Impact of fibre nonlinearities in optical DWDM transmission systems at different data rates

The impact of major fibre nonlinearities, like stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) and four wave mixing (FWM), in cascaded amplifier dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) transmission system, has been studied at different data rates. SRS has been calculated considering pulse walk off effect. Analysis has been carried out to evaluate signal to noise ratio (SNR) considering the combined effect of SRS and FWM in the presence of amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise to achieve minimum noise at different data rates.     

Performance evaluation of 100 and 200-Gb/s WDM PM-QPSK transmission systems: tolerance analysis to the optical link impairments according to the optical carrier shape

Polarization-multiplexing quadrature phase shift keying (PM-QPSK) has become a key ingredient in the design of 100 and 200-Gb/s dense wavelength-division multiplexed (DWDM) networks. The performance of the system using these formats varies according to the shape of the pulses employed by the optical carrier: non-return to zero (NRZ), return to zero (RZ) or carrier-suppressed return to zero (CSRZ). In this paper, we analyse the tolerance of PM-QPSK to linear and nonlinear optical impairments, including amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise, crosstalk, distortion by optical filtering, chromatic dispersion (CD), polarization mode dispersion (PMD) and fibre Kerr nonlinearities. The simulation results show that RZ formats with a low-duty cycle have a higher tolerance to CD, PMD and intrachannel nonlinearities due to the reduction of pulse-to-pulse interaction. Conversely, the PM–NRZ-QPSK format has a higher spectral efficiency (SE) than other options and shows better tolerance to filtering distortion and CD in filterless networks.     

Analysis of Pulse Tolerance to Pump Depletion Induced Noise in DWDM Systems Using Distributed Fiber Raman Amplifiers

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光纤传输系统中互相位调制和受激拉曼散射串扰噪声的比较研究Ⅱ--级联传输系统

在具有级联光放大器的密集波分复用强度调制一直接检测光纤系统中，导出了包含互相位调制和受激拉曼散射共同作用的强度／相位矩阵表达式。在计算强度噪声谱的基础上，研究了互相位调制和受激拉曼散射的相互耦合并用于密集波分复用系统的噪声分析。在带色散补偿的密集波分复用级联光纤传输系统中(如80信道，信道间距50GHz)，受激拉曼散射引入的串扰噪声功率可能超过互相位调制。最后，给出了密集波分复用系统分析与设计的若干建议。     

Compensating spectral loss variations in EDFA amplifiers for different modulation formats

In this paper, we investigate the performance of the optical system consisting of chain of EDFA amplifiers for different data formats such as non-return-to-zero (NRZ), return to zero (RZ) and Manchester. Their effect on the spectral loss variations produced in fiber output is analyzed. We show that when the RZ raised cosine and Manchester raised cosine modulation formats are used, the non-linear ties are produced in power spectrum plots which severely distort the signals obtained at the output of the chain of the EDFA amplifiers. On the other hand, the NRZ raised cosine modulation format best compensates the spectral loss variations in the power spectrum plots obtained at the output. We further show that NRZ raised cosine has good eye opening as compared to other modulation formats.     

Simulation of high capacity 40 Gb/s long haul DWDM system using different modulation formats and dispersion compensation schemes in the presence of Kerr's effect

In this paper, simulative analysis of 40 Gb/s long haul (500-2000 km) DWDM system with ultra high capacity upto 1.28 Tb/s has been carried out for carrier-suppressed return-to-zero (CSRZ), duobinary return-to-zero (DRZ) and modified duobinary return-to-zero (MDRZ) modulation formats. The DWDM system has been analyzed for the pre, post and symmetrical dispersion compensation schemes for 16 Channels with 25 GHz channel spacing in order to find the optimum modulation format for a high bit rate optical transmission system. The effect of variation in input power and transmission distances is observed in terms of Q value and eye opening for various formats. It is found that symmetrical compensation is superior to pre and post dispersion compensation schemes. It has also been observed that the performance of DWDM system is severely limited by the four-wave mixing (FWM) effect and is determined that MDRZ format seems to be the best choice for the transmission distance beyond 1550 km despite slightly more complex transmitter and receiver configuration. Further, symmetrical compensation scheme has been investigated for 32×40 Gb/s MDRZ format for faithful transmission over 1450 km.     

