-side transceiver 3 are connected to both ends of one optical fiber 4. This optical fiber 4 is a so-called single-core multi-mode fiber (MMF), and a downstream optical signal having a wavelength of 1490 nm emitted from the transmitter 5 a of the station-side transceiver 2 is transmitted through the optical fiber 4. The upstream optical signal having a wavelength of 1310 nm that is transmitted toward the home-side transceiver 3 and emitted from the home-side transceiver 3 is transmitted toward the receiver 5b of the station-side transceiver 2 through the optical fiber 4. That is, in the optical transmission system 1, optical signals having different wavelength bands in the upstream direction and the downstream direction are transmitted / received by a wavelength division multiplexing method using a single optical fiber.

  The home-side transceiver 3 receives a downstream optical signal from the station-side transceiver 2 and converts the optical signal into an electrical signal, and restores the data based on the electrical signal from the PD 6. A receiver 8b having a clock recovery circuit (Clock Data Recovery) 7 that performs a clock recovery circuit 9 that receives a transmission signal from an external upper layer, and an LD drive circuit (Laser) that generates a drive current according to the transmission signal Diode Driver) 10 and a transmitter 8 a having an LD 11 that generates an upstream optical signal according to the driving current and emits the upstream optical signal to the optical fiber 4.

  The station-side transceiver 2 includes a transmitter 5a, a receiver 5b, and a controller (control circuit) 12 that controls operations of the transmitter 5a and the receiver 5b. The transmitter 5a includes a clock recovery circuit 13, an LD drive circuit 14, and an LD 15 that generates a downstream optical signal, an equalizer (second digital filter) 16 that corrects a drive signal supplied to the LD 15, and a controller 12. It further has a transmission stop circuit 17 for forcibly stopping the light emission of the LD 15 by the control. In addition to the PD 18 that receives the upstream optical signal and the clock recovery circuit 19, the receiver 5 b receives the equalizer (first digital filter) 20 that corrects the electrical signal (received signal) from the PD 18 and the upstream of the PD 18. It further has a light detection circuit 21 for detecting a light signal.

  Hereinafter, the configuration of the equalizers 16 and 20 will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

An equalizer 20 shown in the figure is a transversal filter having a role of electrically compensating for dispersion included in an upstream optical signal having a wavelength of 1310 nm, and performs waveform shaping of an electric signal from the PD 18. The equalizer 20 receives an electrical signal from the PD 18 and electrically compensates for the dispersion of the upstream optical signal having a wavelength of 1310 nm. Specifically, the equalizer 20 includes a forward equivalent unit 31 in which a plurality of taps are configured by the delay circuit T and the multipliers C _{0 to} C _m, and the delay circuit T and the multipliers D _{0 to} D _n. And a backward equivalent (Decision Feed-back Equalizer) section 33 in which a plurality of taps are configured. The front equivalent unit 31 multiplies each signal delayed by one bit with respect to the input signal by the delay circuit T by each coefficient of c _{00 to} c _m0 in each multiplier C _{0 to} C _m and outputs the result to the adder 35. ing. In the backward equivalent unit 33, the output signal is determined to be “1” or “0” by the comparator 37, and delayed by one bit with respect to the signal (“1” or “0”) after the determination by the delay circuit T. The signal is multiplied by each coefficient of d _{00 to} dn ₀ in each of the multipliers D _{0 to} D _n and output to the adder 35. The adder 35 calculates the sum of the signals C _{0 to} C _m and D _{0 to} D _n from the front equalizer 31 and the rear equalizer 33 and outputs the sum to the comparator 37. The tap coefficients (compensation coefficients) c _{00 to} c _m0 in the front equivalent unit 31 and the tap coefficients (compensation coefficients) d _{00 to} d _n0 in the rear equivalent unit 33 are transmitted from the controller 12 described later. An appropriate value is set by the signal i. For example, the controller 12 detects the difference between the input and output of the comparator 37 as an error signal, and adjusts the tap coefficients c _{00 to} c _m0 and d _{00 to} d _n0 so that the difference is minimized.

The equalizer 16 has the same configuration as the equalizer 20 and performs waveform shaping of the drive signal of the LD 15 input from the LD drive circuit 14. The tap coefficients (compensation coefficients) c _{01 to} c _m1 and d _{01 to} dn ₁ in the front equivalent unit 31 and the rear equivalent unit 33 of the equalizer 16 are set to appropriate values by the setting signal i transmitted from the controller 12.

