A new equalization method for dispersion effects in optical links

Author

Berceli, Tibor ; Udvary, Eszter ; Hilt, Attila

Author_Institution

Dept. of Broadband Infocommun. Syst., Budapest Univ. of Technol. & Econ., Budapest

Volume

4

fYear

2008

fDate

22-26 June 2008

Firstpage

98

Lastpage

101

Abstract

Eliminating dispersion fast and early on is a critical concern when building next generation optical networks. Dispersion penalty has been investigated widely in 1550 nm fiber-optical links transmitting different kind of signals. However, only few papers were addressed to the harmonics generation effect. This paper presents theoretical and experimental results on estimation of harmonics in the transmission. An approach to overcome the radio frequency carrier suppression effect in optical links based on the joint effect of SOA chirp, chromatic dispersion and nonlinearities in optical fiber has been studied. The frequency notches caused by the dispersion induced carrier suppression effect may be sharply alleviated and the transmitted digital signal performance can be improved. The saturated SOA also affects the level and nature of harmonics.

Keywords

optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical links; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA chirp; chromatic dispersion; dispersion effects; equalization method; fiber optical links; harmonics generation; next generation optical networks; optical fiber; radio frequency carrier suppression; Chirp; Chromatic dispersion; Next generation networking; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Optical harmonic generation; Radio frequency; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; dispersion media; distortion; intensity modulation; optical fiber; semiconductor optical amplifier;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2008. ICTON 2008. 10th Anniversary International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2625-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2626-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2008.4598743

Filename

4598743