阅读说明：本技术 一种基于增益控制的共振光通信装置及方法 (Resonant optical communication device and method based on gain control ) 是由 黄川� 崔曙光 田源明 李东旭 于 2021-09-16 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明公开了一种基于增益控制的共振光通信装置及方法,所述装置包括形成分布式共振腔的主机和从机；所述主机包括信号发生器、第一光电探测器、增益介质控制模块,以及依次设置在光束路径上的第一回复反射器、第一增益介质、第一分束器、电光调制器；所述从机包括第二光电探测器、信号处理板,以及依次设置在光束路径上的第二分束器、第二增益介质、第二回复反射器。本发明通过FPGA板控制可控泵浦源的泵浦功率,进而控制增益介质产生的增益,使通过发射端增益介质的共振光的强度都与稳定状态时的光强相同,从而有效消除回波干扰,并且接收端使用能量检测来对接收到的信号进行恢复,降低了接收端的复杂度。(The invention discloses a resonance optical communication device and a method based on gain control, wherein the device comprises a host and a slave which form a distributed resonant cavity; the host comprises a signal generator, a first photoelectric detector, a gain medium control module, a first return reflector, a first gain medium, a first beam splitter and an electro-optic modulator which are sequentially arranged on a light beam path; the slave machine comprises a second photoelectric detector, a signal processing board, and a second beam splitter, a second gain medium and a second retro-reflector which are sequentially arranged on a light beam path. The invention controls the pumping power of the controllable pumping source through the FPGA board, further controls the gain generated by the gain medium, ensures that the intensity of the resonant light passing through the gain medium at the transmitting end is the same as the light intensity in a stable state, thereby effectively eliminating echo interference, and reduces the complexity of the receiving end by recovering the received signal through energy detection at the receiving end.)

1. A resonant optical communication device based on gain control, characterized in that: comprises a master machine (1) and a slave machine (2) which form a distributed resonant cavity; the host (1) comprises a signal generator (15), a first photoelectric detector (161), a gain medium control module (162), and a first recovery reflector (11), a first gain medium (12), a first beam splitter (13) and an electro-optical modulator (14) which are sequentially arranged on a light beam path; the slave machine (2) comprises a second photoelectric detector (241), a signal processing board (242), and a second beam splitter (21), a second gain medium (22) and a second retro-reflector (23) which are arranged on a light beam path in sequence;

the signal generator (15) is used for generating a signal to be transmitted;

the first retro-reflector (11) and the second retro-reflector (23) are used for reflecting incident light according to the original incident direction; the resonant cavity of the communication device is located between the first retro-reflector (11) and the second retro-reflector (23);

the first beam splitter (13) is used for reflecting part of resonance light from the electric light modulator (14) to the first photodetector (161), performing photoelectric conversion by the first photodetector (161) and transmitting the converted light to the gain medium control module (162), and transmitting the split transmitted light to the first gain medium (12);

the electro-optical modulator (14) is used for modulating a signal to be transmitted from the signal generator (15) onto resonant light in the cavity and then transmitting the signal to the slave machine (2);

the gain medium control module (162) is used for controlling the gain generated by the first gain medium (12) according to the received signal.

2. A resonant optical communication device based on gain control as set forth in claim 1, wherein: the electro-optical modulator is a free space type amplitude electro-optical modulator, and information is represented by changing the size of output light intensity according to the proportional relation between input voltage and half-wave voltage of the modulator.

3. A resonant optical communication device based on gain control as set forth in claim 1, wherein: the second beam splitter (21) is used for reflecting part of the resonance light from the main machine to the second photoelectric detector (241), and the part of the resonance light is subjected to photoelectric conversion by the second photoelectric detector (241) and then transmitted to the signal processing board (242).

4. A resonant optical communication device based on gain control as set forth in claim 1, wherein: the gain medium control module (162) comprises an FPGA board, a controllable pumping source and an ADC module, wherein the input end of the FPGA board is connected with the first photoelectric detector (161) through the ADC module, and the output end of the FPGA board is connected with the controllable pumping source and is used for controlling the pumping power of the controllable pumping source according to a received signal so as to control the gain generated by the first gain medium (12); the gain medium control module (162) further comprises a register connected with the FPGA board.

5. A resonant optical communication device based on gain control as set forth in claim 1, wherein: the first retro-reflector (11), the first gain medium (12), the first beam splitter (13), the electro-optic modulator (14), the second beam splitter (21), the second gain medium (22) and the second retro-reflector (23) are sequentially arranged from left to right, and the centers of the first retro-reflector (11), the first gain medium (12), the first beam splitter (13), the electro-optic modulator (14), the second beam splitter (21), the second gain medium (22) and the second retro-reflector (23) are located on the same horizontal straight line.

