JP5598066B2 - Coherent optical receiver and receiving method - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a coherent optical receiver capable of adjusting the frequency of a wavelength tunable light source according to signal light, and a reception method.

In a DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) communication system, the transmission rate per channel may be increased in order to realize large-capacity transmission. However, if the transmission rate per channel is 10 Gbps or more, the transmission distance of the optical signal is limited due to the influence of chromatic dispersion and polarization mode dispersion. For this reason, in an optical transmission system having a transmission rate per channel of 40 Gbps or more, a coherent optical receiver that transmits a signal using not only light intensity information but also phase information is used for the purpose of extending the transmission distance. And its importance is increasing.
A coherent receiver separates a signal into intensity and phase using interference between signal light transmitted from a transmitter and LO (Local Oscillator) light oscillated by a wavelength tunable light source of the receiver.

However, if the frequency difference f _d between the LO light and the signal light is varied, thereby deteriorating the reception characteristic fluctuates from the frequency f _d where the frequency of the output carrier of a coherent optical receiver is scheduled. In particular, the general wavelength fluctuation amount of the wavelength tunable light source is set to ± 2.5 GHz, and there is a possibility that a frequency fluctuation of about 5 GHz at maximum occurs. Considering that the band of the electronic circuit is around 20 GHz, the fluctuation amount of 5 GHz is large. In order not to cause such deterioration of reception characteristics, a function for maintaining the frequency difference _fd at an appropriate value is required.

In order to maintain the frequency difference _fd at an appropriate value, it is necessary to control the frequency of the signal light and the LO light, but it is difficult to control the frequency of the signal light from the receiving side. Therefore, it is required to control the frequency of LO light oscillated by the wavelength tunable light source. Since the light source for LO light needs to be shifted in frequency by several GHz from the signal light, full-band characteristics that can scan the entire wavelength band of signal light, frequency tuning characteristics that can fine-tune the optical frequency, and phase noise reduction Narrow line width characteristics are required.

  As a wavelength tunable light source having such a feature, Patent Document 1 discloses a ring resonator type wavelength tunable light source using a planar lightwave circuit.

JP 2006-196554 A

However, in the wavelength tunable light source, taking into account the frequency difference f _d between the LO light and the signal light, it does not disclose a technique for controlling the frequency of the LO light.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and in a coherent optical receiver having a ring resonator type wavelength tunable light source, obtains a frequency difference between signal light and LO light and applies feedback to the wavelength tunable light source. An object of the present invention is to provide a coherent optical receiver and a reception method that correct a frequency difference between signal light and LO light.

A coherent optical receiver according to the first aspect of the present invention that achieves the above object is as follows.
A local oscillation light output section for outputting local oscillation light;
A combining unit that combines the local oscillation light and the received signal light and outputs the combined signal light;
An optical conversion unit that converts the combined signal light output by the combining unit into an electrical signal and outputs a signal of an in-phase component and a signal of a quadrature component of the electrical signal;
An A / D converter that converts the in-phase and quadrature components output from the optical converter into discrete signals and outputs the discrete signals;
A digital signal processing unit for obtaining a frequency difference between the local oscillation light and the reception signal light from the discrete signals of the in-phase component and the quadrature component output by the A / D conversion unit;
A frequency control unit for controlling the frequency of the local oscillation light output from the local oscillation light output unit based on an error between the frequency difference obtained by the digital signal processing unit and a predetermined value;
With
The local oscillation light output unit is provided in each of the multiple resonators in which a plurality of resonators having different optical path lengths are optically coupled and the plurality of resonators, and changes the resonance wavelength of the plurality of resonators. A plurality of resonator control units, and a supply unit that supplies light to the multiple resonators,
Wherein the frequency control unit, the power supplied to the plurality of resonators control unit, by increasing or decreasing by the same amount for each of the resonator controller, the local oscillator light so as to reduce the error It is characterized by controlling the frequency.

