Effect of all-optical phase regeneration on fiber transmission capacity

Author

Hesketh, G. ; Horak, P.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK

fYear

2013

fDate

23-27 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We investigate theoretically the benefits of using all-optical phase regeneration in a long-haul fiber optic link. We simulate numerically the bit-error rate of a WDM optical communication system over many fiber spans with periodic re-amplification and compare the results obtained with and without the use of a phase regenerator at half the transmission distance. Our results suggest that, depending on the modulation format, a significantly improved performance by up to 1.5 orders of magnitude can be achieved.

Keywords

error statistics; optical links; optical modulation; optical repeaters; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM; all-optical phase regeneration; bit error rate; fiber transmission capacity; long haul fiber optic link; numerical simulation; optical communication system; optical modulation; periodic reamplification; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Phase noise; Phase shift keying; Repeaters; All-optical signal processing; Fiber capacity; Optical communication; Phase regeneration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2013 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cartagena

ISSN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2013.6603025

Filename

6603025