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    • 专利摘要:
    The invention relates to a method for receiving a modulated received signal (So, R), comprising a transmission unit (10) comprising a laser (1) and an electroabsorption modulator (2). The invention provides that the received received optical signal (So, R) is directed to the laser (1), that due to the irradiation of the optical received signal (So, R) on the laser (1), the optical frequency (fL) of the Laser (1) radiated light (SL) to the optical frequency (fR) of the received received optical signal (So, R) adapted and / or equalized that emitted by the laser (1) light (SL) and via the optical waveguide ( 3) are superimposed in the electroabsorption modulator (2) such that the overlay signal thus generated is converted by the electroabsorption modulator (2) into an electrical reception signal (IR), in particular into an electrical current signal (IR), and a receive signal (SR) is provided, which corresponds to the electrical received signal (IR) or derived therefrom.
    公开号:AT520300A4
    申请号:T50606/2017
    申请日:2017-07-20
    公开日:2019-03-15
    发明作者:Bernhard Schrenk Dr
    申请人:Ait Austrian Institute Tech Gmbh；
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    The invention relates to a method for receiving an optical, modulated signal according to the preamble of claim 1. Furthermore, the invention relates to a transmission unit according to claim 9, which is particularly suitable for carrying out a method according to the invention. Moreover, the invention relates to a central node and an antenna node according to claims 13 and 15. Finally, the invention also relates to a data transmission network according to claim 17 and a data transmission network according to claim 19.
    Devices for transmitting data or signals comprising, on the one hand, a laser and, on the other hand, an electroabsorption modulator are known from the prior art. The light emitted by the laser is attenuated by the electroabsorption modulator, so that the light is modulated at the output of the electroabsorption modulator and can be coupled via an optical waveguide in a data network.
    The first object is to provide the possibility in such a configuration to transmit or receive data or signals with the same transmission unit.
    The invention relates to a method for receiving a modulated, in particular amplitude-modulated, preferably by modulation of light created, optical reception signal, - comprising a transmission unit comprising a laser with an electrical input for controlling the laser current and the frequency of the light emitted by the laser light, wherein the laser an optical laser output, as well as an optical absorption downstream laser absorption modulator having an electrical modulation terminal, - wherein the laser is directed to the electroabsorption modulator and the light of the laser is passed through the electroabsorption modulator and coupled to an optical port of the electroabsorption modulator in an optical waveguide becomes.
    According to the invention, in a method for receiving such an optical reception signal, it is provided that the received optical reception signal is directed onto the laser at an optical frequency within a predetermined optical frequency range via the optical waveguide through the electroabsorption modulator, that the laser is controlled by controlling the electrical signal Input is preset to a predetermined optical frequency, which is within an optical frequency range, in particular within +/- 1 GHz to the optical frequency of the received optical received signal, - that due to the irradiation of the optical received signal to the laser, the optical frequency of the Laser emitted light is adapted to the optical frequency of the received received optical signal and / or equalized, - that the light emitted by the laser light and received via the optical waveguide optical received signal in Elektroabsorptio nsmodulator be superimposed that the overlay signal thus created by the electroabsorption modulator is converted into an electrical reception signal, in particular an electrical current signal, which preferably corresponds to the current waveform at the electrical modulation terminal of the electroabsorption modulator, and - a reception signal is provided which corresponds to the electrical reception signal or is derived from this, and at a signal terminal, in particular as a current or voltage signal, is available.
    The invention also relates to a method for receiving a modulated received signal with a transmission unit comprising a laser and an electroabsorption modulator. The invention provides that the received optical received signal is directed to the laser that, due to the irradiation of the optical received signal to the laser, the optical frequency of the laser-emitted light is adapted and / or adjusted to the optical frequency of the received received optical signal the light emitted by the laser and the receiving optical signal received via the optical waveguide are superimposed in the electroabsorption modulator, that the superimposed signal thus generated is converted by the electroabsorption modulator into an electrical reception signal, in particular into an electrical current signal, and a reception signal is provided electrical reception signal corresponds to or derived from this.
    This measure makes it possible in a simple manner to operate a known combination of a laser and an electroabsorption modulator for receiving optical signals.
    In addition, for the simultaneous transmission and reception of data, in particular in duplex mode, it may be provided that a) a transmit signal to be transmitted is provided as an electrical transmission signal, in particular as an electrical voltage signal, b) that the electrical transmission signal is a voltage signal during the inventive Reception is applied to the modulation terminal of the electroabsorption modulator and thus by modulation of the laser generated light an optical transmission signal created in the optical waveguide is coupled, c) that detected by the Elektroabsorptionsmodulator current is determined and such a current signal is created, the default in this electrical transmission signal from Electroabsorption modulator is recorded, d) that is modeled on the basis of predetermined criteria that temporal current profile, which is at a given irradiation of the electroabsorption modulator by the light of the laser and a r given signal loading with the electrical transmission signal at the electrical modulation terminal of the electroabsorption modulator results when no optical received signal is received via the optical waveguide or an optical received signal is received, which does not contain a modulated signal, and this current waveform is kept as a modeled current waveform, e) that the difference between the current profile measured in step c) and the current profile modeled in step d) is formed, and f) that this difference is assumed to be derived from the optical received signal and provided as a received signal.
    A preferred embodiment, which takes into account the changing propagation properties of light waves in the optical waveguide, in particular temporally varying polarization behavior of the optical waveguide, provides that the light of the laser is additionally directed to a further electroabsorption modulator, that the optical connections of the two electroabsorption modulators be connected to one of the two polarization inputs of a polarization beam splitter and the output of the polarization beam splitter is coupled to the optical waveguide, - that with each Elektroabsorptionsmodulatoren an electrical reception signal is determined, wherein the electrical received signal is held with the higher signal strength as a received signal.
    A preferred embodiment of the invention, which enables a duplex operation in such a case in a simple manner, provides that the electroabsorption modulator is used for sending the optical transmission signal, at which the respective weaker electrical received signal was determined, wherein in particular the transmitted signal to be transmitted, preferably in the form of an electrical voltage signal is applied to the modulation terminal of that electroabsorption modulator at which the respective weaker electrical received signal is determined.
    A further advantageous embodiment of the invention, which allows a duplex operation in time-multiplexing, provides that for generating a modulated optical reception signal light with a predetermined optical frequency is modulated with a signal to be transmitted, and wherein alternately in successive periods - signals according to a inventive method are received, wherein the optical frequency of the laser is set to the predetermined optical frequency, and - is then emitted in the respective subsequent period of light at the same predetermined optical frequency from the laser to the electroabsorption modulator and a transmitted signal to be transmitted, in particular in the form of an electric Voltage signal is set at the electrical modulation terminal of the electroabsorption modulator, so that the light passing through the electroabsorption modulator attenuated according to the transmitted signal to be transmitted and the optical transmission signal thus obtained is coupled into the optical waveguide and transmitted.
    A further advantageous embodiment of the invention, which allows a duplex operation in the frequency multiplex, provides that - to generate the received signal, a data signal is modulated with a predetermined first electrical frequency, so that it has frequency components within the first frequency range by the predetermined electrical frequency and the thus obtained signal is then used to modulate light having a predetermined optical frequency and such an optical modulated received signal is obtained, - that this received signal is obtained in accordance with a method according to the invention using light of the predetermined optical frequency and such an electrical received signal is obtained having frequency components within a predetermined first electrical frequency range, and - at the same time an electrical transmission signal, the signal components within and different from the first frequency band m is applied to the electroabsorption modulator and emitted by the laser light at the predetermined optical frequency to the electroabsorption modulator, - so that the passing through the electroabsorption modulator light is attenuated in accordance with the transmitted signal to be transmitted and the optical transmission signal thus obtained is coupled into the optical waveguide and transmitted.
    A particularly advantageous mode of operation of a mobile radio network for transmitting signals from a central node to an antenna node provides that a data signal, in particular previously received via a data network, is provided in the central node and subsequently modulated with at least one frequency prescribed by an oscillator and such a modulated electrical signal is created, - being provided by means of a central transmission unit due to the modulated electrical signal, an optical modulated signal and coupled into the optical waveguide and one of the antenna nodes, - wherein due to the optical signal thus generated in the antenna node according to a the preceding claims, a received signal is determined by means of an antenna-side transmission unit and provided at the signal terminal of the antenna-side transmission unit, and - wherein the received signal, possibly verst poor, preferably in the form of a current or voltage signal, is transmitted to the antenna of the antenna node and is emitted by this.
    An essential advantage of this method is that it is not necessary that in the individual antenna nodes oscillators for the transposition or frequency conversion of the received signals and no digital-to-analog converter must be present, as between the antenna node and the central node signals optically and be transmitted modulated.
    Particularly preferred may be provided for the transmission of signals from mobile terminals via an antenna node and a central node in a data network, - that received from the antenna of the antenna node modulated electromagnetic signals, in particular mobile radio signals, received and, possibly amplified, to the signal terminal of the antenna-side transmission unit the antenna node forwarded, and the antenna-side transmission unit according to one of the preceding claims, an optical signal is generated and transmitted via the optical fiber to the central node, - that receive this optical signal in the central node and in particular according to a method according to the invention, by means of the central transmission unit, in an electrical signal is converted, that this electrical signal is demodulated using a predetermined frequency from the oscillator and the thus demodulated data signal in the central notes are available and, if necessary, transmitted via the data network.
    According to the invention, a transmission unit for receiving an optical reception signal is additionally provided - a laser with an electrical input and an optical laser output, - at least one circuit connected downstream of the laser optical output of the laser
    An electroabsorption modulator having an electrical modulation terminal and an optical terminal for optically coupling the electroabsorption modulator to an optical waveguide, the laser being aligned and positioned on the optical port of the electroabsorption modulator such that the laser light exits the electroabsorption modulator at the optical port and that of the optical Connection directed from the electroabsorption on the modulator light is directed to the laser, wherein the electroabsorption modulator is adapted to superimpose light emitted by the laser light and received at the optical connector receiving optical signal, and to provide at its electrical modulation terminal an electrical reception signal which is a beat signal of the Laser emitted light and the optical reception signal corresponds, and - one with the electrical input of the laser and the electrical
    Modulation terminal of the electroabsorption modulator connected to an electrical signal terminal, wherein the control unit is adapted to - set the laser current and the frequency of the laser emitted light via the electrical input of the laser to a value within an optical frequency range, in particular in the range of + / - 1 GHz around the
    Wavelength of the light guided in the optical waveguide or the optical frequency of the received received optical signal, and - to analyze the received electrical signal at the electrical modulation terminal of the electroabsorption modulator and to provide a receiving signal received at the optical terminal receiving optical signal correspondingly available.
    Such a transmission unit makes it possible, with a simple structure with known components for transmitting optical signals, to create a transmission unit which is also capable of receiving optical signals.
    In addition, for the simultaneous transmission and reception of data, in particular in duplex mode, it can be provided that the control unit is also designed to generate an electrical transmission signal based on the transmission signal applied to its signal connection during the reception of signals at the Apply modulation terminal of the electroabsorption modulator, - to determine the current absorbed by the electroabsorption modulator and to generate a current signal, - to model those temporal current course, which at a given irradiation of the electroabsorption modulator by the light of the laser and a predetermined signal applied to the electric Modulating connection of the electroabsorption modulator results when no optical reception signal arrives via the optical waveguide or receives an optical reception signal which contains no modulated signal, and this S To make tromverlauf available as a modeled current waveform, - to form the difference between the measured current waveform and the modeled current waveform, and to provide this difference or a derived signal waveform as a received signal.
    A preferred embodiment, which takes into account the changing propagation properties of light waves in the optical waveguide, in particular temporally varying polarization behavior of the optical waveguide, provides - that a further electroabsorption modulator is provided, to which the light of the laser is directed, - that the optical ports the two electroabsorption modulators are connected to one of the two polarization inputs of a polarization beam splitter and the output of the polarization beam splitter is coupled to the optical waveguide, - both electroabsorption modulators are each designed to detect an electrical reception signal at their electrical modulation connection, and - the control unit is designed for this purpose is to keep that electrical received signal with the higher signal strength as a received signal at its signal terminal available.
    A preferred embodiment of the invention, which enables a duplex operation in such a case in a simple manner, provides that the control unit is adapted to select that electroabsorption modulator for sending the optical transmission signal, on which it has determined the respective weaker electrical received signal it applies the transmit signal to be transmitted, in particular in the form of an electrical voltage signal, to the modulation terminal of that electroabsorption modulator on which it has detected the respective weaker electrical received signal.
    A preferred central node, with which it is possible within a mobile network to transmit optical signals such that they need not be modulated in the antenna node and therefore in the antenna node no oscillator or frequency converter and no digital-to-analog converter needs to be present , provides: - A data exchange unit with at least one data connection for connection to a data network, at least one modulation connection and at least one frequency input, - an oscillator connected to the frequency input, wherein the oscillator for generating frequency signals according to predetermined criteria and for transmitting the frequency signals to the Frequency input is formed, and - at least one central transmission unit according to the invention, wherein the signal terminal of the central transmission unit is connected to a modulation terminal of the data switching unit and an optical fiber in the optical port d it is adapted to modulate a data signal arriving at the data connection via the data network according to a predetermined modulation method to at least one frequency signal transmitted by the oscillator to the frequency input and to provide it as modulated transmission signal at the modulation connection and according to predetermined criteria to transmit corresponding central transmission unit and - to demodulate a received via the modulation terminal of the central transmission unit received signal according to a predetermined demodulation by means of a frequency signal predetermined by the oscillator and provide the first electrical data port as a demodulated data signal and forward it to the data network.
    Particularly preferably, for transmitting signals from the advantageous central node to one of the antenna nodes, it may be provided that the central transmission unit is preferably designed to: - generate light by means of a laser and direct it to an electroabsorption modulator, and thus - connect a signal to the central transmission unit of the Provide data transmission unit incoming transmission signal as a modulated optical transmission signal at the optical port, coupled into the optical waveguide, and in particular to transmit an antenna node, and - a, in particular from an antenna node, via the optical waveguide at the optical port incoming optical received signal as a received signal at the signal terminal available and transmit to the data exchange unit.
    An antenna node for the wireless transmission of data to a mobile device with an antenna that can process optical signals in a simple way and in particular requires no own oscillator, frequency converter or digital-to-analog converter, provides: - A mobile antenna, the mobile antenna to do so is formed to connect to the mobile device in radio communication, - at least one antenna-side transmission unit according to the invention, the signal terminal is connected to the antenna, and - one connected to the optical port of the antenna-side transmission unit optical fiber.
    In this case, it can be provided, in particular, that the antenna-side transmission unit is designed in particular to generate light by means of a laser and to direct it to an electroabsorption modulator, thus providing a signal arriving at its signal connection from the amplifier as a modulated optical signal at the optical connection, into the optical waveguide to couple, and in particular to transmit to a central node, and - to provide a, in particular from a central node, via the optical waveguide at the optical connection incoming optical signal as a transmission signal at the signal terminal and to transmit via the bidirectional amplifier to the mobile radio antenna.
    To amplify the signals before the signal transmission, it may be provided that the antenna node comprises a bidirectional amplifier connected to the mobile radio antenna, which is connected to the signal connection of the antenna-side transmission unit, and which is designed to amplify the data picked up by the mobile radio antenna and forward as received electrical signal to the signal port of the antenna-side transmission unit, and - amplify from the antenna-side transmission unit to its provided signals and forward it to the mobile radio antenna for transmission.
    A data transmission network, in which the aforementioned antenna nodes are connected to a central node, and eliminates the need for a separate oscillator, frequency converter or digital-to-analog converter is present in the individual antenna nodes, provides: - A central node according to the invention and - A plurality of antenna nodes according to the invention, wherein in each case the optical port of the antenna-side transmission unit of the antenna node and the optical port of the central transmission units of the central node are connected to each other via an optical waveguide, and preferably at least one standing in wireless communication with the mobile radio antennas, mobile device.
    A data exchange network, with which in a simple manner a plurality of transmission units according to the invention with each other in
    Data communication connection can be brought, provides: - A central interface with terminals and - a plurality of transmission units according to the invention, wherein the respective optical port of the individual transmission units is respectively connected to a port of the interface by means of an optical waveguide, - wherein the interface is adapted to to distribute with her over one of the optical fibers einlangende, optical signals and forward to the other transmission units, - wherein each transmission unit is assigned at least one transmission and reception frequency and wherein in the respective control unit each of the transmission units each deposited the transmission and reception frequencies associated transmission units are, and - wherein the control units of the transmission units are adapted, in the case of data transmission, their laser by driving the respective electrical input to an op table frequency, which is in an optical frequency range, in particular of +/- 1 GHz to the optical frequency of the selected for the reception of the transmission unit.
    1 shows a first embodiment of a transmission unit 10 according to the invention. FIG. 2 shows a spectral frequency diagram of the light of the laser in the optical plane with modulated optical signal to be received in the starting situation. Fig. 3 shows a spectral frequency diagram of the light of the laser and the optical signal to be received in the optical plane after the adjustment of the laser frequency by injection locking Fig. 4 shows a frequency diagram of the electric baseband received signal in the electrical plane after the adjustment of the laser frequency fL at fR by Injection Locking. Fig. 5 shows a frequency diagram in the optical plane using a plurality of optical signal frequencies. Figures 5a and 5b show the optical and electrical signals occurring in an advantageous embodiment of the invention using frequency multiplexing. FIG. 6 shows a preferred embodiment for considering changing polarization properties of light waves in the optical waveguide. FIG. 7 shows an overview of a data transmission network for mobile communications. Fig. 8 shows a central node of the data transmission network shown in Fig. 7 in detail. FIG. 9 shows an antenna node of the data transmission network shown in FIG
    Detail. Fig. 10 shows a data transmission network according to a preferred embodiment of the invention.
    The transmission unit shown in Fig. 1 according to a first embodiment of the invention comprises a laser 1 having an electrical input 11, with which the laser current used in the creation of the light SL lL can be controlled. By specifying the laser current IL, the wavelength or frequency of the light emitted by the laser 1 SL can be set.
    The frequency of the light SL emitted by the laser 1 is also dependent on the temperature of the laser 1. This circumstance can be used to roughly specify the frequency of the light SL. The fine control of the frequency of the light SL can be carried out by varying the laser current I L. In addition, the laser 1 can be temperature stabilized, whereby the effects of fluctuations in the temperature on the frequency of the light SL can be avoided. Furthermore, the laser 1 has an optical laser output 12, from which the light SL generated by the laser 1 is radiated.
    Electroabsorption modulators, such as the electroabsorption modulator 2 shown in Figure 1, are known in the art, for example, from the following publication: T. Ido et al., IEEE Phot. Tech. Lett., Vol. 6, no. 10, pp. 1207-1209 (1994). Such electroabsorption modulators can be co-integrated with laser elements such as the laser 1 on a chip.
    This electroabsorption modulator 2 has the property that light SL entering it from the laser 1 is attenuated as a function of the voltage applied to the electrical modulation terminal 21 of the electroabsorption modulator 2 and emitted as an outgoing optical signal S0, t via an optical port 22 and into an optical waveguide 3 is coupled. The electrical current I R flowing through the electrical modulation terminal 21 of the electroabsorption modulator 2 is approximately proportional to the amount of light which is taken from the light SL emitted by the laser 1 and is not forwarded to the transmitted optical signal S 0, t.
    The present electroabsorption modulator 2 additionally has the property that a received optical reception signal S0, r coming from the optical waveguide 3 at the optical port 22 is partly forwarded to the laser 1, the electroabsorption modulator 2 being dependent on the signal received at it , Received optical signal S0, r a received electrical signal lR, in the present case in the form of a current signal, created and ready at its electrical modulation terminal 21 ready. This current signal I R is proportional to the light power or light intensity prevailing in the electro-absorption modulator 2. Since the frequency of the light SL output from the laser 1 is set approximately equal to that of the received optical signal S0, R and the difference of the frequencies is smaller than the electro-optical bandwidth of the electroabsorption modulator 2, coherent optical detection of the received optical signal S0, R results in contrast to direct optical detection without a local optical oscillator, in the form of a laser 1 gives the generally known advantages of a higher detection sensitivity and frequency selectivity, ie Signal filtering takes place during the detection.
    A received according to a voltage signal controllable portion of the received at the electroabsorption modulator 2, receiving, received optical signal S0, r is directed through the electroabsorption modulator 2 on the laser 1. In this case, it is ensured beforehand by driving and adjusting the laser current IL that the light SL emitted by the laser 1 has a predetermined optical frequency which is close to the optical frequency of the incoming optical received signal S0, R.
    The received electrical signal I R is forwarded to a control unit 5, which is also designed to apply a predetermined voltage signal to the electrical modulation terminal 21 of the electroabsorption modulator 2 so as to regulate the permeability of the electroabsorption modulator 2. In addition, the control unit 5 is also designed to set the laser current IL such that the light SL emitted by the laser 1 has a predetermined optical frequency.
    The control unit 5 has a signal connection 51 via which bidirectional data can preferably also be transmitted. If an electrical received signal I R in the form of a current signal is provided by the electroabsorption modulator 2, this current signal is measured by the control unit 5 and a reception signal SR which corresponds to this current signal I R is made available at the signal terminal 51 of the control unit 5.
    For transmitting optical signals S0, t by means of the transmission unit 10 shown in FIG. 1, a transmission signal ST is preset at the signal terminal 51 of the control unit 5, which in the present case is forwarded as an electrical voltage signal to the electrical modulation terminal 21 of the electroabsorption modulator 2.
    FIG. 2 shows a spectral, optical frequency diagram of the light SL of the laser 1 and the received optical signal S0, r in the starting situation. The frequency fL of the light SL is in the present embodiment of the invention within an optical frequency range F of typically ± 1 GHz by the optical frequency fR of the received optical signal S0, r. Likewise, the frequency f L of the light SL of the laser 1 can be set to be within an optical frequency range F of typically ± 1 GHz by a predetermined optical frequency predetermined for the transmission of the optical reception signal S0, r.
    The fact that the received signal S0, r, which has approximately the same frequency as the light SL emitted by the laser 1, thus radiates onto the laser 1, leads to an effect known as "injection locking", in which the frequency of the ( "Slave" - laser 1 of emitted light SL to the optical ("master") frequency of the received optical signal S0, r. This results in the decisive advantage of the present method: The coherent-optical detection of the optical received signal S0, r does not occur with approximate adaptation of the optical frequencies of the laser 1 and the signal S0, r, which corresponds to the case of intradyne detection, but with exact adaptation of these frequencies, which corresponds to the case of homodyne detection. In contrast to the intradyne detection, which require an enormous amount of computation for the purpose of signal processing and recovery of the information signal, the attractive properties of homodyne detection, which otherwise can only be achieved with complex phase-locked loops, result are enormous advantages in cost and energy efficiency in the implementation of a transmission unit 10.
    FIG. 3 shows a spectral optical frequency diagram of the light SL of the laser 1 and the received optical signal S0, r after the adaptation of the laser frequency fL by injection locking. This now has the significant advantage that due to the same frequencies of the light SL of the laser 1 and the received optical received signal S0, r, a superposition takes place, in which the signals contained in the received, received optical signal S0, r come to lie exactly in the baseband ("Homodyne detection") and therefore particularly easy, so without additional digital signal processing for the purpose of frequency offset correction, read and can be particularly easily identified in the electrical received signal lR.
    The superimposition of the light SL of the laser 1 and of the received optical received signal S0, r produces a current signal which is approximately proportional to the product of the field strengths of the light SL and the received signal S0, r. Due to the equalization of the frequency fL of the laser 1 to the central frequency fR of the received signal S0, R, the frequency band produced by the received signal S0, R is mapped into a frequency range around 0 Hz and therefore ends up in the electrical baseband (FIG. 4). Due to the injection-locking effect, the low frequency components can be suppressed depending on the optical reception power. By suitable transmitter-side coding of the received signal S0, R, this can be compensated, for example by using mean-free codes, such as the alternative mark-inversion coding method.
    The optical frequencies are advantageously in the range of 150-800 THz. If, for example, red light is used for data transmission, one obtains a typical light frequency f L, f R of 430 THz, for example. Fiber-bound optical communication uses light frequencies around 190 THz to minimize transmission losses. The bandwidth of the signal modulated in the optical signal So can be chosen in the range of a few GHz, depending on the number of parallel selected optical carrier frequencies fL1, fL2,..., But in the context of broadband information signals within the range of typically 100 GHz range.
    If a plurality of optical signals S0, i So, 2 So, 3 with a plurality of carrier frequencies are to be transmitted via a single optical waveguide 3, the carrier frequencies fL, i = | fR, i - fi_ | (with fL = fR, 0 by injection locking), fL, 2, fL, 3 be so far apart from each other that the modulation caused by the distribution of the respective band does not lead to a crosstalk of the signals. For example, if a transmission bandwidth of 6 GHz is chosen for the information signal, as is customary in newer mobile networks, then the individual carrier frequencies - using a safety band to each other and additional modulation technique, such as single sideband modulation or more complex methods such as orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, then with about 10 GHz, as shown in Fig. 5.
    It is particularly advantageous to modulate the light SL of the laser 1 in the transmission of data with already modulated electrical signals. For example, a data signal which is to be transmitted via mobile radio can be modulated to an electrical carrier frequency in the range of a few GHz which is typical for mobile communications. Subsequently, the thus modulated electrical signal is used as an electrical transmission signal UT and thus by means of a transmission unit 10 shown in Fig. 1, an optical signal S0, i created, which are transmitted via an optical waveguide 3 and another, in particular also one in Fig. 1st represented, transmission unit 10 is received. After the reception and the demodulation carried out in the electroabsorption modulator 2, there is a reception signal lR which corresponds to the electrical transmission signal UT and which lies on the exact same carrier frequency which was provided for the information signal. It should be noted that there is no need for electrical modulation at the receiving transmission unit 10, since the electrical signal is already modulated. In this context, alternatively, several of these information signals can be transmitted simultaneously to a plurality of narrow-adjacent carrier frequencies or these are transmitted to lower intermediate frequencies, for example in the frequency band from 0 to 10 GHz, and then to very high carrier frequencies, such as in the range of 60-80 GHz, transposed. In each case, there is the advantage that the originally selected carrier frequencies are retained since, according to the method, no frequency offset occurs in the coherent-optical detection.
    In the following, a variant of the invention will be described with reference to FIG. 1, with which an incoming, optical signal S0, R can be received at the same time and with which an optical transmission signal S0, t can be transmitted. For the purpose of generating and transmitting the transmission signal S0, t, the control unit 5 sets the voltage applied to the electrical modulation terminal 21 of the electroabsorption modulator 2 in accordance with the data contained in the transmission signal ST to a predetermined value determined by an electrical voltage signal.
    By this measure, the light emitted from the laser SL 1 is attenuated in accordance with the electrical transmission signal UT and exits from the electroabsorption modulator 2 as an optical transmission signal S0, t out.
    As in the first embodiment of the invention, the recorded by the electro-absorption modulator 2 current lR, which arises upon specification of the electrical transmission signal UT of the electroabsorption modulator 2 and upon irradiation with the incoming, received optical signal S0, R, measured.
    As a result of the fact that the optical signal S0, r arriving at the optical port 22 of the electroabsorption modulator 2 contains data, a current is produced at the electrical modulation port 21 of the electroabsorption modulator 2 which deviates from the modeled current profile I R, m.
    In order to be able to isolate the effects of the optical received signal S0, r on the current profile lR and to determine and eliminate the influences of the electrical transmitted signal UT on the current profile, the temporal current profile lR, m is modeled at a given irradiation of the electroabsorption modulator 2 by the laser 1 and the predetermined signal application at the electrical modulation terminal 21 of the electroabsorption modulator 2, if no optical reception signal S0, r is received above the optical waveguide 3, or an optical reception signal S0, r is received which contains no modulated signal. This can be done by calibration using known optical input and output signals.
    Subsequently, the difference .DELTA.Ι between the measured current waveform lR and the modeled current waveform lR, m is formed, which can be accomplished by known signal processing algorithms in the digital level or by high-frequency circuit technology in the analog level. This difference ΔΙ is now assumed to originate from the optical received signal S0, r and provided as received signal SR or used for the production of the received signal SR. With this measure, it is possible to exclude those influences that flow in the context of the transmission of the transmission signal ST existing effects on the electrical modulation terminal 21 of the Elektroabsorptionsmodulators 2 and despite the application of the Elektroabsorptionsmodulators 2 with an electrical transmission signal UT a the incoming, optical received signal S0 to create r corresponding received signal SR. Thus, it is also possible to operate the present arrangement in full-duplex mode.
    Alternatively, it is of course possible to operate the transmission unit 10 in the generally known half-duplex mode, so that a transmission signal ST and a reception signal SR do not overlap in time. In this case, to generate a modulated optical received signal S0, r light is modulated with a predetermined optical frequency fR with a signal to be transmitted. Subsequently, a reception step and a transmission step are alternately performed in successive time periods.
    As described above, during the reception step within a first time period, adjusting the optical frequency fL of the laser 1 to the predetermined optical frequency fR, an optical reception signal S0, R is received and, as described above, demodulated and converted into an electrical reception signal IR and further processed by the control unit 5.
    As part of a subsequent transmission step within a subsequent second time period, light SL is emitted from the laser 1 to the electroabsorption modulator 2 at the same predetermined optical frequency f L. Furthermore, a transmission signal ST to be transmitted, in particular in the form of an electrical voltage signal, will be present at the electrical modulation connection 21 of the electroabsorption modulator 2. It is thereby achieved that the light passing through the electroabsorption modulator 2 is attenuated in accordance with the transmitted signal ST to be transmitted, and the thus attenuated optical transmission signal S0, t is coupled into the optical waveguide 3 and transmitted.
    Another alternative is to use multiplexing to separate the transmit signal ST and the receive signal SR in full duplex mode. An attractive example of this would be the commonly used frequency multiplexing, so that transmit and receive signals ST, SR in different electrical frequency ranges, but with the same optical carrier frequency, transmitted and crosstalk can be suppressed by filtering.
    The signals occurring in the context of frequency multiplexing are shown in greater detail in FIGS. 5a and 5b.
    In the context of frequency multiplexing, the transmission unit 10 is supplied with an optical modulated received signal S0, i, in the production of which a data signal Dj is modulated with a predetermined first electrical frequency fj. This gives a signal S1; the frequency components within the first frequency range Feh1 by the predetermined electrical frequency feL1 has. The signal Sj thus obtained is then used to modulate light having a predetermined optical frequency f L. Obtained in this way an optical modulated received signal S0, R.
    This received signal S0, i is obtained, as described in connection with the first embodiment of the invention, using light SL with the predetermined optical frequency fL. In this case, an electrical received signal lR is obtained, the frequency components within a predetermined first electrical frequency range Fei, i has.
    Simultaneously with receiving the data in the first electric frequency band FeL1, data is sent in the second electric frequency band Fei, 2. In this case, an electrical transmission signal UT is used, the signal components within one of the first frequency band Fei, i different and non-overlapping with this and spaced therefrom, electric frequency band Fei, 2 has. This electrical transmission signal UT can be created by modulating a data signal D2, wherein the same electrical modulation method can be used as in the creation of signals Si.
    The electric transmission signal UT is applied to the electroabsorption modulator 2. At the same time, light SL having the predetermined optical frequency f L is emitted to the electroabsorption modulator 2 by means of the laser 1. In this way, the light passing through the electroabsorption modulator 2 is attenuated in accordance with the electrical transmission signal UT to be transmitted, and the optical transmission signal S0, t thus obtained is coupled into the optical waveguide 3 and transmitted.
    FIG. 6 shows a preferred second embodiment of the invention, which is preferably tuned to the polarization of the light passing over the optical waveguide 3. The essential background of this embodiment is that, due to physical effects on the optical waveguide 3, in particular due to thermal effects or mechanical influences, the polarization of the light Sor, S0, t transmitted via the optical waveguide 3 is subject to temporal fluctuations and, for the present case, to coherent optical detection the polarization states of local light SL from the laser 1 and incoming optical signal S0, r to be received are ideally equal. In addition, by tuning the incoming polarization state, the generally polarization-selective properties of the electroabsorption modulators 2, 2 'used can be prevented. In the present second embodiment of the invention, there is a laser 1, which has an electrical input 11 and which has an optical laser output 12, the two electroabsorption modulators 2, 2 'are connected downstream. The design of the laser 1 or of the electroabsorption modulators 2, 2 'preferably corresponds to the design of the laser 1 and of the electroabsorption modulator 2 in the first exemplary embodiment of the invention. As in the first embodiment of the invention, light SL produced by laser 1 is relayed to both electroabsorption modulators 2, 2 '. Both electrical modulation terminals 21, 21 'of the two electroabsorption modulators 2, 2' are led to a common control unit 5. Moreover, as in the first embodiment of the invention, the control unit 5 is connected to the electrical input 11 of the laser 1, which serves to control the frequency f L of the light SL.
    The two optical connections 22, 22 'of the electroabsorption modulators 2, 2' are connected to the two polarization inputs 41, 41 'of a polarization beam splitter 4. The common output 42 of the polarization beam splitter 4 is coupled into the optical waveguide 3. The basic functionality of the transmission unit 10 shown in FIG. 2 corresponds to the transmission unit 10 shown in FIG. 1. Of course, the two electroabsorption modulators 2, 2 'can also be fed by two separate lasers 1, 1', which are constructed in accordance with the previously described method Injection locking adapt to the incoming optical frequency fR of the received optical signal S0, r. In general, however, one will use the photonic integration to accomplish the device as in Fig. 6 with only one laser 1.
    A significant feature in the present case is that the received optical signal S0, r can be received regardless of its polarization, wherein depending on the polarization state of the incoming optical received signal S0, r of the two electroabsorption modulators 2, 2 ', an electrical received signal IR, Ir 'is created. The electrical received signal IR, which is applied to the electrical modulation terminal 21 of the first electroabsorption modulator 2, depends on its size in how strongly the incoming optical received signal S0, r is aligned with the polarization direction of the first polarization input 41 of the polarization beam splitter 4. The electrical received signal IR ', which is applied to the electrical modulation terminal 21' of the second electroabsorption modulator 2 'depends on its size depending on how strongly the incoming, received optical signal S0, R according to the polarization direction of the second polarization input 41' of the polarization beam splitter 4 is aligned.
    If an optical received signal S0, r, which is polarized substantially in the first direction of polarization, now arrives, signal portions originating from the signal are essentially located in the electrical received signal IR, which is applied to the electrical modulation terminal 21 of the first electroabsorption modulator 2. On the other hand, an optical received signal S0, r arrives, which essentially follows the second
    Polarization direction is polarized, so find the signal components resulting from the signal substantially in the electrical received signal lR ', which is applied to the electrical modulation terminal 21' of the second electroabsorption modulator 2 '. By using a polarization beam splitter 4, which conducts orthogonal polarization directions to the two electroabsorption modulators 2, 2 ', a signal can thus always be received independently of the incoming polarization state of the light, which in the worst case only by a known factor of about 0.5 from at least one of the electroabsorption modulators is received attenuated.
    The control unit 5 subsequently determines which of the two electrical received signals IR, IR 'is greater or has the greater signal energy or signal strength and draws respectively the received signals IR', IR 'with the greater signal energy or signal strength for the preparation of the received signal SR zoom.
    In the embodiment shown in FIG. 6, it is now possible to use one of the two electroabsorption modulators 2, 2 'for sending signals. If the greater signal strength or signal energy is detected in one of the two electroabsorption modulators 2, 2 ', then in each case the other electroabsorption modulator 2, 2' is used for sending signals. The control unit 5, which has already determined in which of the two electroabsorption modulators 2, 2 'the greater signal strength or signal energy, selects for transmitting the transmitted signal ST to be respectively the electroabsorption modulator 2, 2' from which the respective weaker signal energy or signal strength goes out and applies to the electrical modulation terminal 21, 21 'of this electroabsorption modulator 2, 2' to an electric transmission signal UT, which corresponds to the transmission signal ST. Because of this electrical transmission signal UT of the relevant electroabsorption modulator 2, 2 'causes to create an optical transmission signal S0, T, which is coupled into one of the two polarization inputs 41, 41' of the polarization splitter 4 and accordingly present at the output 42 of the polarization splitter 4 and is coupled into the optical waveguide 3.
    Of course, according to the above-described function of the device, it is also possible to operate both electroabsorption modulators 2, 2 'in transmitting function or in receiving function or to change the functions of the electroabsorption modulators 2, 2' in time. This makes it possible to flexibly adapt the data rate to the respective situation with regard to the required data throughput. In the case that both
    Electroabsorption modulators 2, 2 'are operated in receive function, also the generally known polarization multiplexing can be used to increase the data throughput.
    A further preferred embodiment of the invention, which allows use in mobile communications, is shown in more detail in FIGS. 7 to 9. FIG. 7 shows an overview of a data transmission network 40 for mobile communications. With such an embodiment, a method for transmitting signals from a central node 30 to an antenna node 20a, 20b, 20c provided with a mobile radio antenna 24a, 24b, 24c and remote from the central node 30 is provided. In mobile radio, there is basically the task of bringing a remote mobile device 6a, 6b, 6c, which in each case has a transmitting and receiving antenna 61a, 61b, 61c, into data communication with a data network 34. This can be done for example for the transmission of calls or data.
    Which data from the network 34 to the individual mobile devices 6a, 6b, 6c are forwarded, is of little importance, since the data transmission is ultimately in most cases in the form of a modulated signal. The data transmission from a network 34 to a mobile device 6a, 6b, 6c and the data transmission from a mobile device 6a, 6b, 6c to the data transmission network 34 will now be described in greater detail below.
    First, data Dj is transmitted from the data transmission network 34 to the central node 30 (Figure 8). In the central node 30, the data Dj is received by a data exchange unit 36, the data Dj being transmitted to a data terminal 36a, 36b, 36c of the data exchange unit 36. The central node 30 has an oscillator 37 which transmits to the switching unit 36 different frequency signals f1; f2 transmitted in each case with a different frequency. These frequency signals f1; f2 long at the switching unit 36 at the designated frequency inputs 36f1; 36f2. Such an oscillator 37 creates the
    Data transmission a frequency signal whose frequency is very stable over time and subject to no frequency fluctuations. Since the creation of such a frequency signal is highly temperature-dependent, the provision of a stable oscillator 37 is possible only with great effort and expense.
    Accordingly, it is advantageous that such an oscillator 37 is located in the central node 30 and not at the antenna nodes 20a, 20b, 20c connected to the central node 30, but remote. Even if a central node 30 is in data communication with a large number of antenna nodes 20a, 20b, 20c, it is advantageous if only a single central oscillator 37 is used. This can be arranged in particular in an air-conditioned server room in order to avoid fluctuations. Similarly, to save costs due to this consolidation of technological functions in a central node 30, a higher quality, centralized oscillator 37 can be used.
    If, as will be shown, no oscillators 37 are required in the area of the antenna nodes, then the need to provide appropriate air conditioning for producing an oscillator 37 at individual mobile radio sites or antenna nodes 20a, 20b, 20c is also eliminated, resulting in great cost savings can be achieved.
    The individual frequency signals f1 produced by the oscillator 37; f2 are supplied to the data switching unit 36. This determines, depending on the frequency required for mobile communications as well as the specified in the data packet Dj receiver information, the frequency that is required for transmission to the receiver, as well as those antenna nodes 20a, 20b, 20c or mobile radio location, where the receiver of relevant data signal Dj is reached.
    In the present case, the data switching unit 36 selects the frequency signal f2 to modulate the data signal Dj and transmits this data via the modulation port 360a to a central transmission unit 310a. The data exchange unit 36 additionally has two further central transmission units 310a, 310b, 310c, which are each connected to a connection 360a, 360b, 360c of the data exchange unit 36. In the present exemplary embodiment, the signals output by the data exchange unit 36 via the modulation connections 360a, 360b, 360c to the central transmission units 310a, 310b, 310c are electrical signals S1; S2. These are created in the present case by the data exchange unit 36 by the predetermined data signal Dj is modulated with a predetermined frequency f2. In the present case, the predetermined frequency f2 corresponds to that frequency with which the signal is ultimately emitted by the mobile radio antenna 24a of the antenna node 20a and is to be transmitted to the mobile device 6a intended for reception. For this purpose, the data exchange unit 36 generates a modulated transmission signal Sj, which is transmitted to the signal connection 351a of the first central transmission unit 310a. In the present exemplary embodiment, the central transmission unit 310a corresponds to the transmission unit 10 illustrated in FIG. 1. The two remaining central transmission units 310b, 310c also correspond to the transmission unit illustrated in FIG.
    On the basis of the signal Si generated by the data exchange unit 36, the first central transmission unit 310a generates at its optical connection 322a a modulated, optical transmission signal S0, i, which is transmitted to the antenna node 20a via an optical waveguide 3a. This means that an analog-optical transmission of the signal Si takes place.
    The antenna node 20a is shown in greater detail in FIG. 9, in particular it is shown that the just mentioned optical transmission signal S0, i is transmitted via the optical waveguide 3a to the antenna node 20a. The antenna node 20a comprises a transmission unit 210a with an optical connection 222a into which the optical waveguide 3a is coupled and via which the optical, modulated signal S0, i reaches the transmission unit 210a. The transmission unit 210a essentially corresponds to the transmission unit 10 shown in FIG. 1 and provides at its signal connection 251a a signal Sf which is forwarded to an antenna amplifier 23a and radiated by a mobile radio antenna 24a. The radiated signal is received by the mobile device 6a via the antenna 61a, demodulated and further processed.
    Because the optical signal S0, i has already been modulated with a modulated electrical signal Si, that is to say that the information signal is already in modulated form at an electrical carrier frequency, an electrical current is obtained in the antenna node 20a after the optical demodulation in the electroabsorption modulator 2 modulated received signal IR (FIG. 1) or a modulated received signal Sf at the signal terminal 251a of the transmission unit 210a. Since this signal is already present in modulated form, a separate oscillator 37 need not be provided. It is much more possible to use the signal S1 previously modulated in the central node 30; in the central node 30 has been converted into an optical signal S0, i, in the antenna node 20a again into an electrical signal Sf, which is transmitted to the mobile radio antenna 24a for radiation on. There is thus no digital-to-analog converter necessary, which would be necessary in the case of digital optical transmission to the signal S! to convert to a mobile-ready signal Sf.
    It will now be explained below how a signal radiated by the mobile device 6a via its antenna 61a is received by an antenna node 20a and transmitted to the data network 34 via the central node 30. The signal arriving at the mobile radio antenna 24a is amplified in the amplifier 23a and forwarded as the transmission signal S2 ~ to the signal terminal 251a of the transmission unit 210a. The transmission unit 210a generates a signal So, 2 on the basis of the transmission signal S2 ~ at its optical connection 22a, which signal is transmitted to the central node 30 via the optical waveguide 3a. In the central node 30, the optical waveguide 3a, as already mentioned, is connected to the optical port 322a of the first central transmission unit 310a. At the signal connection 351a of the first central transmission unit 310a of the central node 30, there is a signal S2, in the present case a modulated, electrical signal S2, which is routed to the first modulation connection 360a of the data exchange unit 36. The data exchange unit 36 demodulates the signal S2 present at the first modulation terminal 360a using the second frequency f2 generated by the oscillator 37, which is applied to the frequency terminal 36f2 of the data exchange unit 36. The data signal S2 created on the basis of the demodulation of the signal S2 is held ready at the output of the data switching unit 36 and transmitted to the data network 34 as a data signal D2.
    Also for the transmission of modulated signals from mobile device 6a, 6b, 6c in the data network 34, it is not necessary that in the antenna node 20a, 20b, 20c, an oscillator 37 is located. The mobile device 6a has an oscillator 37 and transmits electromagnetic signals having a predetermined frequency to the mobile radio antenna 24a. Further, the signal thus received is amplified in the amplifier 23a and converted into an optical signal So, 2 by the mobile radio transmitting and receiving device 210a. It is not necessary in the antenna node 20a, 20b, 20c to demodulate the signal S2 ~ received by the mobile device 6a, 6b, 6c at all. Much more, the received signal is simply converted into an optical signal So, 2 and transmitted to the central node 30 for further processing.
    This method for the analog transmission of modulated mobile radio signals via optical waveguides 3 assumes that the modulation or reception bandwidth of the transmission units 210, 310 is greater than the electrical carrier frequency of the modulated mobile radio signals S1, S1, S2, S2. For the particular case that very high carrier frequencies are used beyond typical electro-optical bandwidths of electroabsorption modulators 2, as is envisaged for example in new mobile radio standards, such as 5G, the transmission of the
    Mobile radio signals in modulated form as described above now take place on an "intermediate" frequency. A subsequent frequency conversion of the signals Si, Si ~, S2, S2 ~ by frequency mixing with a predefined frequency derived from a local electrical oscillator 37, can then the received, modulated signal Si, Si ~, S2, S2 ~ to the desired high carrier frequency be transposed. Such a frequency conversion is well known and also in use for such purposes.
    A further embodiment of the invention, with which a plurality of transmission units 10a,..., 10f can be coupled together in a data exchange network 70, is shown in FIG. This comprises a multiplicity of transmission units 10a,..., 10f according to the invention, which are coupled in each case via an optical waveguide 3a,..., 3f into a central optical interface 7. In each case, an optical waveguide 3a,..., 3f is provided which in each case couples into a connection 22a,..., 22f of a transmission unit 10a,..., 10f and a connection 71a,..., 71f of the central interface 7 is.
    The central optical interface 7 may in the simplest embodiment be a passive optical coupler in NxN configuration, where N is the number of ports on the bidirectional input and output of this passive power divider. In the case of Fig. 10, N = 3. In addition, internal feedback may be provided at the coupler terminals of the central optical interface to artificially transfer signals back to the same side of the coupler. For example, it is also possible that transmission units 10a, 10b and 10c can communicate with one another.
    In the present data exchange network 70, it is possible in a simple manner for individual transmission units 10a,..., 10f shown here to be in data communication with each other by agreeing on a common optical transmission and reception frequency, wherein in particular each transmission unit 10a,... , 10f in each case a transmission and reception frequency is assigned, under which this can be addressed. If, for example, a transmission unit 10e wants to enter data communication with another transmission unit 10a, it can, for example, set the frequency of its laser 1e to a frequency which substantially corresponds to the optical frequency of the laser 1a of the transmission unit 10a and accordingly transmits data to the transmission unit 10a ,
    In order to ensure advantageous data communication in this case, provision may also be made for all the transmission and reception frequencies assigned to the individual transmission units 10a, 10f to be known to and stored in all other transmission units 10a, 10f. In response, for example, the transmission unit 10a, while maintaining its own transmission frequency, can transmit a response back to the communication-initiating transmission unit 10e.
    The remaining transmission units can also set their lasers 1b, 1c, 1d, 1f to the frequency of the first transmission unit 10a, read all the communication between the transmitting and receiving apparatuses 10a, 10e, that is to say that information is exchanged in the point-to-multipoint method can be. If appropriate, further messages can be transmitted to these two transmission units 10a, 10e.
    In addition, however, it is possible for the transmission units 10b, 10d to be in data communication with each other in parallel to the communication of the two transmission units 10a, 10e and to select a different optical transmission and reception frequency. The choice of the individual optical transmission and reception frequencies can be selected as shown in FIG. 5 in order to avoid crosstalk.
    In this case, for example, the transmission unit 10b may select a frequency for the reception of the communication with the transmission unit 10d which corresponds to the frequency assigned to the transmission unit 10d. In this case, it is possible for the transmission units 10a, 10e and the transmission units 10b, 10d to communicate with each other without interfering with the respective other transmission units 10a, 10t. Transmission frequencies can be determined electrically but also optically. While a plurality of electrical carrier frequencies can be defined on an optical frequency in accordance with the frequency multiplex, a plurality of optical frequencies can also be utilized by detuning the emission wavelength of the laser 1, which can be accomplished in lasers 1 generally via the laser current I L or the temperature. This generally already provides the possibility of accomplishing a large number of possible transmission channels. The detection of the channel to be selected can be effected by characteristic pilot tones, which are applied on the basis of a definition of the respective optical frequency known, fixed and stored for each transmission unit, for example at very low frequencies in the kilohertz range. Electrical frequency multiplexing is particularly suitable for already modulated signals, while exclusive optical frequencies offer especially for the transmission of the information signal in the baseband, that is without prior electrical modulation to an electrical carrier frequency.
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    claims:
    1. A method for receiving a modulated, in particular amplitude-modulated, preferably by modulation of light (SL) of a laser (1) created, optical received signal (S0, R), - with a transmission unit (10) comprising a laser (1) with an electrical Input (11) for controlling the laser current (lL) and the frequency of the laser (1) emitted light (SL), the laser (1) having an optical laser output (12), and an optical laser output (12) downstream of the electroabsorption modulator (2) having an electrical modulation terminal (21), - wherein the laser (1) is directed to the electroabsorption modulator (2) and the light (SL) of the laser (1) is passed through the electroabsorption modulator (2) and on an optical connection (22) of the electroabsorption modulator (2) is coupled into an optical waveguide (3), characterized in that - the received optical received signal (S0, R), with an optical Frequency within a predetermined optical frequency range over the optical waveguide (3) through the electroabsorption modulator (2) through the laser (1) is directed, - that the laser (1) by driving the electrical input (11) to a predetermined optical frequency ( fL) is preset within an optical frequency range (F), which lies in particular within +/- 1 GHz by the optical frequency (fR) of the received optical received signal (S0, R), - that due to the irradiation of the optical received signal ( S0, R) to the laser (1) the optical frequency (fL) of the light (SL) emitted by the laser (1) is adapted and / or adjusted to the optical frequency (fR) of the received optical received signal (S0, R), - That the light emitted by the laser (1) (SL) and the optical waveguide (3) received optical received signal (S0, R) are superimposed in the electroabsorption modulator (2) that the thus created overlay signal from the electroabsorption modulator (2) into an electrical received signal (lR), in particular in an electrical current signal (lR), is converted, which preferably corresponds to the current waveform (lR) at the electrical modulation terminal (21) of the electroabsorption modulator (2), and - a received signal (SR) which corresponds to or is derived from the received electrical signal (lR) and is available at a signal terminal (51), in particular as a current or voltage signal.
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    2. The method of claim 1 for the simultaneous transmission and reception of optical signals (S0, r, S0, t), characterized in that a) that a transmitted signal to be transmitted (ST) as an electrical transmission signal (UT), in particular as an electrical voltage signal to Is provided, b) that the electrical transmission signal (UT) is applied as a voltage signal during reception according to claim 1 to the modulation terminal (21) of the electroabsorption modulator (2) and in such a way by modulation of the laser (1) generated light (SL) optical transmission signal (S0, T) created in the optical waveguide (3) is coupled, c) that the current absorbed by the electroabsorption modulator (2) determined and thus a current signal (lR) is created, the default in this electrical transmission signal (UT) from the electroabsorption modulator (2) is recorded, d) that on the basis of predetermined criteria, that temporal current profile (I R, m) is modeled, which at a given Be radiation of the electroabsorption modulator (2) by the light (SL) of the laser (1) and a predetermined signal exposure to the electrical transmission signal (UT) at the electrical modulation terminal (21) of the electroabsorption modulator (2), if no optical power is transmitted through the optical waveguide (3) Receiving signal (S0, R) is received or an optical received signal (S0, R) is received, which does not contain a modulated signal, and this current waveform as a modeled current waveform (lR, m) is held available, e) that the difference (ΔΙ) is formed between the current profile (IR) measured in step c) and the current profile (IR, m) modeled in step d), and f) that this difference (ΔΙ) is assumed to be derived from the optical received signal (S0, R) and as received signal (SR) is provided.
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    3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that - the light (SL) of the laser (1) is additionally directed to a further electroabsorption modulator (2 '), - that the optical connections (22, 22j of the two electroabsorption modulators (2 , 2 ') are each connected to one of the two polarization inputs (41, 41') of a polarization beam splitter (4) and the output (42) of the polarization beam splitter (4) is coupled to the optical waveguide (3), that with both electroabsorption modulators (2 , 2 ') in each case an electrical received signal (IR, IR') is determined, wherein the electrical received signal (IR, IR ') with the higher signal strength than received signal (SR) is kept available.
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    4. Method according to claim 3 for the simultaneous transmission and reception of optical signals (S0, R, S0, t), characterized in that the electroabsorption modulator (2, 2 ') is used for sending the optical transmission signal (S0, t), in which the respective weaker electrical received signal (IR, IR ') was determined, wherein in particular the transmission signal (ST) to be transmitted, preferably in the form of an electrical voltage signal, to the modulation terminal (21, 21') of that electroabsorption modulator (2, 2 ') is applied, at which the respective weaker electrical received signal (lR, lR ') is determined.
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    5. A method for receiving and transmitting optical modulated signals (S0, r, S0, t) according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein for generating a modulated optical received signal (S0, R) light (SL) with a predetermined optical frequency (fL) is modulated with a signal to be transmitted (Sβ) and alternately received in successive time periods - signals according to claim 1, wherein the optical frequency (f L) of the laser (1) is set to the predetermined optical frequency (f R), and - subsequently in the respectively subsequent period of time light (SL) is emitted from the laser (1) onto the electroabsorption modulator (2) with the same predetermined optical frequency (fR) and a transmission signal (ST) to be transmitted, in particular in the form of an electrical voltage signal, at the electrical modulation connection (21 ) of the electroabsorption modulator (2), so that the light passing through the electroabsorption modulator (2) (SL) is attenuated in accordance with the transmission signal (ST) to be transmitted and the optical transmission signal (S0, T) thus obtained is coupled into the optical waveguide (3) and transmitted.
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    6. A method for receiving and transmitting optical modulated signals (S0, i, So, 2) according to one of the preceding claims, wherein - for the preparation of the received signal (S0, i, S0, R), a data signal (D1, D2) with a predetermined first electrical frequency is modulated so that it has frequency components within the first frequency range (Fei, i) to the predetermined electrical frequency (ίθυ) and the signal thus obtained (Sß then used to modulate light with a predetermined optical frequency and thus an optical modulated received signal (S0, i, S0, r) is obtained, - that this received signal (S0, i, S0, r) is obtained according to claim 1 using light (SL) with the predetermined optical frequency and in such an electrical received signal ( lR) having frequency components within a predetermined first electrical frequency range (FeL1), and - at the same time an electrical transmission signal (UT), the signal component le within a different from the first frequency band and with this non-overlapping, preferably spaced from this, electric frequency band (Fei, 2) is applied to the electroabsorption modulator (2) and by means of the laser (1) light (SL) with the predetermined optical Frequency is applied to the electroabsorption modulator (2), - so that the light passing through the electroabsorption modulator (2) is attenuated in accordance with the transmit signal (ST) to be transmitted, and the optical transmit signal (S0, T) thus obtained is coupled into the optical waveguide (3) and is transmitted.
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    A method for transmitting signals from a central node (30) to an antenna node (20a, 20b, 20c) provided with an antenna (24a, 24b, 24c), preferably a mobile radio antenna, remote from the central node (30) in particular a data signal (Dj) previously received via a data network (34) is provided in the central node (30) and subsequently modulated with at least one predetermined frequency (f1; f2) by an oscillator (37) and thus a modulated electrical signal ( h), wherein - by means of a central transmission unit (310a, 310b, 310c) due to the modulated electrical signal (h) an optical, modulated signal (S0, i) provided and coupled into the optical waveguide (3) and one of the antenna nodes (20a, 20b, 20c) is transmitted, - due to the thus created optical signal (S0, i) in the antenna node (20a, 20b, 20c) according to one of the preceding claims, a received signal (Sf) by means of ei ner antenna-side transmission unit (210a, 210b, 210c) and at the signal terminal (251a, 251b, 251c) of the antenna side transmission unit (210a, 210b, 210c) is provided, and - wherein the received signal (Sf), optionally amplified, preferably in the form of Current or voltage signal is transmitted to the antenna (24a, 24b, 24c) of the antenna node (20a, 20b, 20c) and is emitted from this.
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    8. The method according to claim 7, characterized in that from the antenna (24a, 24b, 24c) of the antenna node (20a, 20b, 20c) incoming modulated, electromagnetic signals, in particular mobile radio signals, received and, optionally amplified, to the signal terminal ( 251a, 251b, 251c) of the antenna-side transmission unit (210a, 210b, 210c) of the antenna node (20a, 20b, 20c), and an optical signal (S2) from the antenna-side transmission unit (210a, 210b, 210c) according to any one of the preceding claims ) and transmitted via the optical waveguide (3) to the central node (30), - that receive this optical signal (S2) in the central node (30) and in particular according to one of the preceding claims, by means of the central transmission unit (310a, 310b, 310c ), is converted into an electrical signal (l2), - that demodulates this electrical signal (l2) using a frequency (f1; f2) given by the oscillator (37) t is kept and the thus demodulated data signal (D2) in the central node (30) available and optionally transmitted via the data network (34) on.
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    9. transmission unit (10), in particular for carrying out a method according to one of the preceding claims, comprising - a laser (1) having an electrical input (11) and an optical laser output (12), - at least one of the optical laser output (12) of Laser (1) downstream electroabsorption modulator (2) with an electrical modulation terminal (21) and an optical connector (22) for optically coupling the electroabsorption modulator (2) to an optical waveguide (3), the laser (1) being mounted on the optical connector (3). 22) of the electroabsorption modulator (2) is aligned and positioned so that the light (SL) of the laser (1) emerges from the electroabsorption modulator (2) at the optical connection (22) and from the optical connection (22) to the electroabsorption modulator (FIG. 2) incident light is directed to the laser (1), wherein the electroabsorption modulator (2) is adapted to the laser (1) radiated light (SL) u nd overlaying an optical reception signal (S0, R) arriving at the optical connection (22) and providing at its electrical modulation connection (21) an electrical reception signal (IR) corresponding to a superposition signal of the light (SL) emitted by the laser (1) the optical reception signal (S0, R) corresponds to a control unit (5) connected to the electrical input (11) of the laser (1) and the electrical modulation terminal (21) of the electroabsorption modulator (2), having an electrical signal connection (51) the control unit (5) is designed to set the laser current (I L) and the frequency of the light (SL) emitted by the laser (1) to a value within an optical frequency range via the electrical input (11) of the laser (1). which is in particular in the range of +/- 1 GHz to the wavelength of the guided in the optical waveguide (3) light or the optical frequency (fR) of the received optical received signal (S0, R), u nd - to analyze the electrical received signal (lR) at the electrical modulation terminal (21) of the electroabsorption modulator (2) and thus to receive a received signal (SR) corresponding to the optical terminal (22) receiving optical signal (S0, R).
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    10. Transmission unit (10) according to claim 9 for the simultaneous transmission and reception of optical signals (S0, R, S0, T), characterized in that the control unit (5) is further adapted to - based on the at its signal terminal (51 ) to create the transmitted signal (ST) to be transmitted as an electrical transmission signal (UT) during the reception of signals to the modulation terminal (21) of the electroabsorption modulator (2), - to detect the current absorbed by the electroabsorption modulator (2) and thus a current signal (lR), to model, on the basis of given criteria, that temporal current profile which, for a given irradiation of the electroabsorption modulator (2) by the light (SL) of the laser (1) and a predetermined signal application at the electrical modulation terminal (21) of the Electroabsorption modulator (2) results when no optical received signal (S0, R) arrives over the optical waveguide o receiving an optical received signal (S0, R) containing no modulated signal and keeping this current waveform as modeled current waveform (lR, m), - the difference (ΔΙ) between the measured current waveform (IR) and the modeled current waveform (lR, m), and to provide this difference or a derivative therefrom as a received signal (SR).
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    11. Transmission unit (10) according to claim 9 or 10, characterized in that - a further electroabsorption modulator (2 ') is provided, on which the light (SL) of the laser (1) is directed, - that the optical connections (22, 22 ') of the two electroabsorption modulators (2, 2') are respectively connected to one of the two polarization inputs (41, 41 ') of a polarization beam splitter (4) and the output (42) of the polarization beam splitter (4) is coupled to the optical waveguide (3) in that - each of the two electroabsorption modulators (2, 2 ') is designed to detect an electrical received signal (IR, IR') at its electrical modulation terminal (21), and - that the control unit (5) is designed to receive that electrical received signal (lR, Ir ') with the higher signal strength than received signal (SR) at its signal terminal (51) to keep available.
    [12]
    12. Transmission unit (10) according to claim 11 for the simultaneous transmission and reception of electrical signals (S0, R, S0, t), characterized in that the control unit (5) is adapted to those of the electroabsorption modulator (2, 2 ') for the Sending the optical transmission signal (S0, T) at which it has detected the respective weaker electrical received signal (I R, I R '), wherein it transmits the transmitted signal (ST), in particular in the form of an electrical voltage signal, to the modulation port (21 21 ') of the electroabsorption modulator (2, 2') on which it has detected the respective weaker electrical received signal (IR, IR ').
    [13]
    13. central node (30) comprising - a data exchange unit (36) with at least one data port (36a) for connection to a data network (34), at least one modulation port (360a, 360b, 360c) and at least one frequency input (36fb 36f2), - one oscillator (37) connected to the frequency input (36fb 36f2), the oscillator (37) being designed to generate frequency signals (f1; f2) according to predetermined criteria and for transmitting the frequency signals (f1; f2) to the frequency input (36f1; 36f2) at least one central transmission unit (310a, 310b, 310c) according to one of claims 9 to 12, wherein the signal connection (351a, 351b, 351c) of the central transmission unit (310a, 310b, 310c) is provided with a modulation port (360a, 360b , 360c) of the data exchange unit (36) and an optical waveguide (3) is coupled into the optical port (322a, 322b, 322c) of the central transmission unit (310a, 310b, 310c), the data ver averaging unit (36) is adapted to: - a data signal (D) received via the data network (34a) according to a predetermined modulation method to at least one frequency signal (fi) transmitted by the oscillator (37) to the frequency input (36fi, 36f2) , f2) and modulated at the modulation port (360a. 360b, 360c) as a modulated transmission signal (Si) and to transmit according to predetermined criteria to the corresponding central transmission unit (310a, 310b, 310c) and - via the modulation port (360a, 360b, 360c) from the central transmission unit (310a , 310c) to demodulate a received receive signal (S2) according to a predetermined demodulation method by means of a frequency signal (f1, f2) given by the oscillator (37) and to provide it on the first electrical data port (36a) as a demodulated data signal and forward it to the data network (34).
    [14]
    14. central node (30) according to claim 13, wherein the central transmission unit (310a, 310b, 310c) is preferably adapted to - by means of a laser (1) to create light (SL) and directed to an electroabsorption modulator (2) and so a transmission signal (Si) arriving at the signal connection (351a, 351b, 351c) of the central transmission unit (310a, 310b, 310c) from the data switching unit (36) as a modulated optical transmission signal (S0, i) at the optical port (322a, 322b, 322c ), to couple into the optical waveguide (3), and in particular to an antenna node (20a, 20b, 20c) to transmit, and - a, in particular from an antenna node (20), via the optical waveguide (3) at the optical port (322a, 322b, 322c) as received signal (S2) at the signal terminal (351a, 351b, 351c) and to transmit to the data switching unit (36).
    [15]
    15. Antenna node (20a, 20b, 20c) for wireless transmission of data to a mobile device (6a, 6b, 6c) with an antenna (61a, 61b, 61c), in particular a mobile radio antenna, comprising - a mobile radio antenna (24a, 24b, 24c) wherein the mobile radio antenna (24a, 24b, 24c) is adapted to be in radio communication with the mobile radio device (6a, 6b, 6c), - at least one antenna-side transmission unit (210a, 210b, 210c) according to one of claims 9 to 12, whose signal terminal is connected to the antenna (61a, 61b, 61c), and - an optical waveguide (3) connected to the optical port (222a, 222b, 222c) of the antenna-side transmission unit (210a, 210b, 210c).
    [16]
    16 antenna node (20a, 20b, 20c) according to claim 15, wherein the antenna-side transmission unit (210a, 210b, 210c) is in particular adapted to create by means of a laser (1) light (SL) and to an electroabsorption modulator (2) and to provide a signal (S2~) arriving at its signal terminal (251a, 251b, 251c) from the amplifier (23) as a modulated optical signal (S2) at the optical port (222a, 222b, 222c) into the optical waveguide (3 ), and in particular to a central node (30) to transmit, and - a, in particular from a central node (30), via the optical waveguide (3) at the optical port (222a, 222b, 222c) incoming optical signal (Sß as a transmission signal ( Sf) at the signal terminal (251a, 251b, 251c) and to transmit via the bidirectional amplifier (23) to the mobile radio antenna (24a, 24b, 24c).
    [17]
    17. Antenna node (20a, 20b, 20c) according to claim 15 or 16, further comprising a bidirectional amplifier (23a, 23b, 23c) connected to the mobile radio antenna (24a, 24b, 24c) - connected to the signal terminal (251a, 251b, 251c ) is connected to the antenna-side transmission unit (210a, 210b, 210c), and - which is adapted to - amplify the data received from the mobile radio antenna (24a, 24b, 24c) and as an electrical received signal (S2 ~) to the signal terminal (251a , 251b, 251c) of the antenna-side transmission unit (210a, 210b, 210c), and amplify signals provided to the antenna-side transmission unit (210a, 210b, 210c) at its signal terminal (251a, 251b, 251c) and to the Mobile antenna (24a, 24b, 24c) forward for transmission.
    [18]
    18. A data transmission network (40) comprising - a central node (30) according to claim 13 or 14 and - a plurality of antenna nodes (20a, 20b, 20c) according to claim 15, 16 or 17, wherein in each case the optical port (222a, 222b, 222c ) of the antenna-side transmission unit (210a, 210b, 210c) of the antenna node (20a, 20b, 20c) and the optical port (322a, 322b, 322c) of the central transmission units (310a, 310b, 310c) of the central node (30) via one each Optical waveguide (3a, 3b, 3c) are connected, and wherein preferably at least one with the mobile radio antennas (24a, 24b, 24c) in radio communication, mobile device (6a, 6b, 6c).
    [19]
    A data exchange network (70) for data transmission, comprising - a central interface (7) with ports (71a, 71b, 71c) and - a plurality of transmission units (10a, 10b, 10c) according to any one of claims 9 to 12, wherein the respective one of claims optical connection (22a, ..., 22f) of the individual transmission units (10a, ..., 10f) each with a connection (71a, ..., 71f) of the interface (7) by means of an optical waveguide (3a, ... , 3f), - wherein the interface (7) is adapted to distribute at her over one of the optical fibers einlangende optical signals (So) and forward to the other transmission units (10a, ..., 10f), - wherein each transmission unit (10a, 10b, 10c) is assigned at least one transmission and reception frequency and wherein in the respective control unit (5) each of the transmission units (10a, ..., 10f) respectively the transmitting and receiving frequencies associated transmission units (10a, ..., 10f) are stored d, and - wherein the control units (5) of the transmission units (10a, ..., 10f) are designed, in the case of data transmission, their laser (1) by controlling the respective electrical input (11) to an optical frequency (fL) to be set, which is in an optical frequency range (F), in particular of +/- 1 GHz, around the optical frequency of the transmission unit (10a, ..., 10f) selected for reception.
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