Performance Analysis of a Gain Clamped 16 Ã\x97 40 Gb/S WDM Optical Communication System

Author

Bansal, Savina ; Singh, Surinder ; Gupta, Sandeep

fYear

2008

fDate

4-6 Jan. 2008

Firstpage

396

Lastpage

400

Abstract

In this paper a gain clamping approach is used to flatten the gain of erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA), so that it could be used for long haul wave length division multiplexing (WDM) communication system to maximize the transmission distance. The gain clamping is done through filters like Multi-stage Lorentzian filter, Super Gaussian filter, Bessel filter, and Raised cosine filter with bandwidth of 500 GHz at center frequency 193.41 THz. It has been inferred from the simulation results that first order notch type super Gaussian filter is most appropriate for the transmission of 16 times 40 Gb/s WDM optical DPSK data with channel spacing 200 GHz, over 518 km. The quality factor obtained for all the channels is above 15 dB.

Keywords

Gaussian processes; differential phase shift keying; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; wavelength division multiplexing; Bessel filter; Raised cosine filter; WDM optical communication system; channel spacing; erbium doped fiber amplifier; frequency 200 GHz; gain clamping approach; long haul wave length division multiplexing; multistage Lorentzian filter; performance analysis; quality factor; super Gaussian filter; Clamps; Doped fiber amplifiers; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber filters; Optical filters; Performance analysis; Performance gain; Wavelength division multiplexing; EDFA; Gain clamping; Super Gaussian notch filter; WDM;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing, Communications and Networking, 2008. ICSCN '08. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chennai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1924-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1924-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSCN.2008.4447226

Filename

4447226