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Article

Phase Noise Cancellation in Coherent Communication Systems Using a Radio Frequency Pilot Tone

by
Tianhua Xu
1,2,3,*,
Cenqin Jin
2,
Shuqing Zhang
4,*,
Gunnar Jacobsen
5,6,
Sergei Popov
6,
Mark Leeson
2 and
Tiegen Liu
1
1
Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Technology (MoE), School of Precision Instruments and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
2
School of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
3
Optical Networks Group, University College London, London WC1E 7JE, UK
4
Department of Optical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
5
NETLAB, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, SE-16440 Stockholm, Sweden
6
Optics and Photonics Group, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-16440 Stockholm, Sweden
*
Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Appl. Sci. 2019, 9(21), 4717; https://doi.org/10.3390/app9214717
Submission received: 26 September 2019 / Revised: 31 October 2019 / Accepted: 3 November 2019 / Published: 5 November 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical Communications and Networking: Prospects in Industrial Applications)
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<p>Block diagram of coherent transmission system and equalization-enhanced phase noise (EEPN). <span class="html-italic">ϕ<sub>Tx</sub></span>: Tx laser phase noise (LPN), <span class="html-italic">ϕ<sub>LO</sub></span>: LO LPN, ADCs: analogue-to-digital converters.</p> "> Figure 2
<p>Block diagram of the one-tap normalized least-mean-square (NLMS) carrier phase recovery (CPR).</p> "> Figure 3
<p>The optimal step size parameter in the NLMS CPR for various effective linewidths.</p> "> Figure 4
<p>Schematic of the differential phase detection.</p> "> Figure 5
<p>High-speed coherent communication system with an orthogonally-polarized RF pilot tone.</p> "> Figure 6
<p>Phase noise cancellation (PNC) results of the 2000 km coherent transmission system (the one-tap NLMS CPR). Ideal: linewidth of both Tx and LO lasers is 0 Hz. w/o: without, w/: with. (<b>a</b>) Transmitter: 170 MHz, local oscillator: 0 Hz; (<b>b</b>) Transmitter = local oscillator: 5 MHz.</p> "> Figure 7
<p>PNC results of the 2000 km coherent transmission system (DPD CPR). Ideal: linewidth of both Tx and LO lasers are 0 Hz. (<b>a</b>) Transmitter: 170 MHz, local oscillator: 0 Hz; (<b>b</b>) Transmitter = local oscillator: 5 MHz.</p> "> Figure 8
<p>PNC performance of the 2000 km coherent transmission systems with and without PMD, when the NLMS-CPR is applied. Ideal: linewidth of both Tx and LO lasers are 0 Hz. (<b>a</b>) Transmitter: 170 MHz, local oscillator: 0 Hz; (<b>b</b>) Transmitter = local oscillator: 5 MHz.</p> ">
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This work is performed for the compensation of the laser phase noise (LPN) and the equalization enhanced phase noise (EEPN) in high-capacity, long-haul, coherent optical fiber networks.

Abstract

Long-haul optical fiber communication employing digital signal processing (DSP)-based dispersion compensation can be distorted by the phenomenon of equalization-enhanced phase noise (EEPN), due to the reciprocities between the dispersion compensation unit and the local oscillator (LO) laser phase noise (LPN). The impact of EEPN scales increases with the increase of the fiber dispersion, laser linewidths, symbol rates, signal bandwidths, and the order of modulation formats. In this work, the phase noise cancellation (PNC) employing a radio frequency (RF) pilot tone in coherent optical transmission systems has been investigated. A 28-Gsym/s QPSK optical transmission system with a significant EEPN has been implemented, where the carrier phase recovery (CPR) was realized using the one-tap normalized least-mean-square (NLMS) estimation and the differential phase detection (DPD), respectively. It is shown that the RF pilot tone can entirely eliminate the LPN and efficiently suppress the EEPN when it is applied prior to the CPR.