6. A resonance optical communication method based on gain control, which adopts the device of any one of claims 1-5, characterized in that: the method comprises the following steps:

s1, when light beams in a resonant cavity reach a stable state, partial resonant light in the resonant cavity is reflected to a first photoelectric detector (161) through a first beam splitter (13), the first photoelectric detector converts the partial resonant light into an analog signal and then inputs the analog signal into a gain medium control module (162) through an ADC (analog-to-digital converter) module, and an FPGA (field programmable gate array) board on the gain medium control module (162) receives the current intensity of the signalCalculating the intensity of the intracavity resonant light at the momentAnd record it toIn a register, wherein:

wherein the content of the first and second substances,is a photoelectric conversion factor, and is characterized in that,is the area of the receiving aperture of the photodetector;

s2, when the host (1) and the slave (2) communicate, the signal generator (15) inputs the signal to be transmitted into the electro-optical modulator (14), and when the output light arrives at the host (1) again after going back and forth in the resonant cavity for one circle, the host (1) calculates the first time in turn according to the step S1Intensity of resonance light corresponding to each symbol：

Wherein the content of the first and second substances,is as followsThe current intensity corresponding to each of the symbols,is the total number of symbols in a round-trip period;

s3 FPGA boardAccording to the firstResonant light intensity of individual symbolIntensity of light in resonance with the stability of the registerRatio ofCalculating out the firstIntensity of resonance light corresponding to each symbolReach steady resonance light intensityRequired pump powerAnd further controlling the controllable pump source to generate corresponding pump power so that the resonant light passing through the first gain medium (12) reaches a steady state:

wherein the content of the first and second substances,the cross-sectional area of the gain medium,pumps being controllable pump sourcesThe efficiency of the process is improved, and the efficiency is improved,in order to achieve a saturated light intensity of the gain medium,the calculation formula of (a) is as follows:

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7. a method of resonant optical communication based on gain control as claimed in claim 6, wherein: the pump power of the controllable pump source is controlled, so that the intensity of the resonant light input into the electro-optical modulator (14) is constant after the resonant light passing through the first gain medium (12) reaches a steady stateAfter the intensity of the resonance light is stable, the host computer communicates with the slave computer, and the communication process includes:

a1, suppose to haveGenerates information to be sent asThen, according to the working principle of the electro-optical modulator (14), there will be light in the output lightThe different light intensities are recorded asThe output light reaches the slave (2) after propagating in the cavity;

a2, in the slave (2), second beam splitter(21) Part of the resonant light in the cavity is reflected to the second photoelectric detector (241), the second photoelectric detector (241) converts the resonant light into an analog signal, and the analog signal is input into the signal processing board (242) through the ADC device, and the intensity isWill be converted to have current intensity after the above treatmentThe calculation formula of the signal (c) is as follows:

wherein the content of the first and second substances,the single pass loss for light propagating in the cavity;

a3, according toThe different current intensities are calculated as followsAnd (3) seed decision threshold:

wherein the content of the first and second substances,is as followsA judgment threshold corresponding to the seed information;

a4, signal stationThe tidying plate (242) according to thisThe decision threshold is used for recovering the signal transmitted by the host (1) by detecting the current intensity of the received signal as follows:

if it is in the received signalCurrent intensity corresponding to each symbolThen the symbol is decided as。

Technical Field

The present invention relates to resonant optical communication, and more particularly, to a resonant optical communication apparatus and method based on gain control.

Background

In order to meet the demand of future communication development and realize high-speed broadband wireless communication, new spectrum resources must be developed to a high frequency band. Since the wavelength of light is short and has a frequency of several hundred THz, using light as a carrier of wireless communication will certainly become an important technical means for future wireless communication. The technology for realizing wireless communication by using the distributed optical resonant cavity (namely, resonant cavity) to form stable light beams and using the stable light beams as a carrier is a new wireless optical communication technology, has higher transmission rate and better mobility, and is a technology capable of breaking through the bottleneck of development of the wireless optical communication technology.

However, since the light beam reciprocates in the resonant cavity (resonant cavity), directly modulating a signal onto the light beam inevitably causes a very serious problem of intra-cavity echo interference, that is, the light beam carrying the modulated signal reciprocates in the resonant cavity (resonant cavity), which affects the subsequent communication process.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to overcome the defects of the prior art and provide a resonant optical communication device and method based on gain control, wherein the pumping power of a controllable pumping source is controlled through an FPGA (field programmable gate array) board, so that the gain generated by a gain medium is controlled, the intensity of resonant light passing through a gain medium at a transmitting end is the same as the light intensity in a stable state, echo interference is effectively eliminated, a receiving end recovers received signals by using energy detection, and the complexity of the receiving end is reduced.

