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Fiber Optical Communication and Sensing Systems

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Communications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 May 2022) | Viewed by 14864

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Dr. Shiva Kumar

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Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Interests: fiber optic communication systems; photonic devices; nonlinear optics and solitons; microsphere and sensing; optical phase conjugation

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleague,

Fiber-optic systems are the backbone of communication systems, carrying most of the world’s data traffic. Fiber optics has also played a key role in sensing applications such as physical, chemical, biological, and environmental sensors. Fiber Bragg gratings have been used for dispersion compensation in communication systems as well as for various sensing applications. Fiber optical sensing technology is expected to grow significantly due to the rapid progress in optoelectronics and communication fields. The Special Issue will highlight recent advances in fiber optic communications and sensing technologies. Topics include, but not are limited to the following:

  • Coherent communication systems and digital signal processing
  • Nonlinear frequency division multiplexed (NFDM) systems and OFDM systems
  • Fiber Bragg gratings for communication and sensing
  • Physical, mechanical, acoustic, and electromagnetic sensors
  • Micro- and nano-structured fiber sensors
  • Multi-mode and multi-core fibers for communication and sensing
  • Metro, data-center, and long haul fiber optic networks
  • AI/machine learning for communication and sensing

Dr. Shiva Kumar
Guest Editor

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9 pages, 3154 KiB  
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Two-Dimensional Transmission of Four-Dimensional LDPC-Coded Modulation with Slepian Sequences for DSP-Free 40 km Metro Network Applications
by Xiao Han and Ivan B. Djordjevic
Sensors 2022, 22(5), 1815; https://doi.org/10.3390/s22051815 - 25 Feb 2022
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The growing data demands are pushing researchers to pay more attention to spectrally efficient modulation formats. The four-dimensional (4D) signal constellation modulation format has been investigated for metro networks’ applications to achieve better power efficiency. To cope with such modulation formats, the requirement [...] Read more.
The growing data demands are pushing researchers to pay more attention to spectrally efficient modulation formats. The four-dimensional (4D) signal constellation modulation format has been investigated for metro networks’ applications to achieve better power efficiency. To cope with such modulation formats, the requirement of better digital signal processing (DSP) is also increasing rapidly. More complicated DSPs bring us extra costs; thus, the DSP-free coherent receivers are also investigated because of the high-power consumption of conventional DSP-based receivers, but the transceivers upgrading also results in extra costs. In this invited paper we implement a 4-dimentional modulation format based on Slepian sequences. We applied LDPC coding and experimentally investigated the BER performance in a two-dimensional (2D) 40 km fiber link transmission and demonstrate that being error free is possible without employing the complicated DSP. We compared our proposed modulation scheme with regular 16QAM and found it outperforms 16QAM with DSP over back-to-back transmission by 3.8 dB improvement in OSNR when BER = 10−5, while over 40 km metro network communication link our proposed 4D modulation signals are still successfully transmitted, and the LDPC-coding still works properly with such a new transmission strategy. On the other hand, DSP-free transmission of LDPC-coded 16-QAM exhibits an early error floor phenomenon. Full article
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Optical OFDM Error Floor Estimation by Means of OTDR Enhanced by Front-End Optical Preamplifier
by Adriana Lipovac, Vlatko Lipovac, Mirza Hamza and Vedran Batoš
Sensors 2021, 21(21), 7303; https://doi.org/10.3390/s21217303 - 2 Nov 2021
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Optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) enables simple identification and localization of a plethora of refractive and reflective events on a fiber link, including splices, connectors and breaks, and measuring insertion/return loss. Specifically, large enough OTDR dynamic range (DR) and thus high signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) enable [...] Read more.
Optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) enables simple identification and localization of a plethora of refractive and reflective events on a fiber link, including splices, connectors and breaks, and measuring insertion/return loss. Specifically, large enough OTDR dynamic range (DR) and thus high signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) enable clear far-end visibility of longer fibers. We point out here that, under such conditions, the optical bit-error-rate (BER) floor is dominantly determined by reflective events that introduce significant return loss. This complements the OTDR legacy tests by appropriate optical BER floor estimation in the field. As high SNR implies inter-symbol interference as dominating error generating mechanism, we could apply the classical time-dispersion channel model for the optical BER floor determined by the root-mean-square (rms) delay spread of the actual fiber channel power-delay profile. However, as the high-SNR condition is not always fulfilled mostly due to insufficient DR, we propose here inserting a low-noise optical preamplifier as the OTDR front-end to reduce noise floor and amplify the backscattered signal. In order to verify the model for the exemplar test situation, we measured BER on the same fiber link to find very good matching between the measured BER floor values and the ones predicted from the OTDR trace. Full article
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Communication
