Evaluation of Combined Chromatic Dispersion Compensation Methods in Fiber Optical Transmission Systems
Developments in Optics and Communications (DOC 2011): Book of Abstracts 2011
Sandis Spolītis, Vjačeslavs Bobrovs, Ģirts Ivanovs

In this work we present combined chromatic dispersion compensation methods for fiber optical transmission systems. Chromatic dispersion (CD) compensation is very important premise to significantly improve performance of fiber optical transmission systems (FOTS) and increase maximum data rate and transmission distance.Dispersion compensation methods like dispersion compensating fiber (DCF), fiber Bragg grating (FBG) and optical phase conjugator (OPC) were used together. The performance of realized FOTS without CD compensation was very poor, but it has been shown that using combined compensation methods (FBG-DCF, FBG-OPC, and OPC-DCF) system's performance can be improved greatly. The best results were obtained by using combined FBG-OPC dispersion compensation method which showed the best BER value.


Keywords
Chromatic dispersion, Combined Dispersion Compensation, DCF, FBG, OPC, WDM

Spolītis, S., Bobrovs, V., Ivanovs, Ģ. Evaluation of Combined Chromatic Dispersion Compensation Methods in Fiber Optical Transmission Systems. In: Developments in Optics and Communications (DOC 2011): Book of Abstracts, Latvia, Rīga, 28-30 April, 2011. Riga: University of Latvia, 2011, pp.44-45. ISBN 9789984492855.

Publication language
English (en)
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