The purpose of the invention is realized by the following technical scheme: a resonance optical communication device based on gain control comprises a host and a slave which form a distributed resonant cavity; the host comprises a signal generator, a first photoelectric detector, a gain medium control module, a first return reflector, a first gain medium, a first beam splitter and an electro-optic modulator which are sequentially arranged on a light beam path; the slave machine comprises a second photoelectric detector, a signal processing board, and a second beam splitter, a second gain medium and a second retro-reflector which are sequentially arranged on a light beam path;

the signal generator is used for generating a signal to be transmitted;

the first and second retro-reflectors are used for reflecting incident light according to the original incident direction; a resonant cavity of the communication device is positioned between the first retro-reflector and the second retro-reflector;

the first beam splitter is used for reflecting part of resonance light from the electro-optic modulator in the cavity to the first photoelectric detector, performing photoelectric conversion by the first photoelectric detector and transmitting the converted light to the gain medium control module, and transmitting the transmitted light obtained by beam splitting to the first gain medium;

the electro-optical modulator is used for modulating a signal to be transmitted from the signal generator onto the resonant light in the cavity and then transmitting the modulated signal to the slave;

and the gain medium control module is used for controlling the gain generated by the first gain medium according to the received signal.

Furthermore, the electro-optical modulator is a free space type amplitude electro-optical modulator, and information is represented by changing the size of output light intensity according to the proportional relation between the input voltage and the half-wave voltage of the modulator.

Furthermore, the second beam splitter is used for reflecting part of the resonant light from the host machine in the cavity to the second photoelectric detector, and the part of the resonant light is subjected to photoelectric conversion by the second photoelectric detector and then is transmitted to the signal processing board.

Furthermore, the gain medium control module comprises an FPGA board, a controllable pump source and an ADC module, wherein an input end of the FPGA board is connected to the first photodetector through the ADC module, and an output end of the FPGA board is connected to the controllable pump source, and is configured to control the magnitude of the pump power of the controllable pump source according to the received signal, so as to control the gain generated by the first gain medium. The gain medium control module also comprises a register connected with the FPGA board.

Further, the first retro-reflector, the first gain medium, the first beam splitter, the electro-optic modulator, the second beam splitter, the second gain medium and the second retro-reflector are sequentially arranged from left to right, and centers of the first retro-reflector, the first gain medium, the first beam splitter, the electro-optic modulator, the second beam splitter, the second gain medium and the second retro-reflector are located on the same horizontal straight line.

A resonance optical communication method based on gain control comprises the following steps:

s1, when light beams in a resonant cavity reach a stable state, partial resonant light in the cavity is reflected to a first photoelectric detector through a first beam splitter, the first photoelectric detector converts the partial resonant light into an analog signal and then inputs the analog signal into a gain medium control module through an ADC (analog-to-digital converter) module, and an FPGA (field programmable gate array) board on the gain medium control module receives the current intensity of the signalCalculating the intensity of the intracavity resonant light at the momentAnd recording it into a register, wherein:

wherein the content of the first and second substances,is a photoelectric conversion factor, and is characterized in that,is the area of the receiving aperture of the photodetector;

s2, when the host and the slave are communicating, the signal generator inputs the signal to be sent into the electro-optical modulator, when the output light arrives at the host again after going back and forth in the resonant cavity, the host calculates the first time in turn according to the step S1Intensity of resonance light corresponding to each symbol：

Wherein the content of the first and second substances,is as followsThe current intensity corresponding to each of the symbols,is the total number of symbols in a round-trip period;

s3, FPGA board according toResonant light intensity of individual symbolIntensity of light in resonance with the stability of the registerRatio ofCalculating out the firstIntensity of resonance light corresponding to each symbolReach steady resonance light intensityRequired pump powerAnd further controlling the controllable pump source to generate corresponding pump power so that the resonant light passing through the first gain medium reaches a steady state:

wherein the content of the first and second substances,the cross-sectional area of the gain medium,in order to control the pumping efficiency of the pump source,in order to achieve a saturated light intensity of the gain medium,the calculation formula of (a) is as follows:

。

by controlling the pumping power of the controllable pumping source, the intensity of the resonant light input into the electro-optical modulator is constant after the resonant light passing through the first gain medium reaches a steady stateAfter the intensity of the resonance light is stable, the host computer communicates with the slave computer, and the communication process includes:

a1, suppose to haveGenerates information to be sent asThere will also be light in the output light according to the working principle of the electro-optical modulatorThe different light intensities are recorded asThe output light reaches the slave after propagating in the cavity;

a2, in the slave, the second beam splitter reflects part of the resonant light in the cavity to the second photodetector, the second photodetector converts the resonant light into an analog signal, and the analog signal is input into the signal processing board through the ADC device, and the intensity isWill be converted to have current intensity after the above treatmentThe calculation formula of the signal (c) is as follows:

wherein the content of the first and second substances,the single pass loss for light propagating in the cavity;

a3, according toThe different current intensities are calculated as followsAnd (3) seed decision threshold:

wherein the content of the first and second substances,is as followsA judgment threshold corresponding to the seed information;

a4, signal processing board based on thisThe decision threshold is used for recovering the signal transmitted by the host by detecting the current intensity of the received signal as follows:

if it is in the received signalCurrent intensity corresponding to each symbolThen the symbol is decided as。

The invention has the beneficial effects that: the invention controls the pumping power of the controllable pumping source through the FPGA board, further controls the gain generated by the gain medium, ensures that the intensity of the resonant light passing through the gain medium at the transmitting end is the same as the light intensity in a stable state, thereby effectively eliminating echo interference, and reduces the complexity of the receiving end by recovering the received signal through energy detection at the receiving end.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the apparatus of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a flow chart of a method of the present invention;

the system comprises a host 1, a first recovery reflector 11, a first gain medium 12, a first beam splitter 13, an electro-optical modulator 14, a signal generator 15, a first photoelectric detector 161, a gain medium control module 162, a slave 2, a second beam splitter 21, a second gain medium 22, a second recovery reflector 23, a second photoelectric detector 241 and a second photoelectric detector 242.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions of the present invention are further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the scope of the present invention is not limited to the following.

As shown in fig. 1, a resonant optical communication device based on gain control includes a master 1 and a slave 2 forming a distributed resonant cavity; the host 1 comprises a signal generator 15, a first photodetector 161, a gain medium control module 162, and a first recovery reflector 11, a first gain medium 12, a first beam splitter 13, and an electro-optical modulator 14, which are sequentially arranged on a light beam path; the slave machine 2 comprises a second photoelectric detector 241, a signal processing board 242, and a second beam splitter 21, a second gain medium 22 and a second retro-reflector 23 which are sequentially arranged on a light beam path;

the signal generator 15 is configured to generate a signal to be transmitted;

the first retro-reflector 11 and the second retro-reflector 23 are used for reflecting incident light according to an original incident direction; the resonant cavity of the communication device is located between the first retro-reflector 11 and the second retro-reflector 23;

the first beam splitter 13 is configured to reflect a part of the resonant light from the electro-optical modulator 14 in the cavity to the first photodetector 161, perform photoelectric conversion by the first photodetector 161, and transmit the converted light to the gain medium control module 162, and transmit the split transmitted light to the first gain medium 12;

the electro-optical modulator 14 is configured to modulate a signal to be transmitted from the signal generator 15 onto intracavity resonance light (resonance light transmitted from the first gain medium 12 through the first beam splitter 13 in the cavity) and transmit the modulated signal to the slave 2;

the gain medium control module 162 is configured to control the gain generated by the first gain medium 12 according to the received signal.

In the embodiment of the application, when the light from the slave to the master passes through the electro-optical modulator, the signal generator does not have an electric signal input, and thus the electro-optical modulator does not function. While light from the master to the slave also needs to pass through the second optical splitter. The film on the front side of the beam splitter is different from the film on the back side, and when light impinges on the film of the beam splitter from the front side, the light is split into two parts, reflected and transmitted. And when light strikes the film of the beam splitter from the back, the light is completely transmitted. In fig. 1, the smooth side of the beam splitter represents the front side, and the slashed side represents the back side.

In the embodiment of the present application, the resonance light from the electro-optical modulator 14 passes through the first beam splitter 13 to obtain a beam of transmission light and a beam of reflection light, the transmission light is transmitted to the first gain medium 12, and the reflection light is transmitted to the first photodetector 161; the first beam splitter 13 serves to reflect part of the resonant light from the electro-optic modulator 14 within the cavity into the first photodetector 161.

In the embodiment of the application, the electro-optical modulator is a free space type amplitude electro-optical modulator, and information is represented by changing the magnitude of output light intensity according to the proportional relation between input voltage and half-wave voltage of the modulator.