1. Introduction

Long-haul optical communication is seriously deteriorated by transmission impairments, e.g., chromatic dispersion (CD), polarization mode dispersion (PMD), laser phase noise (LPN), and Kerr fiber nonlinearities [1,2]. The combination of coherent detection, digital signal processing (DSP), and advanced modulation formats offers a very promising solution for long-haul, high-capacity optical transmission, to offer great capabilities and flexibilities in the design, deployment, and operation of core telecommunication networks [3,4,5]. In the reported phase noise cancellation (PNC) methods, the radio frequency (RF) pilot tone scheme was verified to be an efficient approach to remove laser phase fluctuations [6,7,8,9]. However, these works only studied the behaviors of RF pilot tones in short-reach systems, where the enhancement effect of fiber dispersion on the LPN was neglected [10,11]. Actually, due to the interplay between the electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) module and the LPN from the local oscillator (LO), a phenomenon of equalization enhanced phase noise (EEPN) is induced and plays a significant role in the carrier phase recovery (CPR) in high-capacity optical communication systems [10,11,12,13,14,15,16]. However, so far, no DSP-based CPR has been developed to effectively compensate for EEPN [16,17,18]. Therefore, it will be of great significance to study the suppression of LPN and EEPN using an RF pilot tone scheme.
In this work, the performance of an orthogonally polarized RF pilot tone scheme is investigated for eliminating both the LPN and the EEPN in long-haul optical transmission systems. A 28-Gsym/s quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) system is numerically implemented, where the CPR is realized using a one-tap normalized least mean square (NLMS) estimation and a differential phase detection (DPD) scheme, respectively [19,20,21]. The results show that the LPN can be fully removed and the EEPN can also be effectively suppressed, when the RF pilot tone scheme is applied prior to the CPR.

2. EEPN in Optical Communication Systems

Figure 1 describes the block diagram of a long-haul, coherent optical communication system with EDC and CPR. The LPN from the transmitter (Tx) laser passes through the optical fiber and the dispersion compensation unit, and thus the net CD experienced by the Tx LPN approaches zero. By contrast, the LO LPN goes only through the dispersion compensation unit. Consequently, the LO LPN interplays with the dispersion compensation component in EDC and the interactions will degrade the performance of the optical communication system. This effect is called EEPN [10,11,12,13].
The variance of the EEPN distortion will increase with fiber dispersion, local oscillator laser linewidth, and signal symbol rate. The noise variance of EEPN can be written as follows [10,19]:
σ E E P N 2 = π λ 2 2 c ⋅ D ⋅ L ⋅ Δ f L O T S ,
where λ is the central wavelength of the optical carrier, c is the speed of the light in vacuum, L is the length, D is the CD coefficient of the fiber, TS is the symbol period of the signal, and ΔfLO is the 3-dB linewidth of the LO laser.
It is noted that the EEPN evaluation in Equation (1) only works for the static time-domain and frequency-domain EDCs, which involve no phase noise compensation functions [22,23].

3. CPR Using One-Tap NLMS

A one-tap NLMS filter could be effectively applied in the CPR [20], and its tap weight w(k) is expressed using the following equations:
w ( k + 1 ) = w ( k ) + μ | x ( k ) | 2 x * ( k ) e ( k ) ,
e ( k ) = d ( k ) − w ( k ) ⋅ x ( k ) ,
where x(k) is the input signal, k is the symbol index, d(k) is the desired symbol, e(k) is the error between the output and the desired symbols, and μ represents a parameter of the step size.
The schematic of the NLMS CPR is illustrated in Figure 2, which can actually be implemented in a feed-forward structure and can be realized in parallel in the field programmable gate array (FPGA) circuits for a real-time operation [4].
Similar to the definition of the Tx and the LO, a concept of effective linewidth ΔfEff is employed here to describe the total phase noise in coherent transmission systems considering EEPN [17,19]:
Δ f E f f ≈ σ T x 2 + σ L O 2 + σ E E P N 2 2 π T S
σ T x 2 = 2 π Δ f T x ⋅ T S
σ L O 2 = 2 π Δ f L O ⋅ T S
where σ T x 2 and σ L O 2 are the LPN variance of the Tx and LO lasers, respectively, and ΔfTx is the 3-dB linewidth of the Tx laser.
It has been established that the step size μ can be optimized to enhance the performance of NLMS CPR [19]. Therefore, it is significant to find the optimal step size for NLMS CPR, when the EEPN is considered in coherent optical communication systems. Figure 3 shows the optimal step size parameter for various effective linewidths in the 28-Gsym/s QPSK system, applicable to the time-domain and the frequency-domain static dispersion equalizations [22,23]. In all numerical simulations in this paper, the NLMS algorithm is operated with its corresponding optimal value of the step size.

