Minimization of Cross-Gain Saturation in Wavelength Division Multiplexing by Optimizing Differential Gain in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

We successfully simulated the 10 × 40 Gbit/s soliton RZ-DPSK WDM signals over 1050 km with spectral efficiency approaching 0.4 bit/s/Hz using semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) as in-line amplifier. The cross-gain saturation of SOA can be minimized by settling crosstalk at a lower level by decreasing the differential gain. This decrease in differential gain is in such a way that we get nil power penalty. The maximum transmission distance of 1050 km is possible with differential gain 210 atto cm² of SOA.

The impact of amplification factor, ASE noise power, crosstalk, quality factor and bit error rate for different differential gain has been investigated. It has been shown that with the increase in differential gain of SOA, the transmission distance goes on decreasing. At high value of differential gain 2.5 × 10^-16 cm² for the transmission distance 1050 km, all channels produce inter channel crosstalk with bit error rate greater than 10^-6. But for lower differential gain 190 atto cm², the quality of all channel increases at the cost of large power penalty.

With slight increase in differential gain 200 atto cm², the maximum transmission distance observed is 4550 km with quality of received signal more than 15 dB and having nil power penalty. We observed clear eye diagrams and optical power spectra for received signal with transmission distance 1050 km and 4550 km using soliton RZ-DPSK system. The bit error rate for all channels increase more than 10^-10 with the increase in launched input power that is due to power saturation.     

Equalization-enhanced phase noise induced timing jitter

In electronic digital signal processing based optical communication systems, digital equalization for chromatic dispersion interacts with local oscillator phase noise to produce equalization-enhanced phase noise (EEPN). In addition to both phase and intensity noises, EEPN also induces timing jitter to the equalized signal. For a 100?Gbit/s quadrature-phase-shift keying signal with laser linewidth of 300?kHz, the timing jitter is up to 20% of the symbol interval for a transmission distance of 1500?km.     

A detailed analysis of cross-phase modulation effects on OOK and dpsk optical WDM transmission systems in the presence of GVD,SPM, and ASE noise

A performance analysis is carried out to evaluate the effect of cross-phase modulation (XPM) on a dispersion-managed 20 Gb/s optical wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) transmission system using either the on-off keying (OOK) or the different-phase-shifting keying (DPSK) modulation, in the presence of the group-velocity dispersion (GVD), self-phase modulation (SPM), and amplified spontaneous emission (ASE). It is found that to achieve a bit error rate (BER) of 10⁻⁹ at a distance of 160 km, a 1.0 dB XPM power penalty is incurred for input channel power of 3 dBm in the OOK transmission and 7 dBm in the DPSK transmission. The power penalty increases with input channel powers and is inversely proportional and exhibits oscillations with respect to the channel separation. The oscillation is evenly spaced for the DPSK but not for the OOK and suggests the presence of optimum separation values. The XPM penalty decreases when a high dispersion fiber is used and increases linearly with increasing dispersion slope. Small residual dispersion can reduce the penalty of nonlinear effects.     

Multichannel dispersion compensation using a silicon waveguide-based optical phase conjugator

We experimentally demonstrate dispersion compensation using a silicon-based optical phase conjugator. We achieve simultaneous transmission of four dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) channels spaced at 100 GHz and operating at 10 Gbits/s over 320 km of standard fiber. The measured power penalty at bit error rate of 10(-9) is less than 0.3 dB.     