A receiving method according to the second aspect of the present invention is:
A reception method performed by an apparatus including a local oscillation light output unit, a synthesis unit, an optical conversion unit, an A / D conversion unit, a digital signal processing unit, and a frequency control unit,
The local oscillation light output section outputs a local oscillation light, and a local oscillation light output step;
The combining unit combines the local oscillation light and the received signal light, and outputs a combined signal light;
An optical conversion step in which the optical conversion unit converts the combined signal light output from the combining unit into an electric signal, and outputs an in-phase component signal and a quadrature component signal of the electric signal;
The A / D conversion unit converts the in-phase component and quadrature component signals output from the light conversion unit into discrete signals and outputs the discrete signals; and
A digital signal processing step in which the digital signal processing unit obtains a frequency difference between the local oscillation light and the reception signal light from the discrete signals of the in-phase component and the quadrature component output by the A / D conversion unit;
The frequency control unit controls the frequency of the local oscillation light output from the local oscillation light output unit based on an error between the frequency difference obtained by the digital signal processing unit and a predetermined value; and
With
The local oscillation light output unit is provided in each of the multiple resonators in which a plurality of resonators having different optical path lengths are optically coupled and the plurality of resonators, and changes the resonance wavelength of the plurality of resonators. A plurality of resonator control units, and a supply unit that supplies light to the multiple resonators,
Wherein the frequency control unit, the power supplied to the plurality of resonators control unit, by increasing or decreasing by the same amount for each of the resonator controller, the local oscillator light so as to reduce the error It is characterized by controlling the frequency.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a coherent optical receiver and a receiving method that correct a frequency difference between signal light and LO light in a coherent optical receiver having a ring resonator type wavelength tunable light source.

It is a figure which shows the whole structure of the coherent optical receiver which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of a wavelength variable light source part. It is a figure which shows the structure of a frequency FB control part. It is a flowchart for demonstrating operation | movement of the LO optical frequency control process which a coherent optical receiver performs.

Coherent optical receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention, i) determine the frequency difference f _d between the signal light and the LO light, obtains the error between the preset value and ii) the frequency difference f _d, iii ) Adjust the power supplied to the wavelength tunable light source to control the frequency of the LO light so as to reduce the error.
Hereinafter, the coherent optical receiver 1 will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

As shown in FIG. 1, the coherent optical receiver 1 according to the present embodiment includes a variable wavelength light source unit 11, a combining unit 12, an optical receiving unit 13, an A / D (Analog / Digital) converter 14, The digital signal processing unit 15 and the frequency FB control unit 16 are configured.
The output signal of the coherent optical receiver 1 is, for example, an optical signal output from the combining unit 12, an analog electrical signal output from the light receiving unit 13, a digital signal output from the A / D converter 14, or the like.

  The wavelength variable light source unit 11 outputs laser light (hereinafter referred to as “LO light”) to be combined with signal light transmitted from the optical fiber. As shown in FIG. 2, the wavelength tunable light source 11 includes a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) 111, ring resonators 112 to 114, a planar lightwave circuit (PLC) substrate 115, and a high reflection. The film 116 includes an input / output side waveguide 117a, waveguides 117b and 117c, a reflection side waveguide 117d, and TO (Thermo Optic) phase shifters 118a, 118b, and 118c. The ring resonators 112 to 114, the input / output side waveguides 117a, the waveguides 117b and 117c, the reflection side waveguides 117d, and the TO phase shifters 118a, 118b, and 118c are formed on the PLC substrate 115.

  The wavelength tunable light source unit 11 emits LO light from the SOA 111 by causing resonance between the exit surface of the SOA 111 and the highly reflective film 116. The wavelength tunable light source 11 outputs LO light shifted by a predetermined frequency from the signal light transmitted by the optical fiber.

The SOA 111 is provided at the end of the optical input / output side waveguide 117a of the PLC substrate, and includes a light emitting unit and an amplifying unit that amplifies the light oscillated by the light emitting unit.
The light emitting unit is composed of a semiconductor laser element, and emits oscillation light to the light input / output side waveguide 117a via the amplification unit. In the following description, the wavelength of the oscillation light is 1.55 μm.
The amplifying unit is made of a compound semiconductor material such as InGaAsP, and functions as a gain region and a phase control region depending on the composition of the material.