4. Differential Carrier Phase Recovery

Differential phase detection (DPD) can also be employed for recovering the carrier phase in coherent communication systems. In the DPD scheme, signal data are encoded in and extracted from the phase differences between consecutive transmitted signal symbols [21]. For instance, the phase information of the k-th symbol can be extracted according to the phase difference between the k-th and the (k + 1)-th symbols. Therefore, the CPR error is determined by the phase fluctuation between the k-th and the (k + 1)-th symbols within a symbol period [19]. It is noted that DPD does not require additional computations such as the n-power, the averaging, and the phase unwrapping, compared to other CPR methods [20,24,25,26]. Therefore, it can be easily implemented in DSP hardware for a real-time operation. The block diagram of DPD CPR is provided in Figure 4.

5. Transmission Setup with RF Pilot Tone Scheme

Figure 5 depicts a 28-Gsym/s QPSK coherent optical fiber transmission system using an RF pilot tone orthogonally polarized against the transmitted signals. The electrical data were converted into 28-Gsym/s QPSK signals using an in-phase and quadrature (I-Q) optical modulator. The modulated signals occupied one polarization state, and the RF pilot tone was transmitted in the orthogonal polarization state. The signals and the RF pilot tone are integrated into the fiber via a polarization beam combiner (PBC). At the receiver side, both the received signals and the RF pilot tone are mixed with the LO laser, respectively, and are then detected by balanced photodiodes after the 90° hybrid. After that, both the received signals and the RF pilot tone are digitized using 8-bit analogue-to-digital converters (ADCs) at 56 Gsym/s and are then equalized using the EDC module. The signals are further multiplied with a conjugate of the processed RF pilot tone to suppress the impact of both LPN and EEPN. The central wavelengths of both the transmitter and the local oscillator lasers are 1553.6 nm, and the fiber dispersion coefficient is 16 ps⋅nm−1 km−1. Here, we have neglected fiber attenuation, PMD, and Kerr nonlinearities [27,28]. The EDC is implemented in the frequency domain [23]. The CPR is performed using the one-tap NLMS and DPD methods, respectively.

