Peformance of RZ- versus NRZ-transmission on standard single-mode fibers

Author

Ennser, K. ; Petermann, K.

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Hochfrequenztech., Tech. Univ. Berlin, Germany

Volume

8

Issue

3

fYear

1996

fDate

3/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

443

Lastpage

445

Abstract

The huge amount of standard single-mode fibers installed in terrestrial systems makes the analysis of return-to-zero (RZ) modulation format an interesting proposal. On the basis of computer simulations, we investigate the RZ-transmission for the optimum system performance taking into account the dispersion, Kerr nonlinearity, attenuation and ASE noise. Parameters as bit rate, distance and power levels are estimated for the lowest system degradation. The work considers different duty ratios including NRZ-pulses.

Keywords

optical Kerr effect; optical fibre communication; optical fibre theory; optical modulation; optical noise; superradiance; ASE noise; Kerr nonlinearity; NRZ-transmission; RZ-transmission; bit rate; computer simulations; dispersion; duty ratios; optimum system performance; power levels; return-to-zero modulation format; standard single-mode fibers; terrestrial systems; Dispersion; Filters; Noise figure; Performance analysis; Propagation losses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Senior members; Solitons; Space vector pulse width modulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.481144

Filename

481144