Patents by Inventor Zhenning Tao

Zhenning Tao has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10404380
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure provide a compensation apparatus for an offset drift, a received signal recovery apparatus and a receiver, in which estimation and compensation of an offset drift are directly performed at a receiver end, with no need of extra provision of an offset control circuit at a transmitter end, so that the system is simple in structure, applicable to various modulation formats, wide in applicability, and is able to meet demands for high-order modulation formats. And furthermore, by equalizing a received signal and performing phase recovery on a frequency difference and phase noises, information on offset points of a modulator of the transmitter end may be accurately separated, thereby accurately compensating for the offset drift of the modulator of the transmitter end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yangyang Fan, Zhenning Tao
  • Patent number: 10367635
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure provide a signal transmission apparatus, a carrier phase recovery apparatus and method. By inserting phase modulation signals with variable amplitudes into data modulation signals and performing carrier phase recovery on received signals at a receiving end according to the phase modulation signals, the apparatuses and methods are applicable to communications systems of various modulation formats and are compatible with existing communications systems, and calculation complexity is relatively low. Furthermore, as the amplitudes of the inserted phase modulation signals are variable, the phase modulation signals may be flexibly configured in data modulation signals, to lower redundancy and influence on the system capacity is relatively small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiaofei Su, Liang Dou, Zhenning Tao
  • Patent number: 10345673
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure provide a bias control apparatus and method of a modulator of an optical transmitter and an optical transmitter. By obtaining respective output power signals of a first Mach-Zehnder modulator and a second Mach-Zehnder modulator constituting the modulator of the optical transmitter, information on a phase bias may be extracted according to the two output power signals and an overall output power signal of the modulator of the optical transmitter, so as to control the phase bias by using the information, thereby efficiently improving a sensitivity of the control of the bias, and being applicable to various types of modulation formats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yangyang Fan, Zhenning Tao
  • Patent number: 10313008
    Abstract: A measurement method and apparatus for residual direct-current components and a system where the measurement method includes: selecting a section of data of a first predetermined length respectively from received signals in two polarization states; performing a coordinate transform on the two selected sections of data to obtain a group of vectors of Strokes space; and determining a difference between power of the residual direct-current components according to the group of vectors of Strokes space. With the embodiments of this disclosure, residual direct-current components of an optical transmitter may be measured at a receiver end of a coherent optical communication system, thereby avoiding diagnosis errors of a communication network, and improving performance of the communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hao Chen, Zhenning Tao
  • Patent number: 10313007
    Abstract: A system performance prediction method and apparatus where the transmission system performance prediction apparatus includes: a calculating unit configured to calculate system performance at second power according to first power of a signal and a first noise component generated by the system at the first power. With the above system performance prediction apparatus, by changing power and predicting the system performance by using noise components at different power, accuracy of the prediction of the system performance may be improved, and problems in the related art may be avoided that in predicting system performance, a large-capacity database needs to be prepared and accuracy of the prediction of the system performance is low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhenning Tao, Ying Zhao
  • Patent number: 10305591
    Abstract: A detection apparatus and method for noise intensity and a coherent optical receiver where the detection method includes: preprocessing a received signal to obtain a pilot sequence contained in the received signal; removing a phase noise of a receiving pilot sequence by using a known transmitting pilot signal; calculating a noise power density of the receiving pilot sequence with no (or without) phase noise within a predetermined spectral width near a pilot frequency; and calculating power of a linear noise of the received signal based on a bandwidth of the received signal and the noise power density within the predetermined spectral width. Hence, linear noises and nonlinear noises may be split efficiently without introducing much complexity, and information on intensities of various noises may be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Ying Zhao, Zhenning Tao
  • Publication number: 20190149231
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure provide an apparatus and method for monitoring an optical signal to noise ratio, a receiver and a communication system. The apparatus for monitoring an optical signal to noise ratio includes extracting signals from signals obtained after an equalization processing is performed on optical signals received by a receiver, the optical signals including signals of known frequencies, and the signals extracted having the same spectral characteristics as the signals of known frequencies; correcting, according to filtering parameters used in the equalization processing, the signals extracted and outputting corrected signals; and calculating an optical signal to noise ratio according to the corrected signals. According to the embodiments of this disclosure, the optical signal to noise ratio may be calculated more accurately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Huihui LI, Zhenning TAO