Performance of Dispersion-Compensated Optical Transmission Systems Based on Different Electrical Drivers

In this article, the simulation results have been presented for dispersive optical communication with different electrical drivers. The length of single-mode fiber has been put in a run that is compensated by dispersion-compensated fiber. The results have been presented and it is observed that of all the electrical drivers, the NRZ rectangular is best suited for dispersive optical communication systems. For this electrical driver, the parameters like BER remain constant and low. For other drivers, the BER decreases more for RZ super-Gaussian. Similarly, the Q factor increases with runs for all types of drivers except for NRZ rectangular, for which it decreases. For all the drivers, it is clear that as the runs are varied, the eye opening penalty increases, that is, there is less eye opening as the length of single-mode fiber is increased. It is also seen that the dispersion-compensated fiber compensates for the dispersion very effectively irrespective of the type of driver. Of the two formats, return to zero (RZ) and non-return to zero (NRZ), the earlier has more eye-opening penalty as the distortion is more and is clearly visible in all the rectangular, super-Gaussian, and raised cosine RZ formats. Of the three RZ formats, it is observed that RZ rectangular has the least eye-opening penalty. The non-return to zero format has less distortion and, of the two rectangular and raised cosine, the NRZ rectangular has less eye-opening penalty.     

Performance of Dispersion-Compensated Optical Transmission Systems Based on Different Electrical Drivers

In this article, the simulation results have been presented for dispersive optical communication with different electrical drivers. The length of single-mode fiber has been put in a run that is compensated by dispersion-compensated fiber. The results have been presented and it is observed that of all the electrical drivers, the NRZ rectangular is best suited for dispersive optical communication systems. For this electrical driver, the parameters like BER remain constant and low. For other drivers, the BER decreases more for RZ super-Gaussian. Similarly, the Q factor increases with runs for all types of drivers except for NRZ rectangular, for which it decreases. For all the drivers, it is clear that as the runs are varied, the eye opening penalty increases, that is, there is less eye opening as the length of single-mode fiber is increased. It is also seen that the dispersion-compensated fiber compensates for the dispersion very effectively irrespective of the type of driver. Of the two formats, return to zero (RZ) and non-return to zero (NRZ), the earlier has more eye-opening penalty as the distortion is more and is clearly visible in all the rectangular, super-Gaussian, and raised cosine RZ formats. Of the three RZ formats, it is observed that RZ rectangular has the least eye-opening penalty. The non-return to zero format has less distortion and, of the two rectangular and raised cosine, the NRZ rectangular has less eye-opening penalty.     

Design and performance analysis of various one dimensional codes using different data formats for OCDMA system

In this paper, the design, implementation and performance analysis of various one dimensional codes in an OCDMA system for different data formats is presented. A number of different codes are used with optical CDMA to improve its error performance. Here, three such codes, optical orthogonal codes (OOC), Walsh Hadamard codes and zero cross-correlation (ZCC) codes have been compared using different data formats, NRZ raised cosine, NRZ rectangular, RZ raised cosine and RZ rectangular. It is found that NRZ raised cosine has the best system performance for all the codes used. After that, the three codes have been compared in terms of the BER, eye diagrams and received optical power using NRZ raised cosine modulation format. It is analyzed that ZCC codes have zero cross-correlation property. The simulation results revealed that ZCC codes can provide a better BER compared to the OOC and Walsh Hadamard codes and it is most suitable to be employed in the OCDMA systems.     