6. Results and Analyses

Figure 6 shows the results of PNC using the RF pilot tone in a 2000 km coherent communication system, where the CPR is realized using the NLMS algorithm. In Figure 6a, the effective linewidth is 170 MHz and there is no EEPN, since the linewidth of the transmitter laser is 170 MHz and the linewidth of the LO laser is 0 Hz. It is found that both the Tx and the LO LPN can be entirely suppressed. In Figure 6b, the linewidths of both the Tx and the LO lasers are 5 MHz. According to Equations (1) and (4), the EEPN is quite significant in such a case, and the effective linewidth is the same (170 MHz) as that in Figure 6a. It is found in Figure 6b that the BER performance improves considerably (around half an order of magnitude in the BER floor, from 8 × 10−4 to 3 × 10−4) using the RF pilot tone, compared to the case of NLMS CPR only. The results in Figure 6a,b demonstrate the efficiency of the RF pilot tone in compensating for both LPN and EEPN. It can be found that the use of RF pilot tone can entirely mitigate the LPN from both the Tx and the LO lasers. However, it cannot fully compensate for the EEPN in optical fiber transmission systems since the EEPN actually represents a complicated integration of the phase, the amplitude, and the time jitter noise [10,12,16,29].
When the CPR is implemented using DPD, the results of the PNC using the RF pilot tone in the same 2000 km coherent system are illustrated in Figure 7. In Figure 7a, the linewidth of the transmitter laser is 170 MHz and the linewidth of the LO laser is 0 Hz, representing an absence of EEPN. It is found that the full suppression of LPN can be performed with the use of the RF pilot tone, compared to the scheme of DPD only. In Figure 7b, the linewidths of both the transmitter and local oscillator lasers are 5 MHz, so that the EEPN is significant again (with an effective linewidth of 170 MHz). Similar to Figure 6b, a considerable improvement of BER performance is also achieved with half an order of magnitude in the BER floor (from 6.5 × 10−4 to 1.5 × 10−4), when the RF pilot tone scheme is applied prior to the DPD.

7. Discussions

It has to be clarified that the use of the RF pilot tone for the PNC in this work has occupied one polarization state in the fiber, since here we aim to investigate and discuss the efficiency of the use of an RF pilot tone for PNC in a simplified transceiver structure. In fact, the RF pilot tone can also be transmitted using the same polarization state as the optical data signals, which requires a more complicated implementation to perform the generation and recovery of the RF pilot tone [7,30,31]. In such systems, a pilot-carrier vector modulation (PCVM) scheme has been applied, where the transverse magnetic (TM) component is loaded with the signal data in X-polarization and the transverse electric (TE) component is employed to carry both the signal data in Y-polarization and the RF pilot tone [7]. It was reported that the PNC in such PCVM transmission schemes can also provide a good performance for an effective linewidth of up to 30 MHz [7,31]. The performance comparison between such PCVM transmission scheme and our proposed RF pilot tone-PNC scheme will be investigated in future work. In addition, for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) optical transmission systems it will be straightforward to employ one subcarrier as the RF pilot tone within the OFDM spectrum to remove the influence of laser phase noise and EEPN [32].
To study the impact of PMD on the proposed RF pilot tone PNC scheme, numerical simulations using the same 28-Gsym/s QPSK coherent transmission setup have been implemented with a PMD coefficient of 0.1 p s / k m . The differential group delay (DGD) and the random rotations between the transmitted data and the RF pilot tone (due to effect of PMD) are mitigated using a constant modulus algorithm CMA equalizer [5,33,34]. The CPR is performed using the one-tap NLMS approach. Figure 8 shows the PNC results of the same 2000 km coherent system, with and without including the impact of PMD. Similarly, the linewidth of the Tx laser is 170 MHz and the linewidth of the LO laser is 0 Hz in Figure 8a, and the linewidths of both the Tx and the LO lasers are 5 MHz in Figure 8b. Both scenarios indicate an effective linewidth of 170 MHz, and there is no EEPN in Figure 8a. It can be clearly found that, for both transmission scenarios, the impact of PMD can be fully suppressed using the CMA equalizer and the performance of the RF pilot tone-based PNC (both with and without EEPN) will not be affected due to the introduction of PMD.

8. Conclusions

In this work, an orthogonally polarized RF pilot tone is investigated to suppress the LPN and EEPN in long-haul coherent optical fiber communication systems. A 28-Gsym/s QPSK optical transmission system is numerically implemented, where the CPR is performed using the one-tap NLMS and DPD methods, respectively. Our results demonstrate that the LPN in the communication system can be completely eliminated and the EEPN can also be effectively suppressed, when the RF pilot tone scheme is applied prior to the CPR.

Author Contributions

Theoretical analyses and numerical simulations were implemented by T.X. The paper was mainly written by T.X., C.J. wrote some parts and edited the manuscript. S.Z. and M.L. made modifications. All authors reviewed and discussed the paper.

