Optical communications

Chapter 5.2
Pham Quang Thai
Pqthai.hcmut@gmail.com

Optical modulator
Analog link noise factor
Digital link dispersion limit
Digital link attenuation limit
Multiple wavelengths link

Digital link: digital signal is

modulated with optical signal
Application: data transmission in optical
networks

Issues in digital link

Attenuation: cause?
Dispersion: cause?

Rise time budget

Dispersion -> spreading pulse -> rise time
limit?

Rise-time budget

Dispersion contributors

Dispersion contributors
Transmitter rise time: usually given

Dispersion contributors
Group velocity dispersion rise time of
fiber:
tGDV D L

D : dispersion [ns/(km.nm)]
L : fiber length [km]

: half - power spectral width of the source [nm]

Dispersion contributors: modal

dispersion rise time

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Dispersion contributors
Receiver rise time:
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t rx
Brx
Brx : 3 - dB electrical bandwidth of receiver [MHz]

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The total rise time should be shorter

than the allowed rise time
Allowed rise time of some common
line code:
For NRZ format, Tr=0.70/B
For RZ format, Tr=0.35/B
B: bit rate [b/s]

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Example for chapter 5.2

Laser Tx has a rise-time of 25 ps at
1550 nm and spectral width of 0.1
nm. Length of fiber is 60 km with
dispersion 2 ps/(nm.km). The InGaAs
APD has a 2.5 GHz BW.
Find the total rise-time budget?
Can 20Mb/s NRZ signal be used?

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Example for chapter 5.2

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Bragg reflection

Sir William Lawrence Bragg

Sir William Henry Bragg

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Dispersion compensation
Fiber Bragg grating

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Dispersion compensation
Linearly chirped fiber grating

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Dispersion compensation
Linearly chirped fiber grating

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Dispersion compensation
Fabricate fiber Bragg grating (video)

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