The gain region is designed to amplify light with a wavelength around 1.55 μm, and by controlling (increasing / decreasing) the current supplied to the gain region, the intensity of the oscillation light emitted from the light emitting unit is controlled. The intensity of oscillation light emitted to the optical input / output side waveguide 117a can be controlled (increased or decreased).
On the other hand, the phase control region is designed to amplify light having a wavelength different from the wavelength of oscillation light of the light emitting unit, for example, light having a wavelength of about 1.33 μm. For this reason, even if a current is injected into the phase control region, the oscillation light of the light emitting unit is not amplified. However, since the refractive index of the phase control region changes depending on the applied voltage, the wavelength and phase of the oscillation light can be controlled by adjusting the applied power. Although it is possible to control the wavelength even in the gain region, the light output also changes at the same time. Therefore, stable operation of the optical input / output side waveguide is realized by individually controlling the gain region and the phase control region.

  The ring resonators 112 to 114 are configured by ring-shaped waveguides having different optical path lengths, and are connected via the waveguides 117b and 117c. The coupled ring resonators 112 to 114 form a multiple optical resonator 119. The free spectral range (FSR) of the ring resonators 112 to 114 can be adjusted by changing the optical path length. The FSR of the multiple optical resonator 119 coincides with the least common multiple of the resonance frequencies of two ring resonators having different optical path lengths selected arbitrarily from the ring resonators 112 to 114 (Vernier effect). Alternatively, the FSR of the multiple optical resonator 119 can be made to coincide with the least common multiple of the resonance frequencies of the ring resonators 112 to 114.

Assuming that the resonance frequency of one ring resonator is f and the difference between the resonance frequencies of the other ring resonator is Δf and f >> Δf, the FSR is obtained from the following equation.
FSR = f ² / Δf
For example, assuming that the resonance frequency of one ring resonator is 50.0 GHz, the resonance frequency of the other ring resonator is 49.5 GHz, and f = 50.0 GHz and Δf = 0.5 GHz, FSR≈5 THz is obtained. That is, the filter characteristic of the multiple optical resonator expressed by two ring resonators has a period of 5 THz.

  When the multiple optical resonator 119 includes three ring resonators as in the present embodiment, the filter characteristics of the multiple optical resonator 119 can be expressed by a combination of two FSRs. For example, when the resonance frequencies of the ring resonators 112 to 114 are 50.0 GHz, 49.5 GHz, and 45 GHz, FSR1 = 5 THz when 50.0 GHz and 49 GHz are combined, and FSR2 = 500 GHz when 50.0 GHz and 45 GHz are combined. Therefore, the multi-resonator 119 can obtain filter characteristics with a 5 THz period and a 500 GHz period. Although the filter characteristics of FSR3 = 4.5 THz can be obtained by the combination of 49.5 GHz and 45 GHz, since FSR3 is closer to FSR1 = 5 THz than FSR2, it can be considered that the FSR1 and FSR2 are degenerated into two FSRs. . Hereinafter, the variable wavelength light source unit 11 is degenerated into two FSRs.

The high reflection film 116 is provided at the end of the light reflection side waveguide 117d of the PLC substrate, and reflects the light transmitted through the reflection side waveguide 117d to the reflection side waveguide 117d.
The light emitted from the SOA 111 to the multiple optical resonator 119 repeats reflection and interference through the path of the SOA 111 → the multiple optical resonator 119 → the highly reflective film 116 → the multiple optical resonator 119 → the SOA 111, and passes through the reflective film. Is output as LO light. Therefore, the frequency of LO light matches the resonance frequency of the multiple optical resonator 119.