Analysis and Compensation of Polarization Mode Dispersion in Single Channel,WDM and 32-channel DWDM Fiber Optic System

One of the most serious impairments which limit the data rate in long distance and high speed transmission systems is Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD). PMD is negligible when data rate is low (i.e. in Mb/s or few Gb/s) but it will affect the high data rate transmission systems (10^s of Gb/s, Tb/s etc.), as the pulse broadening severely distorts the signal during transmission. Thus it is necessary to compensate the PMD in both single and multichannel fiber optic transmission system due to increase in the traffic demand. This paper deals with a Deterministic Differential Group Delay (DDGD) method to compensate the PMD in single channel, by delaying the fast polarization component and wavelength independent Polarization Maintaining Fiber (PMF) method for multichannel PMD compensation. The DDGD method efficiently compensates the PMD upto 45 ps in single channel 40 Gb/s transmission systems. The State of Polarization (SOP) before and after the PMD and after compensation is analyzed by means of Poincare Sphere. By using PM Fiber method, simultaneous and effective compensation of PMD in multichannel system is achieved. Here, the simulation has been carried out for 4-channel (40 Gb/s), 8-channel (80 Gb/s), 16-channel (160 Gb/s) WDM systems and 32-channel (320 Gb/s) DWDM fiber optic system with each channel having the data rate of 10 Gb/s and the results of PMD compensation for all the channels are analyzed. It is seen that the PMD compensation is achieved upto 90 ps 87 ps, 84 ps and 80 ps in 4-channel, 8-channel, 16-channel WDM systems and 32-channel DWDM systems respectively. As very high data rate of 100 Gb/s and above are in practice now-a-days, compensation of PMD is enhanced to 1.6 Tb/s (16 × 100 Gb/s) data rate for 16-channel by PMF method and 74 ps of broadening is compensated effectively.     

Performance investigation of suppression of four wave mixing using optical phase conjugation with different modulation format in DWDM soliton communication system

The performance of dense wavelength division multiplexed (DWDM) soliton transmission system for returnto-zero (RZ) and non-return-to-zero (NRZ) modulation formats have been investigated. The main aim of this paper is to estimate and mitigate the four wave mixing (FWM) power by using in-line optical phase conjugator (OPC). The effect of FWM has been estimated using real fiber link having nonlinear and attenuation losses. The FWM power is strongly suppressed by introducing destructive interference between the first and second halves of in-line OPC. It has been indicated that RZ with OPC yields the better performance with FWM power suppression (more than 20 dBm in certain cases) with reasonable bit error rate and Q-factor.     

Overview of DWDM/ODC Project

This article introduces the main achievements resulting from the DWDM/ODC project. The five areas of research activity within the DWDM/ODC project cover some of the main issues of design and development of dense wavelength division multiplexing systems for transparent optical networks. These issues are: performance assessment with arbitrary optical filtering; performance of signaling formats; dispersion compensation strategies for directly and externally modulated systems in presence of nonlinear transmission-induced degradation; and the impact of noise and crosstalk in the extent of transparent optical networks. All five areas of research activity have contributed significantly to a better understanding of the limitations present in dense wavelength division multiplexing systems.     

Analysis of bottlenecks in DWDM fiber optic communication system

This paper deals with the limiting factors like Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS), Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS) and Four Wave Mixing (FWM) in DWDM Fiber Optic Communication. The variation of SBS threshold power level for the spectral width of the source is analyzed and it is found that addition of spectral width in the source lowers the SBS effect. By reducing the SBS effect, we could transmit more optical power in a single channel and maintain high OSNR. Similarly the effect of phase mismatching (dispersion) and wavelength spacing on both FWM and SRS are analyzed. This work aims at finding the optimal value of spectral width, dispersion and channel spacing, thereby exploring the possibilities of increasing the overall capacity of the fiber optic trunk line.     

密集波分复用系统中光纤喇曼放大器的分析方法

本文利用耦合波理论分析了密集波分复用系统中具有一定光谱宽度的光信号之间的SRS相互作用规律,给出了宽光谱光抽运的光纤喇曼放大器的分析方法.     

Overview of DWDM/ODC Project

Abstract

This article introduces the main achievements resulting from the DWDM/ODC project. The five areas of research activity within the DWDM/ODC project cover some of the main issues of design and development of dense wavelength division multiplexing systems for transparent optical networks. These issues are: performance assessment with arbitrary optical filtering; performance of signaling formats; dispersion compensation strategies for directly and externally modulated systems in presence of nonlinear transmission-induced degradation; and the impact of noise and crosstalk in the extent of transparent optical networks. All five areas of research activity have contributed significantly to a better understanding of the limitations present in dense wavelength division multiplexing systems.     

