H04B10/588

Method and apparatus for mitigating adverse effects of bonding wire of external optical modulators

An optical transceiver including a submount, a Mach-Zehnder Modulator (MZM), bonding wires, and a low pass filter type matching network is provided. The MZM includes an input port and an output port and disposed on the submount. The bonding wires are coupled to the submount and the MZM. The low pass filter type matching network is coupled to the bonding wires and is configured to absorb inductance of the bonding wires at a high frequency.

Method and apparatus for mitigating adverse effects of bonding wire of external optical modulators

An optical transceiver including a submount, a Mach-Zehnder Modulator (MZM), bonding wires, and a low pass filter type matching network is provided. The MZM includes an input port and an output port and disposed on the submount. The bonding wires are coupled to the submount and the MZM. The low pass filter type matching network is coupled to the bonding wires and is configured to absorb inductance of the bonding wires at a high frequency.

Optical transmitter, method for controlling optical modulator, and controller for optical modulator
09843396 · 2017-12-12 · ·

An optical transmitter includes an optical modulator that is driven by a driving signal, an acquisition part, and a controller. The acquisition part obtains a relationship between a fluctuation of a parameter to adjust the driving signal and a fluctuation of a state of output light from the optical modulator due to the fluctuation of the parameter. The controller controls an amplitude of the driving signal on the basis of the obtained relationship.

NESTED FEED-FORWARD OPTICAL EQUALIZATION USING AN ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATOR WITH A MULTI-SEGMENT ELECTRODE

A method and system of optical communication are provided. An optical modulator device includes a first and a second waveguide segment, and is configured to modulate an incident optical signal. A first feed-forward equalization (FFE) circuit including an inner first tap and an inner second tap, is configured to equalize the first waveguide segment. A second FFE circuit including a first inner tap and a second inner tap, is configured to equalize the second waveguide segment. An FFE recombination of the first inner tap and the second inner tap of the first and second FFE circuits, is in the electrical domain, respectively. An FFE recombination of the first and second modulation signals, operative to equalize a combination of the first second waveguide segments, is in the optical domain.

Self-calibration of pluggable optical module

Techniques are described for determining pre-compensation parameters to compensate for signal integrity degradation along a signal path. A processor generates a first digital signal and receives a second digital signal. The second digital signal is generated from an optical-to-electrical conversion of a feedback optical signal that is generated from an electrical-to-optical conversion of an electrical signal by an optical module. The processor determines the pre-compensation parameters based on the first and second digital signals.

Self-calibration of pluggable optical module

Techniques are described for determining pre-compensation parameters to compensate for signal integrity degradation along a signal path. A processor generates a first digital signal and receives a second digital signal. The second digital signal is generated from an optical-to-electrical conversion of a feedback optical signal that is generated from an electrical-to-optical conversion of an electrical signal by an optical module. The processor determines the pre-compensation parameters based on the first and second digital signals.

Method and apparatus for distortion correction in optical communication links

In some embodiments, an apparatus includes an optical transmitter module that can be electrically coupled to an electrical serializer/deserializer and a controller. The optical transmitter module can include an electrical detector that can receive an in-band signal. The electrical detector can send to the controller a first power error signal and a second power error signal based on the in-band signal. The controller can send a correction control signal to the electrical serializer/deserializer based on the first power error signal and the second power error signal such that the electrical serializer/deserializer sends a pre-emphasized signal to the optical transmitter module based on the correction control signal. In such embodiments, the first power error signal, the second power signal and the correction control signal are out-of-band signals.

OPTICAL MODULE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR OPTICAL MODULE

An optical module includes an optical modulator that performs optical modulation of transmission data, an optical modulator controller that controls the optical modulator, a memory that stores corresponding relationships between temperatures and set data with which modulation of the optical modulator is to be performed at an operating point voltage, a temperature sensor that measures a temperature in the optical module; and a setting circuit that refers the memory and searches for set data corresponding to measured temperature, and set the set data to the optical modulator controller.

Digital optical transmitter, optical communication system using the same, and digital optical transmission method
09787403 · 2017-10-10 · ·

A digital optical transmitter of the present invention comprises an optical modulator, pre-equalization factor computation means for generating transform functions for compensating waveform distortion to occur in the optical modulator, and pre-equalization signal generation means for outputting third data and fourth data after creating them by performing a pre-equalization process on first data and second data. Here, through the transform functions, the first data is added to the fourth data, in a manner depending on a characteristic of the optical modulator, and the second data is added to the third data, in a manner depending on a characteristic of the optical modulator.

Digital optical transmitter, optical communication system using the same, and digital optical transmission method
09787403 · 2017-10-10 · ·

A digital optical transmitter of the present invention comprises an optical modulator, pre-equalization factor computation means for generating transform functions for compensating waveform distortion to occur in the optical modulator, and pre-equalization signal generation means for outputting third data and fourth data after creating them by performing a pre-equalization process on first data and second data. Here, through the transform functions, the first data is added to the fourth data, in a manner depending on a characteristic of the optical modulator, and the second data is added to the third data, in a manner depending on a characteristic of the optical modulator.