Dual-ring 16-Star QAM direct and coherent detection in 100 Gb/s optically amplified fiber transmission: simulation

This paper presents the transmission performances, by simulation, of optical communication systems over 10 spans of dispersion compensated and optically amplified fiber distance with a bit rate of 100 Gb/s, by employing modulation formats of two amplitude levels and 8 phase states per amplitude level, the 2R-16-Star QAM constellation under direct and coherent detection with and without phase estimation. Different ring ratios of the amplitude levels are examined and associate transmission performances are reported. Optical signal to noise ratio is achieved with 18 dB and 23 dB for back to back and long haul transmission cases with a dispersion tolerance of  ±67 ps/nm at 2 dB power penalty of the eye opening at 100 Gb/s. Monte–Carlo simulation is also performed and a receiver sensitivity of  − 15 dBm is achieved for a BER of 10⁻⁵under direct detection after 1100 km of dispersion-compensated and optically amplified transmission. Transmission performances, bit error rate versus receiver sensitivity, are also confirmed with the use of the eye diagram and associate multiple-peaks statistical spectral density distribution. For 100 Gb/s 2R-16-Star QAM coherent transmission, an improvement of the receiver sensitivity of 2.5 dB and 3.5 dB is obtained for coherent detection without phase estimation and respectively. Under coherent detection with phase estimation, the chromatic dispersion tolerance reaches  ±100 ps/nm for a 2 dB eye opening penalty at 100 Gb/s bit rate. Comparative studies of the transmission performances of the Star and Square QAM modulation formats are also conducted under the fiber linear and nonlinear effects and detection with and without phase estimation.     

一个新型的毫米波无线信号光纤传输系统及本振信号远程传送结构

摘要提出一个新型的毫米波光纤传输系统及本振信号远程传送的结构.此技术能为将来使用皮蜂窝网络提供宽带无线接入服务给出一个简单的基站接入点解决方案.计算和仿真结果表明,在激光器输出功率为－6.5 dBm,光放大增益为6 dB,激光线宽为1 MHz,75 MHz或150 MHz,误码率不超过10－9的情形下,622 Mbit/s的下行相移键控信号能够在传统单模光纤上传输超过30 km的距离.在具有相对大的激光器线宽150 MHz和光纤距离为30 km时,由激光器相位噪音和光纤色散所引起的（通过远程传送的）毫米波本振信号的额外相位误差的方差仅为1.74°.     

Study on the 4×10 Gb/s,400 km dispersion compensation by chirped optical fiber grating

In this paper, the dispersion compensation for 4×10 Gb/s, 400 km G.652 fiber by chirped optical fiberBragg grating (FBG)is introduced.For the first time,we have measured and compensated the polarizationmode dispersion(PMD)of FBG, which in each channel is less than 1.1 ps.When the bit crror rate(BER)is 10~(-10)and the bit error is zero, the transmission power penalty of each channel is less than 2 dB, andthe best, result is negative which means that the receiver sensitivity is increased after transmission.     

Add/drop applications in fiber ring networks based on a reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer in a re-circulating loop

A periodic add/drop system in a fiber ring network was investigated using a reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) in a re-circulating fiber loop. After seven cascaded add/drop nodes at every 150 km along the transmission, at bit error ratio (BER) equals to 10⁻⁹ and data rate of 10 Gbps, we observed a 2.5 dB power penalty for the passing through channels with 1050 km transmission distance, and 0.3 dB sensitivity penalty variation for the periodic add/drop channels at every 150 km, respectively.     

Impact of Laser Linewidth on Performance of Externally Modulated Optical Transmission Systems

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Experiment on 60-GHz MMW transmission performance in an optical fiber and wireless system

We experimentally investigate the transmission performance of 60-GHz signals over standard single-mode fiber (SSMF) and wireless links at different bit rates. Experimental results show that in a transmission of over 10-km SSMF and 1.3-m wireless link, bit rate reaches up to 5 Gb/s and bit error rate (BER) is less than 10 4 . The main limiting factor in such radio-over-fiber (ROF) systems is intersymbol interferences caused by the so-called walk-off effect when BER is below 10 8 . In addition, a transmission of over 20-km SSMF without chromatic dispersion compensation is briefly investigated. For a BER of 10 8 , the optical penalty is 2 dB.     

