Dispersion and dispersion slope tolerance of 160-Gb/s systems, considering the temperature dependence of chromatic dispersion

Author

Vorbeck, Sascha ; Leppla, Ralph

Volume

15

Issue

10

fYear

2003

Firstpage

1470

Lastpage

1472

Abstract

With increasing data rate the signal degradation due to dispersion is getting worse and dispersion slope has to be taken into account. In this letter, we investigate theoretically and numerically the impact of dispersion and dispersion slope on transmission performance including the effect of temperature variations of the fiber and thus the resulting variation of fiber dispersion. The simulations carried out, show tight dispersion and dispersion slope tolerances for 160-Gb/s systems. A controlled adaptive dispersion compensation is mandatory for high speed optical transmission systems.

Keywords

adaptive optics; compensation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; 160 Gbit/s; 160-Gb/s systems; chromatic dispersion; controlled adaptive dispersion compensation; dispersion slope tolerance; fiber temperature variations; high speed optical transmission systems; nonlinearities; signal degradation; simulations; temperature dependence; transmission performance; Adaptive control; Adaptive optics; Adaptive systems; Chromatic dispersion; Control systems; Degradation; High speed optical techniques; Optical control; Programmable control; Temperature dependence;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2003.818218

Filename

1232994