Fast, Accurate, and Low-Disturbance Automatic Bias Control for Coherent Optical Transmitter Using Dither Vector Mapping Monitoring

A fast, accurate automatic bias control (ABC) scheme with low disturbance for optical IQ modulators is proposed by using the dither-vector-mapping monitoring (DVMM) technique. The proposed scheme solely necessitates vector length calculation via addition and subtraction operations and obviates the n...

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Main Authors: Hongyu Li, Xinghan Li, Mengfan Cheng, Qi Yang, Ming Tang, Deming Liu, Lei Deng
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Published: IEEE 2025-01-01
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Xinghan Li
Mengfan Cheng
Qi Yang
Ming Tang
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Lei Deng
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description A fast, accurate automatic bias control (ABC) scheme with low disturbance for optical IQ modulators is proposed by using the dither-vector-mapping monitoring (DVMM) technique. The proposed scheme solely necessitates vector length calculation via addition and subtraction operations and obviates the necessity of employing a direct digital synthesis (DDS) module, in contrast to conventional ABC schemes. By this means, the proposed scheme demonstrates reduced algorithmic complexity and a faster convergence rate, requiring only 0.3∼0.5 s to track and lock from a random bias point to a linear bias point, about 30 times faster than current commercial products. Moreover, unlike the commonly used single-tone dither signal (STDS), the PRBS-based dither signal in this scheme is broadband and has lower power spectral density and peak power at the same power level. Therefore, it not only induces lower nonlinear distortion in the transmitted signal but also has strong noise resistance, contributing to good control accuracy and robustness. The performance of DVMM-based ABC and STDS-based ABC is evaluated in 40/20 Gbaud 16/64 QAM coherent optical transmission systems, showing that DVMM can effectively reduce the bit error rate (BER) and has superior transmission performance.
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spelling doaj-art-e65c45c7d9854aaba16b09d3d5b8e95a2025-08-20T03:15:47ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552025-01-011721510.1109/JPHOT.2025.354083910882879Fast, Accurate, and Low-Disturbance Automatic Bias Control for Coherent Optical Transmitter Using Dither Vector Mapping MonitoringHongyu Li0Xinghan Li1Mengfan Cheng2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8221-0612Qi Yang3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9017-6971Ming Tang4https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8669-4186Deming Liu5https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5591-2929Lei Deng6https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2647-4610Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, ChinaWuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, ChinaWuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, ChinaWuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, ChinaWuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, ChinaWuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, ChinaWuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, ChinaA fast, accurate automatic bias control (ABC) scheme with low disturbance for optical IQ modulators is proposed by using the dither-vector-mapping monitoring (DVMM) technique. The proposed scheme solely necessitates vector length calculation via addition and subtraction operations and obviates the necessity of employing a direct digital synthesis (DDS) module, in contrast to conventional ABC schemes. By this means, the proposed scheme demonstrates reduced algorithmic complexity and a faster convergence rate, requiring only 0.3∼0.5 s to track and lock from a random bias point to a linear bias point, about 30 times faster than current commercial products. Moreover, unlike the commonly used single-tone dither signal (STDS), the PRBS-based dither signal in this scheme is broadband and has lower power spectral density and peak power at the same power level. Therefore, it not only induces lower nonlinear distortion in the transmitted signal but also has strong noise resistance, contributing to good control accuracy and robustness. The performance of DVMM-based ABC and STDS-based ABC is evaluated in 40/20 Gbaud 16/64 QAM coherent optical transmission systems, showing that DVMM can effectively reduce the bit error rate (BER) and has superior transmission performance.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10882879/Bias controlIQ modulatorfastlow disturbanceDVMM
spellingShingle Hongyu Li
Xinghan Li
Mengfan Cheng
Qi Yang
Ming Tang
Deming Liu
Lei Deng
Fast, Accurate, and Low-Disturbance Automatic Bias Control for Coherent Optical Transmitter Using Dither Vector Mapping Monitoring
IEEE Photonics Journal
Bias control
IQ modulator
fast
low disturbance
DVMM
title Fast, Accurate, and Low-Disturbance Automatic Bias Control for Coherent Optical Transmitter Using Dither Vector Mapping Monitoring
title_full Fast, Accurate, and Low-Disturbance Automatic Bias Control for Coherent Optical Transmitter Using Dither Vector Mapping Monitoring
title_fullStr Fast, Accurate, and Low-Disturbance Automatic Bias Control for Coherent Optical Transmitter Using Dither Vector Mapping Monitoring
title_full_unstemmed Fast, Accurate, and Low-Disturbance Automatic Bias Control for Coherent Optical Transmitter Using Dither Vector Mapping Monitoring
title_short Fast, Accurate, and Low-Disturbance Automatic Bias Control for Coherent Optical Transmitter Using Dither Vector Mapping Monitoring
title_sort fast accurate and low disturbance automatic bias control for coherent optical transmitter using dither vector mapping monitoring
topic Bias control
IQ modulator
fast
low disturbance
DVMM
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10882879/
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