A 1.55-µm hybrid integrated wavelength-converter module was fabricated using a two-channel spot-size converter integrated semiconductor optical amplifier (SS-SOA) on a planar-lightwave-circuit (PLC) platform. Clear eye opening and penalty-free wavelength conversion were obtained at 2.5-Gb/s modulation with a wide wavelength difference of 46 nm. The module showed good characteristics including low insertion loss (0.1 dB), and high conversion efficiency (-0.2 dB). It also showed stable wavelength conversion for as wide as a 13 temperature range.

A GaAs/AlGaAs directional-coupler-type device that use polariton propagation was fabricated and its switching operation was demonstrated. The length of the switching region is as small as 300 µm. The output signal modulation under an electric field shows typical characteristics of directional-coupler type switching. The measured operation voltage is 2 V for an operation wavelength of 805 nm at 10 K. The corresponding signal extinction ratio is 8 dB. These experimental results confirm the efficient operation of the polariton devices, which can be applied to especially small optical -switching devices with low-voltage operation.

Aiming at wideband and flat supercontinuum generation (SC) from optical fibers in the 1.55-µm wavelength region, we study both experimentally and theoretically how SC spectra are influenced by group-velocity dispersion (GVD) of fibers. In the anomalous GVD region, since the peak power of pump pulses is kept high during propagation through the fiber by the higher-order soliton effect, the Raman effect has an adverse effect to flat and wideband SC generation. In the zero GVD region, the interplay of the third-order dispersion (TOD) and the self-phase modulation splits the SC spectrum into two main components. On the other hand, in the normal GVD region, nevertheless the SC spectrum broadens wider and smoother than those in anomalous and zero GVD regions, it is still asymmetric when TOD of the fiber can not be ignored. From these results, we find that a dispersion-flattened fiber with normal GVD is the most suitable for flat and wideband SC generation. A 280-nm wide SC spectrum with the spectral-density fluctuation less than 10 dB is actually generated from such a fiber.

We have developed a low-latency, error-correcting-code-(ECC-)adaptable skew-compensation technique, which is needed for high-speed and long-distance parallel optical interconnections. A new frame-coding technique called shuffled mB1C encoding, which requires no clock-rate conversion circuit and no data buffering, and a new skew-measurement method which is suitable for ECC adaptation have been developed for the compensation. Full-digital skew-compensation circuits using these new techniques were able to compensate for a two-clock-cycle skew, even when one transmission channel was removed. The maximum latency for skew compensation was only five clock cycles.

We developed an optical transceiver diode (TRAD) module for bi-directional time-compression-multiplexing (TCM) transmission systems. A wavelength-insensitive structure as a receiver and a low-capacitance configuration in the module provide a high sensitivity. Stable switching of 156 Mbit/s NRZ burst signals between the transmitter and receiver modes is achieved. In addition, it is shown that optical module cost can be further reduced by using passive alignment on a Si bench.

After a short introduction to the different requirements to and techniques for wavelength conversion, focus is on cross-gain and cross-phase modulation in SOA based converters. Aspects like jitter accumulation, regeneration and conversion to the same wavelength is discussed. It is predicted that jitter accumulation can be minimised while also assuring a high extinction ratio by using a 9-10 dB ratio between the signal and CW power. Using this guideline simulations show that 20 cross-gain modulation converters can be cascaded at 10 Gbit/s with only 20 ps of accumulated jitter and an extinction ratio of 10 dB. The regenerative capabilities of the cross-phase converters are described and verified experimentally at 20 Gbit/s. By controlling the input power to an EDFA, the noise redistribution and improvement of the signal-to-noise ratio is demonstrated. In a similar experiment at 2.5 Gbit/s, the regeneration causes a reduction of the required input power to an in-line EDFA of 6 dB for a power penalty of 1 dB at a bit error rate of 10-9. If two converters are concatenated the power requirement is reduced 8 dB. Obviously, the power reduction allows for longer spans between in-line EDFAs. A simple scheme for regeneration without wavelength conversion is assessed at 2.5 Gbit/s resulting in 4.5 dB lower required EDFA input power. The scheme is characterised by a quasi-digital transfer function that is ideal for regeneration. A combination of cross-gain and cross-phase conversion is used to perform conversion to the same wavelength at 20 Gbit/s. The insertion penalty for this dual-stage converter is below 2 dB and is mainly caused by extinction ratio degradation from the cross-gain converter. Finally, a new device for all-optical wavelength conversion has been proposed and 2.5 Gbit/s operation has been simulated with good results.

