A comprehensive study of optimization algorithm for wireless coverage in indoor area

Coverage optimization using minimum number of transmitters is critical to service providers and vendors that need to control the coverage as well as the huge costs involved. In this regards, an existing coverage algorithm for determining the minimum number of transmitting antennas as well as their appropriate locations to provide the optimized wireless coverage for indoor environment is studied in this paper. The algorithm uses ray-tracing to predict the signal distribution from the transmitter to the sampling points (receivers) and genetic algorithm to determine the minimum number of transmitters and their corresponding locations to achieve the optimum wireless coverage. The complexity and performance of the algorithm are also analyzed and it is found that it has exponentially increasing complexity of $2^{n}$ and the change of computation time is greater with small change of the number of receiving points. Moreover, under the multi-transmitter scenario (real case), the accuracy achieved by fading, coverage ability, and signal to noise ratio is in the range of 96–99 %.     

Supercontinuum generation using a passive mode-locked stretched-pulse bismuth-based erbium-doped fiber laser

A Supercontinuum (SC) generation in photonic crystal fiber (PCF) is demonstrated using an amplified picosecond stretched-pulses from a passive mode-locked Bismuth-based Erbium-doped fiber laser (Bi-EDFL). The Bi-EDFL employs of a piece of a highly nonlinear 49 cm long Bismuth-based Erbium-doped fiber (Bi-EDF), an optical isolator and a polarization controller in a cavity to generate a mode-locked stretched-pulse via a nonlinear polarization rotation technique. It operates at 1560 nm with a repetition rate of 42 MHz and a pulse width of 131 fs. The SC lights, which extends from 1250 nm to 1910 nm as well as in the visible green wavelength region are obtained with a 100 m long PCF and the amplified pump power of 30 dBm.     

Simultaneous dual-wavelength lasing of an erbium-doped fibre laser over wide spectrum range by intracavity loss optimisation

This letter reports a new technique to achieve a wide range of simultaneous dual output lasing of an erbium-doped fibre laser. The range covers a wide spectrum of 30 nm. This range is achieved by optimising the intracavity loss of the fibre loop in the laser. The wavelength is tuned via a tuneable bandpass filter. These dual lasing outputs are kept within a 0.5 dB power difference.     

FWM-based multi-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser using Bi-EDF

We experimentally demonstrate a simple structure but efficient multi-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) using a 49 cm Bismuth-based erbium-doped fiber (Bi-EDF) as gain medium. The Bi-EDF provides erbium amplification and FWM effect in the cavity to generate a stable multi-wavelength comb operating in C-band region. We have achieved more than 5 lines with peak power of more than −35 dBm and channel spacing of 0.5 nm by incorporating a broadband fiber Bragg grating and polarization controller in the ring cavity.     

Self-starting harmonic mode-locked Tm-Bi co-doped germanate fiber laser with carbon nanotube-based saturable absorber

We report a ring cavity passively harmonic mode-locked fiber laser using a newly developed thuliumbismuth co-doped fiber(TBF) as a gain medium in conjunction with a carbon nanotube(CNT)-based saturable absorber.The TBF laser generates a third harmonic mode-locked soliton pulse train with a high repetition rate of 50 MHz and a pulse duration of 1.86 ps.The laser operates at 1 901.6 nm with an average power of 6.6 mW,corresponding to a pulse energy of 0.132 nJ,at a 1 552 nm pump power of 723.3 mW.     

Synthesis of optical PMD compensating filter using FIR lattice structure

We investigate the potential of n-stage optical finite impulse response (FIR) lattice filter for compensating first order polarization mode dispersion (PMD). This compensation is based on minimizing the differential group delay (DGD) between the two principal state of polarization (PSP) within a given frequency range. The filter is realized by concatenating optical delay lines, directional couplers, and phase shifters in a lattice architecture. A numerical simulation is performed for an 8th and 12th order filters to demonstrate the impact of using higher order filters. The results show that DGD can be reduced significantly as we increase the order of the filter.