The TO phase shifter 118 a is provided in the ring resonator 112, the TO phase shifter 118 b is provided in the ring resonator 113, and the TO phase shifter 118 c is provided in the ring resonator 114. Each TO phase shifter 118a, 118b, 118c applies heat to each ring resonator 112, 113, 114 according to the supplied power. This heat changes the refractive index of the ring waveguides of the ring resonators 112 to 114, thereby changing the optical path lengths of the ring resonators 112 to 114. When the optical path length of each ring resonator is changed, the resonance frequency of the multiple optical resonator 119 is changed, so that the frequency of the LO light oscillated by the wavelength variable light source is changed. For example, when the power supplied to the TO phase shifters 118a, 118b, and 118c is increased, the frequency of the LO light is decreased. When the power supplied to the TO phase shifters 118a, 118b, and 118c is decreased, the frequency of the LO light is increased.
The TO phase shifters 118a, 118b, and 118c are constituted by, for example, a film heater constituted by an aluminum film provided on a substrate.

  The combining unit 12 combines the signal light transmitted from the outside by the optical fiber and the LO light emitted from the wavelength tunable light source unit 11, and combines the in-phase component (I component) and the quadrature component (Q component) of the combined light. Are output to the optical receiver 13. The synthesizing unit 12 is composed of, for example, an optical coupler.

  The optical receiving unit 13 converts the I component light and the Q component light received from the combining unit 12 into baseband electric signals, respectively, and A / D converts the I component and Q component of the baseband electric signals. To the unit 14. For example, the light receiving unit 13 is composed of a photodiode.

  The A / D converter 14 performs sampling and quantization on the I component and Q component of the baseband electrical signal output from the optical receiver 13 to generate a discrete digital baseband signal, and the discrete digital baseband The signal is output to the digital signal processing unit 15.

The digital signal processing unit 15 obtains a difference (frequency difference f _d ) between the frequency of the signal light and the frequency of the LO light from the discrete digital baseband signal received from the A / D conversion unit 14. In general, when the frequency difference _fd is increased, the phase relationship between the I component and the Q component changes because a deviation occurs between the passband of the BPF processing performed by the digital signal processing unit 15 and the actual carrier frequency. Therefore, the digital signal processing unit 15 obtains a frequency difference f _d based on the change in the phase relationship between the I and Q components.

The frequency difference _fd is obtained as follows.
When the transmitted signal is a quaternary phase modulation component, the signal can be expressed as I + j * Q (j is an imaginary unit) from the I component and Q component of the signal. Since the angle between the constellation points of the quaternary signal component is 360/4 and 90 degrees, the result when the signal component is raised to the fourth power ((I + j * Q) ⁴ ) is 0 if there is no phase error. Degree. However, since there is actually a phase error, the answer to the fourth power calculation is in the range of 0 to 2π. The result of making this calculation result 1/4 is the phase error. Determining a frequency difference f _d and backward from the phase error.

Frequency FB control unit 16, based on the change amount of the frequency difference _{f d} between the signal light and the LO light, having the TO phase shifters 118a, 118b, the function of adjusting the power supplied to 118c. The frequency FB control unit 16 includes a control unit 161, a storage unit 162, and a power supply unit 163.

Controller 161, for example, CPU consists (Central Processing Unit), a frequency difference between the frequency difference f _d to the digital signal processor 15 is determined, the signal light and the LO light which is previously stored in the storage unit 162 ( Hereinafter, a difference (deviation: deviation) e _f (= f _{d_def} −f _d ) from “set value f _{d_def} ” is obtained, and the difference e _f is determined from a predetermined value (hereinafter referred to as “allowable value e _fal ”). If larger, i.e., in the case of _{e f} ≧ _{e fal,} so as to reduce the difference _{e f,} i.e., such that the _{f d_def} = _{f d,} to the power supply unit 163, tO phase shifters 118a, 118b, An instruction to increase or decrease the power (supply power) P supplied to 118c is output.

  Specifically, the control unit 161 changes the power supplied to the TO phase shifters 118a, 118b, and 118c by the same amount. For example, when a TO phase shifter with a power cycle of 4 mW per channel (50 GHz) is used, the frequency of LO light decreases by 12.5 GHz if the power is increased by 1 mW to three TO phase shifters. Thereby, it is not necessary to set the values of a plurality of TO phase shifters individually, and the frequency of LO light can be controlled by setting them uniformly.

