Design and Performance of WDM Transmission Systems at 6.3 Mbits/s

Author

Kanada, Tetsuya ; Okano, Yukifusa ; Aoyama, Koh-ichi ; Kitami, Tokuhiro

Author_Institution

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corp., Yokosuka, Japan

Volume

31

Issue

9

fYear

1983

fDate

9/1/1983 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1095

Lastpage

1102

Abstract

One- and two-way 6.3 Mbit/s optical transmission systems employing wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) are designed for application to telephone networks. Multiplexing at two wavelengths, 1200 and 1300 nm, as well as that at 810 and 890 nm, is found to be effective after taking the application fields and present fabrication techniques for optical multiplexers into account. Requirements for optical multiplexers are clarified through SNR design in which crosstalk is dealt with effectively. Optical multiplexers composed of newly developed dielectric multilayer thin-film filters are designed to meet the systems´ requirements, and good transmission quality is confirmed for the systems by experiments.

Keywords

Crosstalk; Optical fiber communication; Wavelength-division multiplexing; Dielectrics; Nonhomogeneous media; Optical crosstalk; Optical design; Optical device fabrication; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Telephony; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCOM.1983.1095932

Filename

1095932