Experimental study on narrow spectral width FP lasers with a wavelength detuned band-pass filter

In this paper, a 1310 nm InAlGaAs/InP multiple quantum well ridge waveguide FP laser with a built-in wavelength detuned band-pass filter has been fabricated and investigated in experiments. When compared to the reference FP laser fabricated in the same wafer, it is observed that the root-mean-square spectral width can be approximately reduced to half; and moreover, significant improvements on the transmission performances in terms of the power penalty at given transmission distance and the longest transmission distance at given bit error rate, have been achieved for the proposed laser at the same fabrication cost.     

Analysis of the impact of laser line width over RIN, power penalty and bit rate including higher-order dispersion in WDM systems

This paper investigated the effect of laser line width over relative intensity noise (RIN), power penalty and bit rate at optical distances in the range of 100-10,000 km both analytically and graphically. It is also proposed and analyzed that by reducing the laser line width to the range of KHz, we can minimize the impact of RIN and power penalty under the individual and combined impact of higher-order dispersion parameters.     

Simulation of DWDM signals using optimum span scheme with cascaded optimized semiconductor optical amplifiers

We numerically simulated the ten channels at 10 Gb/s dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) transmission faithfully over 17,227 km using 70 km span of single mode fiber (SMF) and dispersion compensating fiber (DCF) using optimum span scheme at channel spacing 20 GHz. For this purpose, inline optimized semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) and DPSK format are used. We optimized the SOA parameters for inline amplifier with minimum crosstalk and amplified spontaneous emission noise with sufficient gain at bias current 400 mA. For this bias current, constant gain 36.5 dB is obtained up to saturation power 21.35 mW. We have also optimized the optical phase modulator bandwidth for 400 mA current which is around 5.5 GHz with crosstalk −14.2 dB between two channels at spacing 20 GHz.We show the 10×10 Gb/s transmission over 70 km distance with inline amplifier has good signal power received as compared to without amplifier, even at equal quality factor. We further investigated the optimum span scheme for 5670 km transmission distance for 10×10 Gb/s with channel spacing 20 at 5.5 GHz optical phase modulator bandwidth. As we increase the transmission distance up to 17,227 km, there is increase in power penalty with reasonable quality.The impact of optical power received and Q factor at 5670 and 17,227 km transmission distance for different span schemes for all channels has been illustrated. For launched optical power less than saturation, all channels are obtained at bit error rate floor of 10⁻¹⁰.     

Gain Flattening Approach to Physical EDFA for 16 × 40 Gb/s NRZ-DPSK WDM Optical Communication Systems

We are using different approaches to gain flattening in EDFAs without using additional components; i.e., gain flattening filter, dispersion shift fiber, periodic gratings, etc. By using gain flatten approach 3, it is possible to achieve the transmission of sixteen channels at 40 Gb/s wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) over a transmission distance of 490 km by single-mode fiber and dispersion-compensating fiber at a span of 70 km with channel spacing of 200 GHz. We observed the bit error rate less than 10^-9 and power of received signal more than -5 dBm with NRZ-DPSK format.     

Phase encoded spread in time signals for suppression of propagation non-linearities in 40 Gb/s CDM/WDM communications systems using optical phase conjugation for dispersion compensation

The non-linear degradation along a RZ-WDM 40 Gb/s transmission link is shown to be reduced when a spectral direct sequence bipolar phase shift keying (DS/BPSK) encoding format is used. Standard single mode fibre transmission links are studied which use optical phase conjugation for dispersion compensation in the encoded system. For a WDM system with 100 GHz channel spacing, an improvement of 6 dB is found in the link output power margin at a distance of 300 km after five amplification stages.     