  For example, it is assumed that the multiple optical resonator 119 has two ring resonators of 50.0 GHz and 49.5 GHz and has a filter characteristic of FSR = 5 THz. That is, the multiple optical resonator 119 repeats the transmission characteristics at intervals of 5 THz. Since the frequency band of light used in a typical tunable light source is around 193.1 THz, the filter formed by the multiple optical resonator 119 is used in the 38th to 39th FSR cycles. Since the resonance frequencies of the two ring resonators are shifted by about 1%, the two ring resonator frequencies coincide with each other in one FSR period of 5 THz. Further, the transmission loss decreases at a wavelength at which the resonance frequencies of the two ring resonators match. Therefore, the multiple optical resonator 119 can selectively transmit a desired wavelength in the FSR period.

  According to the above method, a desired wavelength can be selected at intervals of 50 GHz from within the 5 THz wavelength band. At this time, the frequency adjustment range necessary to realize the maximum variable frequency of 5 THz is 50 GHz. Therefore, every time the frequency is shifted by several GHz, the resonance frequencies of the ring resonators separated by 50 GHz coincide with each other, so that a frequency variable width of 5 THz can be obtained only by tuning the frequency up to 50 GHz. In other words, it can be realized with an input power of 1/100 compared with the case of implementing with one ring resonator. In addition, grid characteristics at intervals of 50 GHz are generated in the frequency tuning characteristics. However, since the frequencies used in an actual optical communication system are every 50 GHz, this characteristic is advantageous.

The storage unit 162 stores the set value f _{d_def} and the allowable value. The set value f _{d_def} and the allowable value can be set in advance by the user.

  The power supply unit 163 supplies the specified amount of power to the TO phase shifters 118a, 118b, and 118c in accordance with an instruction from the control unit 161.

  Next, the LO optical frequency control process performed by the coherent optical receiver 1 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. In addition, although the process shown to step S11-step S14 is always performed below, in order to make an understanding of LO optical frequency control process which the coherent optical receiver 1 performs easy, it demonstrates along a time series.

  The wavelength variable light source 11 oscillates LO light (step S11).

  The combiner 12 combines the signal light transmitted from the optical fiber and the LO light (step S12).

  The optical receiver 13 converts the combined light into a baseband electrical signal, and outputs a signal having an in-phase component and a quadrature component of the electrical signal (step S13).

  The A / D converter 14 samples and quantizes the in-phase component and quadrature component electrical signals output from the optical receiver 13, and outputs a discrete digital baseband signal (step S14).

The digital signal processing unit 15 obtains a phase error of the discrete digital baseband signal, determining the frequency difference f _d between the signal light and the LO light from the phase error (step S15).

Control unit 161 of the frequency FB control circuit 16, the frequency difference f _d to the digital signal processor 15 is determined, by subtracting the set value f _{D_def} stored in the storage unit 162, the subtraction result e _f a tolerance e _fal is compared (step S16). If the subtraction result _{e f} is greater than the allowable value _{e fal} (step S16; Yes), the control unit 161, the obtained frequency difference _{f d} - on the basis of the set value _{f D_def} value _{e f,} TO phase shifters 118a, The electric power P supplied to 118b and 118c is adjusted (step S17). As a result, the optical path lengths of the ring resonators 112 to 114 change, and the frequency of the LO light oscillated in step S11 changes.

  On the other hand, when the subtraction result is equal to or less than the allowable value (step S16; No), the process returns to step S11 and LO light having the same frequency is output.

  The embodiment of the present invention has been described above with reference to the drawings. However, the specific configuration is not limited to this embodiment, and includes various modifications within the scope of the present invention. It is.

  For example, the number of ring resonators constituting the multiple optical resonator is not limited to three and can be any number.

  Further, it is not necessary to arrange the TO phase shifters in all the ring resonators, and the TO phase shifters may be arranged only in some of the ring resonators (for example, one or two of the three).

Moreover, it is not necessary to control the power supplied to all the TO phase shifters according to the difference e _f, a portion of the plurality of the TO phase shifters (e.g., one or two of the three) to the TO phase shifter Only supplied power may be controlled.

