Optical bit parallel WDM system using a dispersion managed fibre

Summary form only given. One of the most important problems in data processing systems is the communication amongst computers and/or processors. The authors discuss the use of a bit parallel wavelength division multiplex (BP-WDM) scheme. In this system, each bit is launched in the same fibre using a different wavelength avoiding the need for serial-parallel-serial converters. As each bit is represented by a different wavelength, each bit suffers a different delay due to the dispersion characteristics of the fibre and bit skew is a system performance limitation. Dispersion compensating schemes may be used to solve the bit skew problem. This may be done by using fibre gratings or simply substituting the fibre grating/standard fibre combination with a dispersion managed fibre (DMF). In this work we propose a long distance, 16x10 Gb/s per channel BP-WDM system using a dispersion managed fibre. The influence of the low dispersion slope, self-phase modulation (SPM) and cross-phase modulation O(PM) are also analysed