Laser bias effect on the receiver sensitivity of passive fibre optic star bus networks

We examine in this paper the reduction in receiver sensitivity in passive fibre optic star bus networks due to the laser bias power transmitted by every terminal. Both transimpedance and high impedance preamplifier configurations using PIN and avalanche photodiodes are considered. The penalty in receiver sensitivity is examined as a function of bit rate, number of terminals, amplifier noise and the ratio of the launched laser bias power to average launched signal power. For PIN receivers the penalty has a maximum at low bit rates and falls off rapidly on either side of the maximum. In an example quoted in the paper the PIN receiver sensitivity penalty for networks with less than 50 terminals is less than 1 dB for all bit rates. The penalty for APD receivers increases with bit rate, and, in a further example, is shown to be less than 1 dB for networks with less than 50 terminals operating at bit rates lower than approximately 20 Mbit s^?1. Techniques for reducing the penalty to negligible levels are also examined.     

光双二进制传输系统的性能研究

光双二进制信号的谱宽是传统二进制信号的一半,采用双二进制传输比二进制传输色散限制的中继距离可增加一倍.本文对采用传统光接收机的光双二进制传输系统用MATLAB进行了通信仿真.结果表明:在完全消光条件下,10 Gb/s双二进制信号在常规单模光纤上传输可达160 km,40 Gb/s双二进制信号在非零色散光纤上为30 km,均比二进制增加了一倍;详细考察了消光比对传输的影响,只有消光比大于25 dB时,双二进制相对于二进制传输的优越性才呈现出来.     

沙尘信道下激光通信系统的性能分析

沙尘对激光信号的散射和吸收作用会引起激光信号的严重衰减,本文结合我国沙尘粒子的半径分布特征,在考虑含水影响的基础上,研究了沙尘对激光信号衰减特性的影响,得到了接收端信噪比的表达式;同时针对OOK调制,推导了沙尘天气下激光通信系统的误码率和信道容量。仿真分析了能见度、传输距离、含水量以及激光波长等因素对误码率和信道容量的影响。结果表明:随着含水量和传输距离的增大以及大气能见度的减小,系统的误码率会呈现出不断增大的趋势,而信道容量则呈现减小的趋势。在能见度为4 km的情况下,波长为1 550 nm、传输距离为1 km时系统的误码率可达10~(-2)数量级,且归一化信道容量为8.48 bps/Hz。     

Use of fibre gratings for bit skew compensation in all optical bit parallel WDM systems

We demonstrate transmission of two wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) bit parallel channels over 100 km of standard single mode fibre link using direct-modulated laser diodes at 10 Gbit/s channel. Step-chirped fibre gratings are used to simultaneously compensate to bit skew and dispersion. Bit skew of approximately 2.5 ns due to the fibre dispersion is completely compensated. Our work show shows that the step-chirped fibre grating technique can eliminate the bit skew for bit parallel WDM systems operating at Gbit rate over hundreds of kilometres of fibre link.     

Performance evaluation of path-averaged soliton pulses in loss-managed 10-Gbps soliton transmission link over a long haul

In this paper, the performance evaluation of path-averaged soliton transmission link for various performance measures viz. OSNR, optical power, extinction ratio, bit error rate (BER) and Q factor at different levels of noise figure and values of pulse width (FWHM) has been carried out. The performance of soliton transmission link is studied, taking into account soliton interaction, amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise and noise figure. The model presented considers interaction in a random sequence of solitons and the effect of the ASE noise added in each amplification stage. The influence of ASE noise, noise figure and pulse width with different amplifier spacing on the BER and quality factor has been investigated. It has been shown that these play dominant roles in degrading the performance measures. We have demonstrated the capability of path-averaged (guiding-centre) soliton for a long-haul distance of 17,000 km at a bit rate of 10 Gbps without ASE effect and noise figure in each amplifier span length of 500 km. The average value of quality factor is found to be 16.6 dB and the average BER is of the order of 10⁻¹² over the transmission distance of 17,000 km. Further, it has been investigated that a severe system penalty results on the inclusion of ASE effect and noise figure in order to achieve the same level of performance. Thus, the investigations ascertain that in order to maintain the same level of BER and Q factor, the amplifier spacing and total transmission distance reduce considerably.