Limitations in 10 Gb/s WDM optical-fiber transmission when using a variety of fiber types to manage dispersion and nonlinearities

Author

Zou, X.Y. ; Hayee, M. Imran ; Hwang, S.-M. ; Willner, Alan E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

14

Issue

6

fYear

1996

fDate

6/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1144

Lastpage

1152

Abstract

We analyze the system limitations of WDM transmission when using various types of optical fiber to manage dispersion and nonlinearities. In our model, from two to eight 10 Gb/s WDM channels are transmitted through a cascade of EDFA´s experiencing dispersion, stimulated Raman scattering, and self- and cross-phase modulation. The fiber types modeled include: conventional single-mode fiber, dispersion shifted fiber, and dispersion-compensating fiber. These fibers have different dispersion spectral profiles and are combined to manage dispersion to produce a total zero dispersion for a certain fiber span while eliminating four-wave mixing. We find that a system using dispersion-shifted fiber and conventional single-mode fiber exhibits the best performance, with the combination of dispersion and cross-phase modulation as the dominant effects. Furthermore, conventional single-mode fiber combined with dispersion-compensating fiber system exhibits the worst performance, with the combination of dispersion and self-phase modulation as the dominant effects

Keywords

optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre theory; optical modulation; phase modulation; stimulated Raman scattering; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; EDFA cascade; Gb/s WDM optical-fiber transmission; WDM channel; WDM transmission; cross-phase modulation; dispersion shifted fiber; dispersion spectral profiles; dispersion-compensating fiber; dominant effects; fiber dispersion; fiber nonlinearities; fiber span; four-wave mixing; manage dispersion; optical fiber; self-phase modulation; single-mode fiber; stimulated Raman scattering; system limitations; total zero dispersion; Fiber nonlinear optics; Four-wave mixing; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical mixing; Optical scattering; Raman scattering; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.511616

Filename

511616