In the above embodiment, the power P supplied to the TO phase shifter is adjusted when the difference (deviation) e _f between the frequency difference f _d and the set value f _{d_def} is larger than the allowable value e _fal. without comparison with e _fal, may be changed to supply power P based on the difference e _f.

The relationship between the change amount ΔP of supplied power P to the difference e _f and the TO phase shifters can be set as appropriate.
For example, the change amount (adjustment amount) ΔP of power supplied to all TO phase shifters 118a, 118b, and 118c is based on PID control.
ΔP = A · e _f + B · ∫e _f dt + C · de _f / dt + D
May be set.
Here, A, B, C, and D are arbitrary constants, respectively.

Each TO phase shifters 118a, 118b, the power P supplied to 118c, for example, based on the following equation, it can be controlled on the basis of the frequency difference _{f d.}
P = E · f _d + F · ∫f _d dt + G · df _d / dt + H
Here, E, F, G, and H are arbitrary constants, respectively.
Other, if it is possible to converge the frequency difference f _d to the target value, the control method is arbitrary.

In the above embodiment, the example in which the frequency of the signal light does not change so much has been shown. However, the present invention can also be applied to, for example, a configuration in which the frequency of the signal light carrier wave is switched or a multi-frequency configuration. For example, it is assumed that the frequency of the carrier wave of the signal light is switched between f ₁ and f ₂ . In this case, the SOA 111 is designed so that the frequency of the LO light can be switched between, for example, (f ₁ −f _d ) and (f ₂ −f _d ), and the frequency of the output light of the synthesizer 12 is further increased. according to the difference e _f between the set value f _{D_def} and f _d, it may be configured to fine tune the frequency of the LO light.
The same applies when the signal light includes carrier waves having a plurality of frequencies.

  In addition, the configuration of the coherent optical receiver and the materials used can be changed as appropriate.

  A part or all of the above-described embodiment can be described as in the following supplementary notes, but is not limited thereto.

(Supplementary Note 1) A local oscillation light output unit that outputs local oscillation light, a synthesis unit that combines the local oscillation light and the received signal light, and outputs a combined signal light, and the combined signal output by the synthesis unit An optical converter that converts light into an electrical signal, outputs an in-phase component signal and a quadrature component signal of the electrical signal, and converts the in-phase component and quadrature component signals output by the optical converter into discrete signals An output A / D converter, a digital signal processor for obtaining a frequency difference between the local oscillation light and the received signal light from the discrete signals of the in-phase component and the quadrature component output by the A / D converter, and the digital A frequency control unit that controls the frequency of the local oscillation light output from the local oscillation light output unit based on an error between the frequency difference obtained by the signal processing unit and a predetermined value, and the local oscillation light output unit Means that multiple resonators with different optical path lengths Connected multiple resonators, a plurality of resonator control units that are provided in each of the resonators and change the resonance wavelength of the resonators, and a supply unit that supplies light to the multiple resonators, And the frequency control unit controls the frequency of the local oscillation light so as to reduce the error by controlling the power supplied to the resonator control unit.

(Supplementary note 2) The coherent optical receiver according to supplementary note 1, wherein the frequency control unit increases or decreases power supplied to the plurality of resonator control units by the same amount.

(Supplementary Note 3) A reception method performed by an apparatus including a local oscillation light output unit, a synthesis unit, a light conversion unit, an A / D conversion unit, a digital signal processing unit, and a frequency control unit, The local oscillation light output unit outputs a local oscillation light, and the combining unit combines the local oscillation light and the received signal light, and outputs a combined signal light, An optical conversion step in which an optical conversion unit converts the combined signal light output from the combining unit into an electric signal, and outputs an in-phase component signal and a quadrature component signal of the electric signal; and the A / D conversion unit A / D conversion step of converting the signal of the in-phase component and the quadrature component output from the light conversion unit into a discrete signal and outputting the signal, and the in-phase component output from the A / D conversion unit by the digital signal processing unit And the frequency of the local oscillation light and the received signal light from the discrete signal of the orthogonal component A digital signal processing step for obtaining a difference, and a frequency of the local oscillation light output from the local oscillation light output unit based on an error between the frequency difference obtained by the digital signal processing unit and a predetermined value by the frequency control unit The local oscillation light output unit is provided in each of the multiple resonators in which a plurality of resonators having different optical path lengths are optically connected and the resonator, and the resonance A plurality of resonator control units that change the resonance wavelength of the resonator, and a supply unit that supplies light to the multiple resonators, and the frequency control unit controls power supplied to the resonator control unit. Accordingly, the frequency of the local oscillation light is controlled so as to reduce the error.

