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Berlin University of Technology<br />

High-Frequency Engineering / <strong>Photonics</strong><br />

K. Petermann<br />

petermann@tu-berlin.de<br />

TECHNISCHE<br />

UNIVERSITÄT<br />

BERLIN<br />

Fachgebiet <strong>Hochfrequenztechnik</strong>


Where we are located...<br />

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TECHNISCHE<br />

UNIVERSITÄT<br />

BERLIN<br />

Fachgebiet <strong>Hochfrequenztechnik</strong>


About the structure of the university...<br />

I<br />

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IV<br />

V<br />

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Humanities<br />

Mathematics and Natural Sciences<br />

Process Sciences<br />

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science<br />

Mechanical Engineering and Transport Systems<br />

Civil Engineering and Applied Geosciences<br />

Architecture - Environment - Society<br />

Economics and Management<br />

TECHNISCHE<br />

UNIVERSITÄT<br />

BERLIN<br />

Fachgebiet <strong>Hochfrequenztechnik</strong>


IV: Electrical engineering and Computer science<br />

• Institute for Energy and Automation Technology<br />

• Institute for High Frequency- and Semiconductor System<br />

Technologies<br />

• Institute for Telecommunication Systems<br />

• Institute for Computer-Engineering and Microelectronics<br />

• Institute for Software Engineering and Theoretical Computer Science<br />

• Institute for Commercial Information Technology and Quantitative<br />

Methods<br />

TECHNISCHE<br />

UNIVERSITÄT<br />

BERLIN<br />

Fachgebiet <strong>Hochfrequenztechnik</strong>


Institute for High-Frequency and<br />

Semiconductor System Technologies<br />

• Semiconductor devices :<br />

• <strong>Photonics</strong>:<br />

• Electromagnetic compatibility:<br />

• Microwave technology:<br />

• Centre of advanced packaging:<br />

• Optoelectronics:<br />

Prof. Boit<br />

Prof. Petermann<br />

Prof. Mönich<br />

Prof. Böck<br />

Prof. Reichl (IZM)<br />

Prof. Tränkle (FBH)<br />

TECHNISCHE<br />

UNIVERSITÄT<br />

BERLIN<br />

Fachgebiet <strong>Hochfrequenztechnik</strong>


<strong>Photonics</strong>, Prof. Petermann<br />

• Staff<br />

–Research staff: 15 people (12 PhD Students)<br />

–Technical staff: 6 people<br />

–Administration: 1 person<br />

• Research Areas<br />

–<strong>Optical</strong> <strong>transmission</strong> <strong>systems</strong><br />

–Electronic mitigation of propagation effects<br />

–Orthogonal frequency-division multiplex (OFDM)<br />

–All-optical signal processing<br />

–SoI Motherboard technology for hybrid integration<br />

–<strong>Optical</strong> and fibre sensors<br />

TECHNISCHE<br />

UNIVERSITÄT<br />

BERLIN<br />

Fachgebiet <strong>Hochfrequenztechnik</strong>


<strong>Optical</strong> <strong>transmission</strong> <strong>systems</strong><br />

• General assessment of non-linear properties<br />

–Description of non-linear interaction in frequency<br />

domain<br />

–Easy comparison of different <strong>transmission</strong> <strong>systems</strong><br />