Funding

This work is in parts supported by the EU H2020 RISE Grant DAWN4IoE (778305) and the UK EPSRC Program Grant TRANSNET (EP/R035342/1).

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1. Block diagram of coherent transmission system and equalization-enhanced phase noise (EEPN). ϕTx: Tx laser phase noise (LPN), ϕLO: LO LPN, ADCs: analogue-to-digital converters.
Figure 1. Block diagram of coherent transmission system and equalization-enhanced phase noise (EEPN). ϕTx: Tx laser phase noise (LPN), ϕLO: LO LPN, ADCs: analogue-to-digital converters.
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Figure 2. Block diagram of the one-tap normalized least-mean-square (NLMS) carrier phase recovery (CPR).
Figure 2. Block diagram of the one-tap normalized least-mean-square (NLMS) carrier phase recovery (CPR).
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Figure 3. The optimal step size parameter in the NLMS CPR for various effective linewidths.
Figure 3. The optimal step size parameter in the NLMS CPR for various effective linewidths.
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Figure 4. Schematic of the differential phase detection.
Figure 4. Schematic of the differential phase detection.
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Figure 5. High-speed coherent communication system with an orthogonally-polarized RF pilot tone.
Figure 5. High-speed coherent communication system with an orthogonally-polarized RF pilot tone.
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Figure 6. Phase noise cancellation (PNC) results of the 2000 km coherent transmission system (the one-tap NLMS CPR). Ideal: linewidth of both Tx and LO lasers is 0 Hz. w/o: without, w/: with. (a) Transmitter: 170 MHz, local oscillator: 0 Hz; (b) Transmitter = local oscillator: 5 MHz.
Figure 6. Phase noise cancellation (PNC) results of the 2000 km coherent transmission system (the one-tap NLMS CPR). Ideal: linewidth of both Tx and LO lasers is 0 Hz. w/o: without, w/: with. (a) Transmitter: 170 MHz, local oscillator: 0 Hz; (b) Transmitter = local oscillator: 5 MHz.
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Figure 7. PNC results of the 2000 km coherent transmission system (DPD CPR). Ideal: linewidth of both Tx and LO lasers are 0 Hz. (a) Transmitter: 170 MHz, local oscillator: 0 Hz; (b) Transmitter = local oscillator: 5 MHz.
Figure 7. PNC results of the 2000 km coherent transmission system (DPD CPR). Ideal: linewidth of both Tx and LO lasers are 0 Hz. (a) Transmitter: 170 MHz, local oscillator: 0 Hz; (b) Transmitter = local oscillator: 5 MHz.
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Figure 8. PNC performance of the 2000 km coherent transmission systems with and without PMD, when the NLMS-CPR is applied. Ideal: linewidth of both Tx and LO lasers are 0 Hz. (a) Transmitter: 170 MHz, local oscillator: 0 Hz; (b) Transmitter = local oscillator: 5 MHz.
Figure 8. PNC performance of the 2000 km coherent transmission systems with and without PMD, when the NLMS-CPR is applied. Ideal: linewidth of both Tx and LO lasers are 0 Hz. (a) Transmitter: 170 MHz, local oscillator: 0 Hz; (b) Transmitter = local oscillator: 5 MHz.
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Xu, Tianhua, Cenqin Jin, Shuqing Zhang, Gunnar Jacobsen, Sergei Popov, Mark Leeson, and Tiegen Liu. 2019. "Phase Noise Cancellation in Coherent Communication Systems Using a Radio Frequency Pilot Tone" Applied Sciences 9, no. 21: 4717. https://doi.org/10.3390/app9214717

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Xu, T., Jin, C., Zhang, S., Jacobsen, G., Popov, S., Leeson, M., & Liu, T. (2019). Phase Noise Cancellation in Coherent Communication Systems Using a Radio Frequency Pilot Tone. Applied Sciences, 9(21), 4717. https://doi.org/10.3390/app9214717

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