In the embodiment of the present application, the second beam splitter is configured to reflect a part of the resonant light from the host in the cavity to the second photodetector 241, and the reflected light is subjected to photoelectric conversion by the second photodetector 241 and then transmitted to the signal processing board 242;

in this embodiment, after passing through the second optical beam splitter 21, a part of the resonant light from the host obtains a beam of transmitted light and a beam of reflected light, the transmitted light is transmitted to the second retro-reflector 23 through the second gain medium 22, and the reflected light is transmitted to the second photodetector 241; the second beam splitter reflects part of the resonant light from the host in the cavity into the second photodetector 241.

In an embodiment of the present application, the gain medium control module 162 includes an FPGA board, a controllable pump source, and an ADC module, where an input end of the FPGA board is connected to the first photodetector 161 through the ADC module, and an output end of the FPGA board is connected to the controllable pump source, and is configured to control a pumping power of the controllable pump source according to a received signal, so as to control a gain generated by the first gain medium 12. The gain medium control module 162 further includes a register connected to the FPGA board.

In the embodiment of the present application, the first retro-reflector 11, the first gain medium 12, the first beam splitter 13, the electro-optic modulator 14, the second beam splitter 21, the second gain medium 22, and the second retro-reflector 23 are sequentially arranged from left to right, and centers of the first retro-reflector 11, the first gain medium 12, the first beam splitter 13, the electro-optic modulator 14, the second beam splitter 21, the second gain medium 22, and the second retro-reflector 23 are located on the same horizontal straight line.

As shown in fig. 2, a resonant optical communication method based on gain control includes the following steps:

s1, when light beams in a resonant cavity reach a stable state, partial resonant light in the resonant cavity is reflected to a first photoelectric detector 161 through a first beam splitter 13, the first photoelectric detector converts the partial resonant light into an analog signal and inputs the analog signal into a gain medium control module 162 through an ADC (analog-to-digital converter) module, and an FPGA (field programmable gate array) board on the gain medium control module 162 receives the current intensity of the signalCalculating the intensity of the intracavity resonant light at the momentAnd recording it into a register, wherein:

wherein the content of the first and second substances,is a photoelectric conversion factor, and is characterized in that,is the area of the receiving aperture of the photodetector;

s2, when the master 1 and the slave 2 communicate, the signal generator 15 inputs the signal to be sent into the electro-optical modulator 14, and when the output light arrives at the master 1 again after going back and forth in the resonant cavity for one circle, the master 1 calculates the first order in sequence according to the step S1Intensity of resonance light corresponding to each symbol：

Wherein the content of the first and second substances,is as followsThe current intensity corresponding to each of the symbols,is the total number of symbols in a round-trip period;

s3, FPGA board according toResonant light intensity of individual symbolIntensity of light in resonance with the stability of the registerRatio ofCalculating out the firstIntensity of resonance light corresponding to each symbolReach steady resonance light intensityRequired pump powerAnd further control the controllable pumpThe pump source generates a corresponding pump power to smooth the resonant light passing through the first gain medium 12:

wherein the content of the first and second substances,the cross-sectional area of the gain medium,in order to control the pumping efficiency of the pump source,in order to achieve a saturated light intensity of the gain medium,the calculation formula of (a) is as follows:

。

by controlling the pumping power of the controllable pumping source, the intensity of the resonant light input into the electro-optical modulator 14 is constant after the resonant light passing through the first gain medium 12 reaches a steady stateAfter the intensity of the resonance light is stable, the host computer communicates with the slave computer, and the communication process includes:

a1, suppose to haveGenerates information to be sent asThen there will also be light in the output light, according to the principle of operation of the electro-optic modulator 14The different light intensities are recorded asThe output light reaches the slave 2 after propagating in the cavity;

a2, in the slave 2, the second beam splitter 21 reflects part of the resonant light in the cavity to the second photodetector 241, the second photodetector 241 converts the light into an analog signal, and the analog signal is input to the signal processing board 242 through the ADC device, and the intensity isWill be converted to have current intensity after the above treatmentThe calculation formula of the signal (c) is as follows:

wherein the content of the first and second substances,the single pass loss for light propagating in the cavity;

a3, according toThe different current intensities are calculated as followsAnd (3) seed decision threshold:

wherein the content of the first and second substances,is as followsA judgment threshold corresponding to the seed information;

a4, signal processing board 242 based on thisThe decision threshold is used for recovering the signal transmitted by the host 1 by detecting the current strength of the received signal as follows:

if it is in the received signalCurrent intensity corresponding to each symbolThen the symbol is decided as。

The above examples are only intended to illustrate the technical solution of the present invention, but not to limit it; although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some technical features may be equivalently replaced; and such modifications or substitutions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the corresponding technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention.