% This script is used to evaluate Fig. 1b) in the paper "Adaptive Removal of Multipath Interference in Short Reach 112 GBd PAM-4 IM/DD Systems" %% Parameters df = 1e6; % Laser linewidth [Hz] SIR_dB = 20; % Interference attenuation [dB] alpha = 10^(-SIR_dB/20); % Interference attenuation [linear] n_fiber = 1.467; % Refractive index c = physconst('lightspeed'); % [m/s] L = linspace(0,250,50); % Interference delay [m] tau = n_fiber./c.*L; % Interference time (= tau) [s] tau_c = 1/(pi*df); % laser coherence time [s] L_c = (c/n_fiber)*tau_c; % laser coherence length [m] var_sat = 2*alpha^2; % Analytical saturation of variance %% Monte–Carlo Simulation fs = 100e9; % sampling rate [Hz] Tsim = 50e-6; % sim duration [s] N = round(Tsim*fs); % number of samples for each realization max_delay_samples = round(max(tau)*fs); % largest delay that is evaluated (based on max. Interference delay) phase_noise_std = sqrt(2*pi*df/fs); % standard dev. phase noise num_realizations = 50; % number of parallel runs monte_carlo_variance = zeros(num_realizations, length(L)); parfor r = 1:num_realizations % generate a realization of phase noise random walk dphi = phase_noise_std * randn(1, N + max_delay_samples); % matlab randn process has std = 1 phi = cumsum(dphi); phi_direct = phi(max_delay_samples+1 : max_delay_samples+N); var_k = zeros(1, length(L)); for t = 1:length(tau) nd = round( tau(t)*fs ); % delay in samples for current interference time phi_delayed = phi(max_delay_samples+1-nd : max_delay_samples+N-nd); %cut out interfering signal part (was earlier) E = exp(1j*phi_direct) + alpha*exp(1j*phi_delayed); % E-fields combined I = abs(E).^2; % photo current as magnitude square of E-field var_k(t) = var(I); end monte_carlo_variance(r, :) = var_k; end avg_of_mc_variances = mean(monte_carlo_variance, 1); std_of_mc_variances = std(monte_carlo_variance, 0, 1); %% Analytic variance L_ = linspace(0,250,500); % Interference delay [m] tau_ = n_fiber./c.*L_; analytic_variance = 2*alpha^2 * (1 - exp(-2*pi*df.*tau_)).^2; %% Plot cols = [0.3467 0.5360 0.6907 0.9153 0.2816 0.2878 0.4416 0.7490 0.4322]; coherence_length_multiples = 0.5:0.5:ceil(L(end)/L_c); figure(); hold on; plot(L, avg_of_mc_variances, 'LineWidth',2, 'DisplayName','Simulation','Color',cols(1,:),'LineStyle','-'); errorbar(L, avg_of_mc_variances,std_of_mc_variances, 'LineWidth',0.7,'LineStyle','none', 'DisplayName','Simulation','Color',cols(1,:),'HandleVisibility','off'); plot(L_, analytic_variance, 'LineWidth',2, 'DisplayName','Analytic','Color',cols(2,:),'LineStyle','-'); xticks(coherence_length_multiples.*L_c); xticklabels(round(coherence_length_multiples.*L_c,1)); norm_to_coherence_len = 1; if norm_to_coherence_len xticklabels(coherence_length_multiples); xlabel('$n \cdot L_c$', 'FontSize',12); else xlabel('Interference Delay [m]', 'FontSize',12); end xline(L_c.*coherence_length_multiples, 'LineWidth',1.5, 'DisplayName','Coh. Length','HandleVisibility','off','Color',[0.7,0.7,0.7],'LineStyle','-'); xlim([0,L(end)]); yline(var_sat, '-.k','LineWidth',1.5, 'DisplayName','Saturation: 2$\alpha ^2$'); grid on; ylabel('Intensity Variance', 'FontSize',12); title(sprintf('MPI Variance; %d MHz; SIR: %d dB',df.*1e-6,SIR_dB), 'FontSize',14); legend('Location','southeast');