–Independent of number of spans, dispersion map etc.<br />

• Dispersion management for cross-phase modulation<br />

(XPM) suppression in 10 Gb/s <strong>systems</strong><br />

–Design rules for dispersion management<br />

• Interplay between polarisation-mode dispersion (PMD)<br />

and nonlinear effects<br />

–Properties of PMD statistics in presence of nonlinearities<br />

–Influence on PMD compensation<br />

TECHNISCHE<br />

UNIVERSITÄT<br />

BERLIN<br />

Fachgebiet <strong>Hochfrequenztechnik</strong>


General assessment of non-linear properties<br />

Tx<br />

...<br />

N spans<br />

Rx<br />

Tx<br />

Rx<br />

Equivalent single-span system<br />

with similar properties<br />

TECHNISCHE<br />

UNIVERSITÄT<br />

BERLIN<br />

Fachgebiet <strong>Hochfrequenztechnik</strong>


Electronic mitigation of propagation effects<br />

• Suppression of non-linear effects by pre-distortion in<br />

40 Gb/s <strong>transmission</strong> <strong>systems</strong><br />

–<strong>Optical</strong> modulation of amplitude and phase at the<br />

transmitter<br />

–Design for low complexity of electronics<br />

• Electronic pre-distortion of directly modulated lasers in<br />

10 Gb/s NRZ <strong>transmission</strong> w/o optical dispersion<br />

compensation<br />

–Compensation of dispersion and non-linear transfer<br />

function of directly modulated laser<br />

–No inline dispersion compensation needed<br />

TECHNISCHE<br />

UNIVERSITÄT<br />

BERLIN<br />

Fachgebiet <strong>Hochfrequenztechnik</strong>


Pre-distortion in 40 Gb/s <strong>transmission</strong> <strong>systems</strong><br />

Data<br />

01100...<br />

Target<br />

format<br />

Link<br />

length<br />

Digital<br />

Electronic<br />

pre-distortion<br />

e.g. Look-up<br />

table<br />

D/A<br />

D/A<br />

Sample, e.g.<br />

I component<br />

CW Laser<br />

D acc<br />

Vector<br />

modulator<br />

Sample, e.g.<br />

Q component<br />

SSMF<br />

DCF<br />

OA<br />

Transmission link:<br />

100% fully post-<br />

Compensated spans<br />

Direct<br />

detection<br />

Sent signal at<br />

transmitter:<br />

Received<br />

signal:<br />

• Control of I and Q component at the transmitter<br />

• No coherent detection needed<br />

TECHNISCHE<br />

UNIVERSITÄT<br />

BERLIN<br />

Fachgebiet <strong>Hochfrequenztechnik</strong>


Pre-distortion with directly modulated laser<br />

PRBS<br />

Electr. Dispersion<br />

compensation<br />

1 st order 2 nd order 3 rd order<br />

<strong>transmission</strong> length [km]<br />

time [s]<br />

• Input electrical NRZ sequence is pre-distorted for EDC<br />

• Chirp of DML for amplitude and phase control<br />

TECHNISCHE<br />

UNIVERSITÄT<br />

BERLIN<br />

Fachgebiet <strong>Hochfrequenztechnik</strong>


Orthogonal frequency-division multiplex (OFDM)<br />

• Investigation of direct-detection <strong>systems</strong><br />

–influence of linear and non-linear effects<br />

• spectrally efficient techniques<br />

–compatible single sideband (cSSB)<br />

• System assessment<br />

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All-optical signal processing<br />