1 Coherent Optical Receiver 11 Wavelength Tunable Light Source 111 SOA
112, 113, 114 Ring resonator 115 PLC substrate 116 High reflection film 117a Laser input / output side waveguide 117b, 117c Waveguide 117d Laser reflection side waveguide 118a, 118b, 118c TO phase shifter 119 Multiple optical resonator 12 Synthesizer 13 Optical receiving unit 14 A / D conversion unit 15 Digital signal processing unit 16 Frequency FB control unit 161 Control unit 162 Storage unit 163 Power supply unit

Claims (2)

A local oscillation light output section for outputting local oscillation light;
A combining unit that combines the local oscillation light and the received signal light and outputs the combined signal light;
An optical conversion unit that converts the combined signal light output by the combining unit into an electrical signal and outputs a signal of an in-phase component and a signal of a quadrature component of the electrical signal;
An A / D converter that converts the in-phase and quadrature components output from the optical converter into discrete signals and outputs the discrete signals;
A digital signal processing unit for obtaining a frequency difference between the local oscillation light and the reception signal light from the discrete signals of the in-phase component and the quadrature component output by the A / D conversion unit;
A frequency control unit for controlling the frequency of the local oscillation light output from the local oscillation light output unit based on an error between the frequency difference obtained by the digital signal processing unit and a predetermined value;
With
The local oscillation light output unit is provided in each of the multiple resonators in which a plurality of resonators having different optical path lengths are optically coupled and the plurality of resonators, and changes the resonance wavelength of the plurality of resonators. A plurality of resonator control units, and a supply unit that supplies light to the multiple resonators,
Wherein the frequency control unit, the power supplied to the plurality of resonators control unit, by increasing or decreasing by the same amount for each of the resonator controller, the local oscillator light so as to reduce the error A coherent optical receiver characterized by controlling a frequency. A reception method performed by an apparatus including a local oscillation light output unit, a synthesis unit, an optical conversion unit, an A / D conversion unit, a digital signal processing unit, and a frequency control unit,
The local oscillation light output section outputs a local oscillation light, and a local oscillation light output step;
The combining unit combines the local oscillation light and the received signal light, and outputs a combined signal light;
An optical conversion step in which the optical conversion unit converts the combined signal light output from the combining unit into an electric signal, and outputs an in-phase component signal and a quadrature component signal of the electric signal;
The A / D conversion unit converts the in-phase component and quadrature component signals output from the light conversion unit into discrete signals and outputs the discrete signals; and
A digital signal processing step in which the digital signal processing unit obtains a frequency difference between the local oscillation light and the reception signal light from the discrete signals of the in-phase component and the quadrature component output by the A / D conversion unit;
The frequency control unit controls the frequency of the local oscillation light output from the local oscillation light output unit based on an error between the frequency difference obtained by the digital signal processing unit and a predetermined value; and
With
The local oscillation light output unit is provided in each of the multiple resonators in which a plurality of resonators having different optical path lengths are optically coupled and the plurality of resonators, and changes the resonance wavelength of the plurality of resonators. A plurality of resonator control units, and a supply unit that supplies light to the multiple resonators,
Wherein the frequency control unit, the power supplied to the plurality of resonators control unit, by increasing or decreasing by the same amount for each of the resonator controller, the local oscillator light so as to reduce the error A receiving method characterized by controlling a frequency.

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