A 1.55-µm hybrid integrated wavelength-converter module was fabricated using a two-channel spot-size converter integrated semiconductor optical amplifier (SS-SOA) on a planar-lightwave-circuit (PLC) platform. Clear eye opening and penalty-free wavelength conversion were obtained at 2.5-Gb/s modulation with a wide wavelength difference of 46 nm. The module showed good characteristics including low insertion loss (0.1 dB), and high conversion efficiency (-0.2 dB). It also showed stable wavelength conversion for as wide as a 13 temperature range.

A GaAs/AlGaAs directional-coupler-type device that use polariton propagation was fabricated and its switching operation was demonstrated. The length of the switching region is as small as 300 µm. The output signal modulation under an electric field shows typical characteristics of directional-coupler type switching. The measured operation voltage is 2 V for an operation wavelength of 805 nm at 10 K. The corresponding signal extinction ratio is 8 dB. These experimental results confirm the efficient operation of the polariton devices, which can be applied to especially small optical -switching devices with low-voltage operation.

We propose a query processing method for amalgamated knowledge bases. Our query processing method is an extension of the magic sets technique for query processing in amalgamated knowledge bases, augmented with the capabilities of handling amalgamated atoms. Through rewriting rules in a given amalgamated knowledge base, our method offers the advantages associated with top-down as well as bottom-up evaluation. We discuss how to handle amalgamated atoms, consider how to check whether an amalgamated atom is satisfiable in a fact set and how to extend a fact set by inserting an amalgamated atom. We also give the transformation procedures for amalgamated knowledge databases and show the correctness of our method.

In many applications of digital video database systems such as digital library, video data is often compressed with MPEG video algorithms. It will be an important technique to insert the additional information data like indexes and contents effectively into video database which is compressed with MPEG, because we can always deal with the additional information with video data itself easily. We propose a method for inserting optional binary data such as index information of digital library into MPEG-1 and -2 bitstreams. The binary data inserted MPEG video bitstreams using our proposed scheme are also according to the specification of the MPEG video frame structure. The proposed method allows us to extract the inserted binary data perfectly though MPEG-1 and -2 video are lossy algorithms. And the quality of decoded images after extracting added information is almost the same as that of ordinary MPEG bitstreams. Furthermore, traditional standard MPEG-1 and -2 video decoder which can not extract inserted binary data can also decode images from the binary data inserted MPEG video bitstreams without obvious image degradation. There are some different points between the proposed insertion technique of the binary data and the watermarking technique. The technique of watermarking prepares to deal with alter watermarking by others. And the technique of watermarking is required for the identification of the signature and the perfect extraction of the inserted image signature is not required in the lossy MPEG video environment. On the other hand, we have to extract all of the inserted binary information data correctly with the insertion technique of the binary information. Simulations using MPEG video sequences with inserted binary data are presented to quantify some performance factors concerned. We have not heard about inserting data method which purpose is such as index and content information insertion.

An image edge sharpening technique with phase correction for digital image is presented. In this paper the point spread functions of a typical standard single focal lens and zoom lens are investigated with a several different apertures. And from this investigation the Fourier phase figure pattern of the point-spread function is identified. The technique here includes a traditional one (a Laplacian operator) and phase-only synthesis with the corrected Fourier phase. The Fourier phase of the original non-blurred image is estimated recursively and it is utilized for implementation of the phase-only synthesis, which is powerful for image edge sharpening. A human visual property is also introduced as a weight function in order to maintain the natural smoothness in the gray level of the resulting processed image. Simulation examples show that the proposed technique is superior to the traditional one.

Minimizing the guard time, Tguard, in the TCM-TDMA PDS scheme is essential in maximizing TCM transmission efficiency. As a replacement for the commonly adopted worst-case approach to TCM-TDMA PDS system estimation, this paper proposes a statistical approach. The level distributions of losses and n-th order Fresnel reflections are determined from published measurements. The proposed approach estimates the reflection of the optical access network.

Two classes of nonlinear feedforward logic (NLFFL) pseudonoise (PN) code generators based on the use of AND and majority logic (ML) gates are compared. Cross-correlation and code-division multiple-access (CDMA) properties of properly designed NLFFL sequences are found to be comparable with the properties of well-known linear PN codes. It is determined that code design employing ML gates with an odd number of inputs is easier compared with designing with AND gates. This is especially true when the degree of nonlinearity is large, since the nonbalance problem, e. g. , at the output of an AND gate, can be avoided. ML type sequences are less vulnerable to correlation attack and jamming by the m-sequence of an NLFFL generator

We have developed an InP-based monolithic optical frequency discriminator consisting of a temperature-insensitive optical filter and dual photodiodes. This integrated device detects the optical frequency deviation of the input light as differential photocurrent from the dual photodiodes, and the photocurrent is fedback to the light source for frequency stabilization through a differential amplifier. The FSR and extinction ratio of the filter are 50 GHz and 20 dB. The total opto-electronic conversion efficiency is 40%. In a frequency stabilization experiment using the developed discriminator, the frequency fluctuation of a DFB laser was reduced to less than 10 MHz.

Recently, Kundur and Hatzinakos showed that a linear restoration filter designed by using the almost obvious a priori knowledge on the original image, such as (i) nonnegativity of the true image and (ii) the smallest rectangle encompassing the original object, can realize a remarkable performance for a blind image deconvolution problem. In this paper, we propose a new set-theoretic blind image deconvolution scheme based on a recently developed convex projection technique called Hybrid Steepest Descent Method (HSDM), where some partial information can be utilized set-theoretically by parallel projections onto convex sets while the others are incorporated in a cost function to be minimized by a steepest descent method. Numerical comparisons with the standard set-theoretic scheme based on POCS illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

This paper is concerned with blind identification of a nonminimum phase transfer function model. By over-sampling the output at a higher rate than the input, it is shown that its input-output relation can be described by a single input multiple output model (SIMO) with a common denominator polynomial. Based on the model expression, we present an algorithm to estimate numerator polynomials and common denominator polynomial in a blind manner. Furthermore, identifiability of the proposed scheme is clarified, and some numerical results are given for demonstrating its effectiveness.

This paper describes a spatial spectral subtraction method by using the complementary beamforming microphone array to enhance noisy speech signals for speech recognition. The complementary beamforming is based on two types of beamformers designed to obtain complementary directivity patterns with respect to each other. In this paper, it is shown that the nonlinear subtraction processing with complementary beamforming can result in a kind of the spectral subtraction without the need for speech pause detection. In addition, the optimization algorithm for the directivity pattern is also described. To evaluate the effectiveness, speech enhancement experiments and speech recognition experiments are performed based on computer simulations under both stationary and nonstationary noise conditions. In comparison with the optimized conventional delay-and-sum (DS) array, it is shown that: (1) the proposed array improves the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of degraded speech by about 2 dB and performs more than 20% better in word recognition rates under the conditions that the white Gaussian noise with the input SNR of -5 or -10 dB is used, (2) the proposed array performs more than 5% better in word recognition rates under the nonstationary noise conditions. Also, it is shown that these improvements of the proposed array are same as or superior to those of the conventional spectral subtraction method cascaded with the DS array.

Wavelet filters used in usual applications are not time-varying filters. In this paper, we present a novel method to design biorthogonal wavelet filters which are orthogonal to the input signals. We call newly designed filters time-varying lifting wavelet filters (TVLWF). Their feature is to vary the wavelet filters adapting to the input signal by tuning free parameters contained in the lifting scheme developed by Sweldens. These filters are almost compact support and perfect reconstruction. By using TVLWF, we demonstrate an application to data compression of electrocardiogram (ECG) which is one of the semi-periodic time-series signals and show that the time-varying system can be constructed easily and the proposed method is very useful for data compression.

WDM transmission experiments over cascaded sections of optical links including wavelength converting 2R-transponders have been carried out in a loop testbed. Using dispersion compensated links and simple direct modulated transponder lasers, up to 11 cascaded crossconnects and 1750 km trunk lines have been bridged with 2.5 Gbit/s NRZ signals. The limitations are given mainly due to the accumulated jitter as it is shown by numerical simulations. The results indicate, that 2R-transponders are a useful approach to a flexible WDM network design using bitrate-transparent wavelength conversion.

A clock recovery circuit is a key component in optical communication systems. In this paper, an optoelectronic clock recovery circuit is reported that monolithically integrates a resonant tunneling diode (RTD) and a uni-traveling-carrier photodiode (UTC-PD). The circuit is an injection-locked-type RTD oscillator that uses the photo-current generated by the UTC-PD. Fundamental and sub-harmonic clock extraction is confirmed for the first time with good clock recovery circuit characteristics. The IC extracts an electrical 11.55-GHz clock signal from 11.55-Gbit/s RZ optical data streams with the wide locking range of 450 MHz and low power dissipation of 1.3 mW. Furthermore, the extraction of a sub-harmonic clock from 23.1-Gbit/s and 46.2-Gbit/s input data streams is also confirmed in the wider locking range of 600 MHz. The RMS jitter as determined from a single sideband phase noise measurement is extremely low at less than 200 fs in both cases of clock and sub-harmonic clock extraction. To our knowledge, the product of the output power and operating frequency of the circuit is the highest ever reported for injection-locked-type RTD oscillators. These characteristics indicate the feasibility of the optoelectronic clock recovery circuit for use in future ultra-high-speed fully monolithic receivers.