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This paper reviews optical fiber design evolution for transmission systems over the past three decades, including both multimode and single-modes fibers. Key fiber attributes related to fiber transmission systems and how fiber designs have evolved to improve these attributes to enable higher and higher transmission data rate are discussed. Major fi...
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... evolution of single-mode fiber has been driven mostly by the dispersion requirements as shown in Fig. 7. Of course, other parameters are also important to single-mode fibers such mode field diameter, effective area, cutoff wavelength, fiber attenua- tion, bending losses, etc. An ideal fiber design must optimize every fiber performance parameter. However, in reality, such an ideal design does not exist. A practical design is the one that ...
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... shown in Fig. 7, the lowest transmission loss for single-mode fibers is at the 1550-nm window with a loss of around 0.2 dB/km. Compared to the attenuation value of about 0.35 dB/m at 1310 nm, the transmission distance will be in- creased by 75% using the 1550 nm wavelength. However, the chromatic dispersion of ITU-T G.652 compliant single-mode fiber ...
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... Therefore, the concept of non-zero dispersion-shifted fiber (NZDSF) was proposed [72]- [77]. The profile designs for NZDSFs are typically based on the profiles of Fig. 9(c)-(e). In a NZDSF design, the profile parameters are selected such that the zero dispersion wave- length is moved to a wavelength outside the EDFAs gain band as shown in Fig. 7. Typical dispersion value for NZDSFs is in the range of 3-8 ps/nm/km at 1550 ...
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... wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) applications. With the improve- ments in reducing the OH content during the fiber manufac- turing process, low water peak fibers now are available. In low- water peak fibers, the water peak is nearly completely elimi- nated. As a result, the attenuation at 1383 nm is reduced to less than 0.35 dB/km (see Fig. 7), making the full spectrum from 1270 to 1630 nm available for ...
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... polarization state, could be used to carry information, thus the spectral efficiency (SE) can be significantly improved [1][2][3]. ...
Six polarization-shift keying quadrature phase shift keying (6PolSK-QPSK) signal modulation format is formed by different representations of QPSK. A variety of satisfactory single-carrier transmission schemes have been implemented in 24-Point 6PolSK-QPSK. As an extension of 24-Point 6PolSK-QPSK, it has been confirmed that 32-Point 6PolSK-QPSK has higher spectral efficiency (SE). Based on the method of extracting 24-Point 6PolSK-QPSK feature parameters, a 32-Point 6PolSK-QPSK signal transmission scheme is proposed and verified in 100 km single-mode fiber (SMF) with an aggregate transmission rate of 108-Gbps. Simulation results show that the original data could be recovered effectively with the proposed scheme, and the system bit error ratio (BER) could meet the requirement of the forward error correction (FEC) threshold of 3.8e − 3.
... To fulfill the rapid growth of bandwidth requirements in different fiber optic communication system applications, wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) systems, and fiber-to-the home (FTTH) networks have been introduced to employ newly designed optical fibers for better performance and reliabilities of high bit rate optical networks 1 and long haul transmission optical systems. [2][3][4][5][6] To increase the channel bit rate in a long haul transmission, the fiber nonlinearity effects should be avoided recommended by. [7][8][9][10] Recent years, new fiber designs and further work have been introduced in high-capacity WDM transmission systems so as to minimize the nonlinearity effects and reduce down the signal distortion. ...
The determination of design parameters of large effective area fiber with segmented-core profile is presented by using simple variational method to obtain the effective area, mode field diameter, and dispersion of the fiber. The designed fiber has a large effective area of 171.1 2 mμ with mode field diameter, dispersion, and normalized cut off frequency of 9.7 m,μ 2.85 ps/nm.km, 2.491, respectively. The results have shown that the fiber with a bending radius of 35 mm, has a very low bending loss of 0.0053 dB/km. The calculated of parameters values of designed non-zero dispersion-shifted fiber (NZDSF) have shown that with a segmented-core profile of radius 3.5 m,μ with a ring width of 0.2 m,μ the core effective area increases from 152.3 2mμ to 189 2m,μ which in practical point of view, is an achievement to reduce the nonlinearity effects in the NZDSF as transmission medium.
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