modulation in optical Transmission
- modulation is used in wireless communication and with optical Transmission
- modulation help increasing the system capacity , distance and spectrul efficiency
- modulation depends on carrier signal , we can control carrier paramters based on the baseband signal
- traffic coming from client devices to be modulated called baseband signal
- paramters can be controlled in the carrier can be :
amplitude ( intensity of light wave )
frequency
phase
polarization
- in optical illusion , we are focusing on ASK , PSK , QAM
- ASK : amplitude shift key , in this type of modulation we are encoding the traffic by turning the laser on and off
- laser on , means bit 1 , laser off means bit 0 , it's very simple
- OOK ( on - off keying ) can be considered as the simple type of ASK
- OOK can be return to zero or non return to zero encoding
- PSK : phase shift key , in this type of modulation we change the carrier phase accordingly to represent the informations variation
- PSK has many types :
B-PSK
D-PSK
DQ-PSK
DP-QPSK
- third type is QAM ( quadrature amplitude modulation )
- most common type , support high spectrul efficiency , use amplitude and phase paramters to represent the informations
- we have many types of QAM:
4 QAM
16 QAM
64 QAM
- the differences is in baud rate , number of symbols and bits / symbol
- demodulation in optical called detection , we have 2 main types of detection :
direct detection
coherent detection
- direct detection is used in case we using direct intensity modulation ( OOK ) , it's simple and widely used with 2.5 , 10 Gbps systems
0 direct detection use PIN & APD to detect and demodulate the signal
- coherent detection much complex & used with 40 , 100 , 200 Gbps systems
- coherent detection used to mix the received modulated signal with local oscillator optical carrier to recover the phase and amplitude of the signal
- types of modulators :
direct
electro absorber
mach zehnder
- differences between them are in dispersion tolerance , cost & wavelength stability
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