Influence of pseudorandom bit format on the direct modulation performance of semiconductor lasers

This paper investigates the direct gigabit modulation characteristics of semiconductor lasers using the return to zero (RZ) and non-return to zero (NRZ) formats. The modulation characteristics include the frequency chirp, eye diagram, and turn-on jitter (TOJ). The differences in the relative contributions of the intrinsic noise of the laser and the pseudorandom bit-pattern effect to the modulation characteristics are presented. We introduce an approximate estimation to the transient properties that control the digital modulation performance, namely, the modulation bit rate and the minimum (setting) bit rate required to yield a modulated laser signal free from the bit pattern effect. The results showed that the frequency chirp increases with the increase of the modulation current under both RZ and NRZ formats, and decreases remarkably with the increase of the bias current. The chirp is higher under the RZ modulation format than under the NRZ format. When the modulation bit rate is higher than the setting bit rate of the relaxation oscillation, the laser exhibits enhanced TOJ and the eye diagram is partially closed. TOJ decreases with the increase of the bias and/or modulation current for both formats of modulation.     

Performance evaluation of 64 × 10 Gbps and 96 × 10 Gbps DWDM system with hybrid optical amplifier for different modulation formats

In this paper, we investigated the performance of multi terabits DWDM system consisting of hybrid optical amplifier RAMAN-EDFA for different data format such as non-return to zero (NRZ), return to zero (RZ) and differential phase shift keying (DPSK). We find that in 64 × 10 and 96 × 10 Gbps, RZ is more adversely affected by nonlinearities, where as NRZ and DPSK is more affected by dispersion. We further show that RZ provide good quality factor (13.88 dB and 15.93 dB for 64 and 96 channels), less eye closure (2.609 dB and 3.191 dB for 64 and 96 channels) and acceptable bit error rate (3.89 × 10⁸ and 1.24 × 10⁹ for 64 and 96 channels) at the respective distance as compare to other existing modulation format. We further investigated the maximum single span distance covered by using existing data formats.     

Suppression of first order stimulated Raman scattering in erbium-doped fiber laser based LIDAR transmitters through induced bending loss

A model is presented for suppression of first-order stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) in pulsed Er-doped fiber amplifiers with wavelength-selective induced bending loss. The model estimates the effectiveness of SRS suppression through fiber coiling in a pulsed amplifier, considering both the single- and dual-clad fiber cases. The basic approach is to fit analytical expressions to the evolution of a quasi-CW signal in the amplifier. Then, assuming that SRS does not deplete the signal, exact analytical expressions for the propagation of the Stokes wave are determined, from which the SRS threshold is estimated. Finally, example calculations are presented, and the model is used to determine a fiber geometry for the suppression of SRS through fiber coiling.     

Investigation on the influence of intensity scintillation and beam wander in space optical uplink DWDM communication system

Abstract

Dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) has been widely applied in ground optical communication. However, the technology of DWDM is still not mature enough in the space optical communication system. In order to further advance the use of DWDM into space optical communication, the probability density function (PDF) and the bit-error rate (BER) performance of DWDM is investigated in uplink communications under the influence of atmospheric turbulence, consisting of intensity scintillation and beam wander caused by atmospheric turbulence. Numerical results show that the atmospheric turbulence has a great impact on BER and PDF, and wavelength, divergence angel, and other relevant parameters should be carefully considered in this DWDM system. This work can be conducive for improving DWDM design of space optical uplink communication systems.     

抽运光谱宽度对喇曼光纤放大器的影响

采用受激喇曼散射（SRS）耦合波理论分析了抽运光谱宽度对喇曼光纤放大器的影响, 指出当采用宽光谱作抽运光时会降低抽运效率. 同时, 文中还给出了抽运光谱宽度、抽运光功率和抽运效率间的变化规律曲线, 得出当传输光纤的有效截面积越小、喇曼增益系数越大、抽运光的入纤功率和光谱线宽度越大时, 光谱抽运效率越小的结论.