  • Publication number: 20190132183
    Abstract: An estimation apparatus for IQ imbalance of an optical transmitter, a compensation apparatus for IQ imbalance of an optical transmitter and electronic equipment; wherein, estimation and compensation of IQ imbalance of an optical transmitter are performed by directly using an estimation model based on a transform matrix of received signals and transmitted signals, therefore, a phase offset shift may be estimated accurately, and precision of estimation of drifts of various angles is ensured, furthermore, accurate recovery of the constellation diagram of received signals is achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yangyang FAN, Zhenning TAO
  • Patent number: 10263698
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a monitoring apparatus for an optical signal to noise ratio, a signal transmission apparatus and a receiver. White noise power of received signals is calculated according to noise power and power of pilot signals of the received signals in different polarization states, and influence of a nonlinear noise is excluded, thereby accurately estimating an optical signal to noise ratio, for example, with a calculation process being simple and an application range being relatively wide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Liang Dou, Zhenning Tao
  • Publication number: 20190104036
    Abstract: An inter-channel linear crosstalk estimation method and apparatus and a communication system are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Ke ZHANG, Xiaofei SU, Yangyang FAN, Zhenning TAO
  • Publication number: 20190097721
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure provide an apparatus and method for monitoring a polarization dependent loss, a receiver and a communication system. The apparatus for monitoring a polarization dependent loss includes: a first processing unit configured to process received optical signals, to obtain a first correlation matrix of noise signals in the received optical signals and a second correlation matrix of second signals or other signals in the received optical signals other than first signals or spectral feature signals having predetermined spectral features; a matrix subtraction unit configured to subtract the second correlation matrix by the first correlation matrix, to obtain a third matrix; and a calculating unit configured to perform singular value decomposition on the third matrix, and calculate a polarization dependent loss according to a result of the singular value decomposition. According to the embodiments of this disclosure, the polarization dependent loss may be calculated more accurately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Huihui LI, Zhenning TAO
  • Patent number: 10243725
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure provide an apparatus and method for generating a transmitting sequence, a training sequence synchronization apparatus and method, an apparatus and method for estimating channel spacing and a system. The training sequence synchronization apparatus includes: a delay correlation processing unit configured to parallelly perform autocorrelation operations of different delay amounts on a receiving sequence containing a periodic training sequence to obtain multiple parallel correlation sequences; a superimposition processing unit configured to perform a superimposition operation on the multiple parallel correlation sequences to obtain a synchronization correlation sequence; and a synchronization extracting unit configured to perform a synchronization position extraction on the synchronization correlation sequence to obtain a synchronization position of the training sequence. With the embodiments of this disclosure, anti-noise performance of the training sequence may be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Ying Zhao, Liang Dou, Zhenning Tao
  • Patent number: 10230463
    Abstract: A transmitter generates a frequency-modulated CW light so as to transmit it to a path. A receiver receives the CW light that has passed through passband filters included in the path. The receiver includes a processor. The processor measures an optical power of the received CW light every time a center frequency of the CW light is changed and transmitted by the transmitter. The processor calculates transmission characteristics of the CW light that has passed through the passband filters, on the basis of an average value of the optical power that corresponds to a center frequency of the CW light and on the basis of an amplitude component that indicates an amount of change in the optical power, the average value and the amplitude component being obtained as a result of the measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Guoxiu Huang, Yasuhiko Aoki, Shoichiro Oda, Zhenning Tao, Setsuo Yoshida, Kyosuke Sone
  • Patent number: 10230469
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for measuring a filtering characteristic, a pre-equalizer and an optical communication equipment where the apparatus includes: a first processing unit configured to determine a filtering characteristic of a receiving end, or determine a joint response of a filtering characteristic of a transmitting end and the filtering characteristic of the receiving end, in a spectrum of a receiving signal obtained after a first measurement signal and a second measurement signal pass through respective filtering modules, according to a nonoverlapped spectral part of the first measurement signal and the second measurement signal. The filtering modules through which the first measurement signal passes include a transmitting end filtering module and a receiving end filtering module, the filtering module through which the second measurement signal passes include the receiving end filtering module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yangyang Fan, Liang Dou, Zhenning Tao