• Wavelength conversion of phase-modulated optical<br />

signals based on<br />

–Cross-phase modulation (XPM)<br />

–Four-wave mixing (FWM)<br />

• 2R & 3R Regeneration<br />

• Investigated non-linear media<br />

–Highly non-linear fibres (HNLF)<br />

–Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA)<br />

–Ultra-long SOAs<br />

–Quantum-dot SOAs<br />

• Co-operation with Heinrich-Hertz institute<br />

TECHNISCHE<br />

UNIVERSITÄT<br />

BERLIN<br />

Fachgebiet <strong>Hochfrequenztechnik</strong>


3R regenerator for DPSK signals<br />

• Phase-to-amplitude conversion by delay-line<br />

interferometer (DLI)<br />

• Phase modulation (PM) of clock pulses from clock recovery<br />

(CR) via XPM<br />

• Wavelength conversion from λ 1 to λ 2<br />

TECHNISCHE<br />

UNIVERSITÄT<br />

BERLIN<br />

Fachgebiet <strong>Hochfrequenztechnik</strong>


Silicon-on-insulator technology<br />

• <strong>Optical</strong> components<br />

–Wave-guides<br />

–Arrayed wave-guide gratings (AWG)<br />

–Delay-line interferometers<br />

• Board technology for hybrid integration<br />

–Multi-wavelength transmitter<br />

• D(Q)PSK receiver board<br />

• Active and tuneable micro-photonic <strong>systems</strong><br />

–DFG research group<br />

–Collaboration with <strong>TU</strong> Hamburg-Harburg<br />

TECHNISCHE<br />

UNIVERSITÄT<br />

BERLIN<br />

Fachgebiet <strong>Hochfrequenztechnik</strong>


SOI motherboard technology<br />

Multi-λ<br />

receiver<br />

l 1<br />

l 2<br />

l 3<br />

l 4<br />

source<br />

DtMulti-λ<br />

SOI motherboard<br />

technology<br />

SOA interferometric<br />

switch<br />

OTDM<br />

components<br />

TECHNISCHE<br />

UNIVERSITÄT<br />

BERLIN<br />

Fachgebiet <strong>Hochfrequenztechnik</strong>


Silicon as material for lightwave technology<br />

• Use of silicon for photonics because of:<br />

– Very good optical properties of silicon, low losses<br />

– Tuneability (thermo-optic effect, carrier injection)<br />

– High index material, compact components<br />

– Extremely well studied material, well known processing<br />

– Compatible with CMOS processes<br />

– Large area wafer, high quality material<br />

TECHNISCHE<br />

UNIVERSITÄT<br />

BERLIN<br />

Fachgebiet <strong>Hochfrequenztechnik</strong> 17


Passive optical components<br />

W = 3.2 µm<br />

H = 4.0 µm<br />

h = 2.0 µm<br />

SiO 2 = 1.0 µm<br />

Rib wave-guides<br />

TECHNISCHE<br />

UNIVERSITÄT<br />

BERLIN<br />

Fachgebiet <strong>Hochfrequenztechnik</strong> 18


Passive optical components: AWGs<br />

C-WDM AWG:<br />

Layout<br />

C-WDM AWG:<br />

Performance<br />

Loss [dB]<br />

TECHNISCHE<br />

UNIVERSITÄT<br />

BERLIN<br />

Wavelength [nm] [nm]<br />

Fachgebiet <strong>Hochfrequenztechnik</strong> 19


Hybrid integration<br />

active components,<br />

flip-chip laser<br />

optical integration,<br />

wave-guide facets<br />

wave-guides, passive components<br />

TECHNISCHE<br />

UNIVERSITÄT<br />

BERLIN<br />

Fachgebiet <strong>Hochfrequenztechnik</strong>


C-WDM transmitter board: Silicon-based solution<br />

DFBs<br />

λ1<br />

λ2 λ3 λ4<br />

AWG<br />

Overview of the SOI-based<br />

C-WDM transmitter chip<br />

Output spectrum of the SOI<br />

transmitter board.<br />

TECHNISCHE<br />

UNIVERSITÄT<br />

BERLIN<br />

Fachgebiet <strong>Hochfrequenztechnik</strong>


<strong>Optical</strong> and fibre sensors<br />

• Electro-optical RF field probe<br />

–small and compact<br />

–high linearity<br />

• Strain and temperature sensor based on Brillouin effect<br />

–distributed measurement along several 100m<br />

• Plastic optical fibre (POF) sensors<br />

–<strong>Optical</strong> time-domain reflectometry (OTDR)<br />

–distributed measurement along several 10m<br />

–robust technique<br />

TECHNISCHE<br />

UNIVERSITÄT<br />

BERLIN<br />

Fachgebiet <strong>Hochfrequenztechnik</strong>


Electro-optical RF E-field probe<br />

TECHNISCHE<br />

UNIVERSITÄT<br />

BERLIN<br />

Fachgebiet <strong>Hochfrequenztechnik</strong>


Planned and future activites<br />

(see also www-hft.ee.tu-berlin.de)<br />

• System and signal properties in the presence of predistortion<br />

and equalisation<br />

• System and signal properties in coherent <strong>transmission</strong><br />

<strong>systems</strong> applying higher-order modulation formats<br />

• Coherent OFDM <strong>systems</strong><br />

• Components for signal processing in SoI technology<br />

• Guidelines for network and system design<br />

TECHNISCHE<br />

UNIVERSITÄT<br />

BERLIN<br />

Fachgebiet <strong>Hochfrequenztechnik</strong>

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