The invention relates to the
optical communication technology, in particular to a method for extracting local oscillating light in a Super-channel CO-OFDM
system. The local oscillating light is extracted in the Super-channel CO-OFDM
system with the method that optical
injection locking is combined with an optical phase-locked loop, the complexity of an optical
receiver to be used for compensating for
frequency offset and phases can be effectively lowered, and the
power consumption, the cost and the like of the
receiver can be further reduced. According to the method, as
photon carriers extracted after
processing such as optical
injection locking and
phase locking is carried out serve as the local oscillating light, the local oscillating light can be kept the same as the
signal photon carriers in frequency and phase, the complexity of a
digital signal processing algorithm in the coherent optical
receiver can be greatly lowered, the
power consumption of the
digital signal processing algorithm in the coherent optical receiver can be greatly reduced, and the performance advantages, including the receiver sensitivity, the
spectral efficiency and the robustness to polarization dispersion, of the CO-OFDM can be better developed. In addition, by means of the method, the CO-OFDM
system can have the high operation efficiency, and reduction, caused by the
frequency deviation between a local
laser apparatus and a transmitting-end
laser apparatus, of the coherent receiving efficiency can be effectively reduced.