Effect of Laser Parameters on Optical Stealth Transmission System Performance
by Xinmei Wang, Weifeng Mou and Huatao Zhu
Sensors 2021, 21(16), 5358; https://doi.org/10.3390/s21165358 - 9 Aug 2021
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The performance of an optical stealth transmission system based on gain-switched laser depends largely on the laser parameters. Modulation frequency, bias current, and modulation current are considered to study the covertness and bit error rate performance of the optical stealth transmission system. According [...] Read more.
The performance of an optical stealth transmission system based on gain-switched laser depends largely on the laser parameters. Modulation frequency, bias current, and modulation current are considered to study the covertness and bit error rate performance of the optical stealth transmission system. According to optical stealth carrier generation with time spreading and all-optical encoding, the stealth signals are derived. A complementary encoding scheme is adopted in the system simulation. The simulation results show that the temporal and spectral characteristics of the generated stealth signal can be changed by adjusting the bias current, modulation current, and modulation frequency. However, there is a trade-off between bit error rate performance and covertness of the stealth channel. Under the premise of error-free transmission, the bias current and modulation frequency should be reduced and the modulation current should be improved to optimize the covertness of the stealth channel. Full article
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Communication
Single-Line Bidirectional Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer for Ring Topology Optical Fiber Networks
by Chung-Yi Li, Ching-Hung Chang and Zih-Guei Lin
Sensors 2021, 21(8), 2641; https://doi.org/10.3390/s21082641 - 9 Apr 2021
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A new type of passive single-line bidirectional optical add/drop multiplexer (SBOADM) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. When the proposed SBOADM is placed as a node of a ring topology optical fiber network, the special routing function of the SBOADM can always drop down [...] Read more.
A new type of passive single-line bidirectional optical add/drop multiplexer (SBOADM) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. When the proposed SBOADM is placed as a node of a ring topology optical fiber network, the special routing function of the SBOADM can always drop down the desired downstream signals whether the signals are injected into the SBOADM in either the clockwise (CW) or counterclockwise (CCW) direction and can upload and send back the upstream signals via the reversed optical pathway of the downstream signals. Once fiber link failure occurs in the optical network, the blocked network connections can be recovered immediately by sending out the downstream signals in both the CW and CCW directions of the fiber ring. As in all passive devices, the SBOADM needs no power supply or complicated network management to achieve the bidirectional function. Thus, the proposed device is an optimal solution to enhance the stability and reliability of rapidly developed optical fiber networks. Full article
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Impact of Wind Gust on High-Speed Characteristics of Polarization Mode Dispersion in Optical Power Ground Wire Cables
by Jozef Dubovan, Jan Litvik, Daniel Benedikovic, Jarmila Mullerova, Ivan Glesk, Andrej Veselovsky and Milan Dado
Sensors 2020, 20(24), 7110; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20247110 - 11 Dec 2020
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Polarization mode dispersion is recognized as a key factor limiting optical transmission systems, particularly those fiber links that run at bit rates beyond 10 Gbps. In-line test and characterization of polarization mode dispersion are thus of critical importance to evaluate the quality of [...] Read more.
Polarization mode dispersion is recognized as a key factor limiting optical transmission systems, particularly those fiber links that run at bit rates beyond 10 Gbps. In-line test and characterization of polarization mode dispersion are thus of critical importance to evaluate the quality of installed optical fibers that are in use for high-speed signal traffics. However, polarization-based effects in optical fibers are stochastic and quite sensitive to a range of environmental changes, including optical cable movements. This, in turn, gives rise to undesired variations in light polarization that adversely impair the quality of the signal transmission in the link. In this work, we elaborate on experimental testing and theoretical analysis to asses changes of polarization mode dispersion in optical fibers that are caused by environmental variations, here wind gusts in particular. The study was performed on commercially harnessed optical fibers installed within optical power ground wire cables, taking into account different weather conditions. More specifically, we showed that changes caused by wind gusts significantly influence the differential group delay and the principal state of polarization in those optical fibers. For this, we experimentally measured a number of parameters to characterize light polarization properties. Measurements were carried out on C-band operated fiber-optic link formed by 111-km-long power ground wire cables and 88 spectral channels, with a test time step of 1 min during 12 consecutive days. Variations in differential group delay allowed for sensitive testing of environmental changes with measured maxims up to 10 ps under the worst wind conditions. Moreover, measured parameters were used in a numerical model to assess the quality of transmitted high-bit-rate optical signals as a function of wind conditions. The analysis revealed a negligible impact of wind on a 10 Gbps transmission, while substantial influence was noticed for higher bit rates up to 100 Gbps. These results show promises for efficient sensing of environmental changes and subsequent monitoring of the quality of recently used fiber-optic link infrastructures. Full article
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