Long Hould
Long Hould
Long Hould
Abstract:- Telecommunication traffic (voice, data etc.) is increasing day by day. So to meet the capacity demand, in this paper we have designed
and verified a high capacity optical fiber communication system through simulation. We simulated a 40 Gbps single optical fib er link for
telecommunication traffic transmission which could be possible to implement in developing countries with few modifications in their existing optical
fiber transmission link. We used Rsoft-OptSim commercial software to simulate it. Designed single optical fiber link length was 1000 km and the
bit error rate found was 4.29e-10. Next, we used 8 channels WDM system in this link to get higher data transmission capacity which was 320
Gbps and the center channel i.e. 1550 nm, bit error rate found was 2.7362e-12.
Index Terms:- BER, Capacity, EDFA , Eye Diagram, Gbps, Optical Fiber, WDM.
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Fig. 1. 40 Gbps 1000 km single optical fiber link (Rsoft-OptSim). Solid lines are the OF link components and dashed lines indicates the
measuring equipments.
Fig. 2. Dispersion compensation using Dispersion Compensated Fig. 3. Total dispersion for the whole 1000 km optical fiber link.
Fiber (DCF).
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TABLE 1
CHANNELS & THEIR CORRESPONDING BER AFTER 1000 KM
Channel Channels
BER
Numbers (Wavelengths) nm
01 1542 9.8221e-011
02 1544 1.1414e-011
03 1546 1.1089e-011
04 1548 3.6534e-012
05 1550 2.7362e-012
06 1552 4.2042e-012
07 1554 3.8943e-011
08 1556 6.2473e-010
From the Table 1 we can see that the BER obtained from each Fig. 10. For 1542 nm channel- received signal (upper one) & eye
channel after 1000 km were error free. So the designed WDM diagram (lower one).
system is capable for error free transmission over 1000 km
through the optical fiber link. For individual WDM system From the Fig. 9 (lower one) we can see that after the
channel output analysis, let us consider the 1st channel- 1542 transmission, at the DEMUX only 1542 nm channel exists and
nm. all others are dropped out. This was done by the internal filter
inside the DEMUX which is designed only for the specific
channel wavelength, here for 1542 nm. And from Fig. 10
(lower one) we can see the eye diagram for this channel. The
eye is open and the two decision levels are distinguishable
and the corresponding BER for this 1542 nm channel was
9.8221e-011. The BER also implies the error free transmission
through the optical fiber link over 1000 km.
4 CONCLUSION
From the design & simulation it is found that fiber dispersion
as well as non-linearity effect of fiber affects the high bit rate
(eg. 40 Gbps) transmission through OF. So an optimized
design is done in this paper to compensate the fiber
dispersion. The gain of EDFA also does a master role in the
transmission. The gain of the EDFA should be well defined for
error free transmission. Because if we choose too much gain
then there will be non-linearity effect and if we choose less
gain then the signal will be degraded. If the signal power is
increased then there will also the non-linearity effect. That is
why an optimization is required for the EDFA gain. So for this
system design we checked the gain several times and found
the optimized gain for EDFA as 15.8 dB & 16 dB for single link
and WDM system respectively. The power budget has not
mentioned here for any link, by observing these simulation
result it is possible to make the power budget accordingly.
Most of the developing countries existing telecommunication
Fig. 9. For 1542 nm channel- spectrum after source (upper one) & network has the single optical fiber link for voice and data
spectrum after DEMUX (lower one). transmission. With a few modifications of the elements
parameter in the link as mentioned here we can upgrade the
single link up to 40 Gbps. And after that just applying the WDM
system we can upgrade the transmission capacity up to 320
Gbps.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Author acknowledges the support by Photonics Department,
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. Work at the laboratory was
supported by Brussels Photonics Team (B-PHOT). The author
would like to thank Prof. H. Thienpont and Dr. J. Van Erps for
their help.
REFERENCES
[1] Gerd Keiser, Optical Communications Essentials,
McGraw-Hill, 2004.
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