An error signal between the input signal to the comparator 37 and the output signal (“1” or “0”) in the equalizer 20 is transmitted to the controller 12, and the controller 12 determines the input signal and the output signal based on the error signal. The tap coefficients c _{00 to} c _m0 and d _{00 to} d _n0 are determined so that the error of is minimized. Then, the tap coefficients c _{00 to} c _m0 of the front equivalent unit 31 of the equalizer 20 and the tap coefficients d _{00 to} d _{n0 of the} rear equivalent unit 33 are updated by the setting signal i transmitted from the controller 12. In this way, the tap coefficients c _{00 to} c _m0 and d _{00 to} dn ₀ are optimized and set, so that the electrical signal from the PD 18 is targeted with respect to the distortion of the upstream optical signal due to the insufficient bandwidth of the optical fiber 4. Optimal waveform shaping. For example, the transmission characteristic of the optical fiber 4 that is an MMF generally has such a characteristic that a high frequency is deteriorated. Therefore, the reception characteristic close to flat can be obtained as a result by raising the high frequency range of the electric signal by the equalizer 20.

On the other hand, in the conventional optical transmission system, compensation for distortion of the downstream optical signal is generally performed by a receiver on the home side. On the other hand, in the optical transmission system 1 of the present embodiment, the controller 12 performs control so that the tap coefficient of the equalizer 20 provided in the station-side receiver is reflected in the equalizer 16 provided in the station-side transmitter. That is, when the controller 12 determines the tap coefficients c _{00 to} c _m0 and d _{00 to} dn ₀ of the equalizer 20, the tap coefficients c _{01 to} c _m1 and d _{01 to} dn ₁ of the equalizer 16 are changed to the tap coefficients c _00. determine the ~c _{m0, d} 00 _{~d n0} same value, the tap coefficients _c 01 _{to c m1} of the front equivalent portion 31 of the equalizer 16 by the setting signal i, and a tap coefficient _d 01 _{to d n1} of the rear equivalence 33 Update. In this way, the tap coefficients c _{01 to} c _m1 and d _{01 to} dn ₁ are optimized and set, so that the LD 15 is driven with distortion in advance with respect to the distortion of the downstream optical signal due to insufficient bandwidth of the optical fiber 4. Therefore, the reception side can receive an optical signal without using an equalizer. More specifically, since the tap coefficient of the equalizer 20 is set so as to flatten the high frequency band of the distorted reception characteristic, setting the tap coefficient on the transmission side in advance at the transmitting end on the station side. It means that the high frequency side is lifted and transmitted. As a result, reception characteristics that deteriorate on the high frequency side when transmitted via the MMF are canceled out, and flat reception characteristics can be obtained on the reception side. Since the upstream optical signal and the downstream optical signal have different transmission wavelengths, the degree of deterioration due to transmission also differs. Therefore, the tap coefficient of the equalizer 16 may be calculated from the tap coefficient of the equalizer 20 according to the degree. .

  Further, in the optical transmission system 1, the equalizer 16 is not set to compensate for the band characteristics of the optical fiber 4 at the start-up, and therefore the home-side transceiver 3 cannot normally receive the downstream optical signal. In order to avoid this, the transmission stop circuit 17 of the station-side transceiver 2 is set to stop the light emission of the LD 15 at the time of startup, and the controller 12 sets the equalizer 20 by connecting the optical fiber 4 after startup. After completing the above, the LD 15 controls to transmit a downstream optical signal. Specifically, the controller 12 determines whether the tap coefficient of the equalizer 20 has converged after the light detection circuit 21 detects reception of the upstream optical signal in the PD 18. The convergence of this tap coefficient is determined by whether or not the error signal output from the equalizer 20 falls within a predetermined range. Then, after the tap coefficient has converged, the controller 12 controls to cancel the light emission stop by the transmission stop circuit 17 and start the light emission of the LD 15.

According to the optical transmission system 1 and its control method described above, the tap coefficients c _{00 to} c _m0 and d _{00 to} d _{n0 of} the equalizer 20 are set based on the reception characteristics of the upstream signal of the station-side transceiver 2. , together with the distortion of the reception characteristics of the uplink signal is corrected, the tap coefficients _c 00 _{~c m0, d} 00 _~d tap coefficients _n0 same value _{c 01 ~c m1, d 01 ~d} n1 of the equalizer 20 is an equalizer 16, the equalizer 16 adjusts in advance the transmission characteristics of the downstream signal of the station-side transceiver 2. Specifically, the tap coefficients _{c 00 ~c m0, d 00 ~d} n0 of the equalizer 20 reflects the band characteristics of 1310nm of the one-core optical fiber 4, the tap coefficients _{c 00 ~c m0, d} 00 ˜d _n0 is set in the equalizer 16 of the transmission system via the controller 12, so that it is possible to generate an optical signal in which the shortage of the optical fiber band is compensated, and reception is also possible by a home-side receiver that does not have an equalizer. It becomes possible. Thereby, part of the functions of the home-side transceiver 3 can be transferred to the station-side transceiver 2 to reduce the power consumption and cost of the home-side, and to prevent optical waveform deterioration in the transmission / reception system. The power consumption of a single-core bidirectional transceiver (transmitting system, receiving system, and basic control unit only) is normally about 1 W at maximum, whereas an equalizer (front equivalent unit 8 stages, rear equivalent unit 4) The power consumption of the stage) is about 1.5 W, so that the effect of reducing the equalizer from the home-side transceiver is considerable.