  • Patent number: 10225010
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for measuring a filtering characteristic, pre-equalizer and communication equipment. The apparatus for measuring a filtering characteristic includes: a first processing unit configured to determine a filtering characteristic of a receiving end according to an amplitude of a receiving signal obtained after a measurement signal passes through a transmitting end filtering module and a receiving end filtering module at provided different frequency offsets of a transmitting laser of a transmitting end and a local laser of the receiving end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhenning Tao, Yangyang Fan, Liang Dou
  • Patent number: 10225007
    Abstract: A measuring method and apparatus of frequency response characteristic imbalance of an optical receiver, in which by transmitting at least one single-frequency signal in an I branch or a Q branch of an optical transmitter, an amplitude ratio and phase imbalance of the I branch and the Q branch of the optical receiver are directly calculated according to at least one pair of received signals extracted from the I branch and the Q branch of the optical receiver of which frequencies are split due to a frequency difference between lasers of the optical transmitter and the optical receiver, with no need of many times of changes of central wavelengths of lasers of the optical transmitter and the optical receiver for performing measurement for many times, and measurement of frequency response characteristic imbalance of the optical receiver may be achieved through one time of measurement, which is simple in process and accurate in measurement result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Cheng Ju, Zhenning Tao
  • Patent number: 10181907
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure provide a method and apparatus for estimating polarization dependent loss (PDL) and a receiving device. The method includes: performing equalization processing on pre-processed dual-polarization state signals; performing correlation operations on the equalized dual-polarization state signals and unequalized dual-polarization state signals; constructing an estimation matrix based on a result of the correlation operations; and calculating a polarization dependent loss of the dual-polarization state signals by using one or more feature values of the estimation matrix. Hence, not only PDL in an optical fiber link may be accurately estimated, but also off-line digital signal processing may be performed at a receiver, without needing to incur extra hardware overhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Huihui Li, Ying Zhao, Zhenning Tao
  • Patent number: 10177844
    Abstract: A measurement method and apparatus for a residual direct-current component and a system where the measurement method for a residual direct-current component includes: selecting a section of data of a first predetermined length from a received signal; performing fast Fourier transform on the selected data to obtain a frequency-domain signal of the data; calculating a power spectrum of the frequency-domain signal of the transformed data; and finding out a maximum peak value of the power spectrum in a frequency offset range, and taking power of the maximum peak value as power of the residual direct-current component. With the embodiments of this disclosure, a residual direct-current component of an optical transmitter may be measured at a receiver end of a coherent optical communication system, thereby avoiding a diagnosis error of a communication network, and improving performance of the communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hao Chen, Zhenning Tao
  • Patent number: 10171162
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for measuring frequency response characteristics of an optical transmitter and an optical receiver where the apparatus includes: a generating unit configured to generate a driving signal for driving the modulator of the optical transmitter, which comprises at least two frequencies; and a calculating unit configured to respectively calculate the frequency response characteristics of the optical transmitter and the optical receiver according to output signal components in output signals of the optical receiver corresponding to at least two detection signal components of identical amplitudes and different frequencies in detection signals. The frequency response characteristics of the optical transmitter and the optical receiver may be obtained, the amplitude responses and phase responses in the frequency response characteristics may be respectively obtained, and the measurement results are accurate and reliable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Cheng Ju, Liang Dou, Zhenning Tao
  • Publication number: 20180314127
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure provide a bias control apparatus and method of a modulator of an optical transmitter and an optical transmitter. By obtaining respective output power signals of a first Mach-Zehnder modulator and a second Mach-Zehnder modulator constituting the modulator of the optical transmitter, information on a phase bias may be extracted according to the two output power signals and an overall output power signal of the modulator of the optical transmitter, so as to control the phase bias by using the information, thereby efficiently improving a sensitivity of the control of the bias, and being applicable to various types of modulation formats.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yangyang FAN, Zhenning TAO