CSO/CTB performances improvement in a bi-directional DWDM CATV system

Author

Lu, Hai-Han ; Wang, Wen-Jen ; Tsai, Wen-Shing

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electro-Opt. Eng., Nat. Taipei Univ. of Technol., Taiwan

Volume

50

Issue

4

fYear

2004

Firstpage

377

Lastpage

381

Abstract

We proposed and demonstrated a four-wavelength bi-directional dense-wavelength-division-multiplexing (DWDM) CATV system that uses chirped fiber gratings (CFGs) as the dispersion compensation devices to reduce the fiber dispersion and cross-phase modulation (XPM)-induced crosstalk simultaneously. Our proposed system not only reduces the required number of fibers, but also offers the advantages of capacity doubling. Excellent performances of carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR) ≥ 50 dB, composite second order (CSO) ≥ 72 dB and composite triple beat (CTB) ≥ 69 dB were obtained over a 50-km single-mode fiber (SMF) transport.

Keywords

cable television; channel capacity; channel spacing; optical crosstalk; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; phase modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; CATV system; CFG; CSO; CTB; DWDM; SMF; XPM; bidirectional dense-wavelength-division-multiplexing; cable TV; chirped fiber grating; composite second order; composite triple beat; cross-phase modulation induced crosstalk; fiber dispersion compensation device; single-mode fiber transport; Bidirectional control; Channel spacing; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical crosstalk; Optical distortion; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Optical modulation; Optical transmitters; Wavelength division multiplexing; 65; Chirped fiber grating; cross-phase modulation; dense-wavelength-division-multiplexing; fiber dispersion;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Broadcasting, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9316

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TBC.2004.837880

Filename

1364094