  Next, FIGS. 3 to 6 show eye patterns of optical signals after being transmitted through the optical fiber 4 in the optical transmission system 1.

FIG. 3 is an eye pattern before compensation by the equalizer 20 after the upstream optical signal having a wavelength of 1310 nm is transmitted through the optical fiber 4 of 220 m. FIG. 4 is an eye pattern after compensation by the equalizer 20 of the same upstream optical signal. It is. Tap coefficients optimized equalizer 20 in this _{case, c 00 = 0.169, c 10} = -0.635, c 20 = 1.972, c 30 = 0.237, c 40 = -0.076 , D ₀₀ = −0.461, d ₁₀ = 0.001, d ₂₀ = 0.013. The EOP (Eye Opening Penalty) before compensation is 6.26 dB, while the EOP after passing through the equalizer with the tap coefficient optimized is 0.17 dB, which significantly improves the signal light reception characteristics. You can see that EOP is defined as x / y, where x is the intensity width of the opening of the eye diagram after transmission deterioration and y is the intensity width of the opening of the eye diagram before transmission deterioration.

  On the other hand, FIG. 5 shows an eye pattern after a downstream optical signal having a wavelength of 1490 nm that has not been modulated by the equalizer 16 is transmitted through the optical fiber 4 of 220 m, and FIG. 6 shows a downstream pattern that has been modulated by the equalizer 16. It is the eye pattern after transmission of the optical fiber 4 of the optical signal. The EOP in FIG. 6 is 0.83 dB, and the eye opening can be made sufficiently large compared to EOP = 4.21 dB in FIG. Thus, even when the tap coefficient optimized for the wavelength of 1310 nm is applied to the wavelength of 1490 nm, a sufficient eye opening can be ensured.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an optical transmission system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. It is a block diagram which shows the detailed structure of the equalizer of FIG. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an eye pattern of an upstream optical signal before compensation in the optical transmission system of FIG. 1. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an eye pattern of an upstream optical signal after compensation in the optical transmission system of FIG. 1. It is a figure which shows the eye pattern of the downstream optical signal which is not modulated in the optical transmission system of FIG. It is a figure which shows the eye pattern of the downstream optical signal modulated in the optical transmission system of FIG.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Optical transmission system, 2 ... Station side transceiver, 3 ... Home side transceiver, 4 ... Optical fiber, 12 ... Controller (control part), 16 ... Equalizer (2nd digital filter), 20 ... Equalizer (1st digital) _{filter), c 00 ~c m0, d} 00 ~d n0, c 01 ~c m1, d 01 ~d n1 ... tap coefficient.

Claims (4)

Light that transmits and receives, using a single optical fiber, an optical signal having a wavelength different from that of the downstream optical signal from the station-side transceiver to the home-side transceiver and the downstream optical signal from the home-side transceiver to the station-side transceiver. A transmission system,
The station-side transceiver is
A first digital filter in which a tap coefficient for correcting the signal waveform of the upstream signal from the home-side transceiver is set;
A second digital filter in which a tap coefficient for correcting the downlink signal is set,
The tap coefficient of the second digital filter is set corresponding to the tap coefficient of the first digital filter;
An optical transmission system characterized by that. The one optical fiber is a multimode fiber.
The optical transmission system according to claim 1. Light that transmits and receives, using a single optical fiber, an optical signal having a wavelength different from that of the downstream optical signal from the station-side transceiver to the home-side transceiver and the downstream optical signal from the home-side transceiver to the station-side transceiver. A control method for a transmission system,
In the transceiver on the station side, the tap coefficient of the first digital filter is set for the upstream signal to correct the waveform of the upstream signal,
Further, the downlink signal corrected using the second digital filter in which the tap coefficient based on the tap coefficient of the first digital filter is set is transmitted to the home-side transceiver.
An optical transmission system control method. The one optical fiber is a multimode fiber.
The method of controlling an optical transmission system according to claim 3.

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