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Understanding Fiber-Optic Dispersion Management

Dispersion broadens pulses and limits bitrate in fiber-optic communication systems. Higher bitrates use smaller pulses that are more greatly impacted by dispersion over long distances. Dispersion can be managed by compensating for the added dispersion during fiber propagation, either electronically at the receiver or using dispersion compensating fibers. Modern systems use digital signal processing techniques like digital backpropagation to perform electronic compensation.

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Understanding Fiber-Optic Dispersion Management

Dispersion broadens pulses and limits bitrate in fiber-optic communication systems. Higher bitrates use smaller pulses that are more greatly impacted by dispersion over long distances. Dispersion can be managed by compensating for the added dispersion during fiber propagation, either electronically at the receiver or using dispersion compensating fibers. Modern systems use digital signal processing techniques like digital backpropagation to perform electronic compensation.

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Dispersion problems (8.

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• Dispersion broadens pulse, so limits bitrate
• Higher the bitrate, smaller the pulse, more the dispersion 
• Direct modulation at higher speeds increases chirp, and broadens
spectrum

• At 1.55 um, D=16 ps/nm/km, results in L<30 km for 10 gbps


• Dispersion limited!
• Cant use D=0! Why? Remind yourself
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Dispersion management
• Idea is to compensate for the dispersion added during the
propagation

• Either do it electronically at the receiver ( now the norm)


• Or use dispersion compensating fibers (obsolete),

• 1- SMF, 2-DCF…..if D2 is -200 ps/nm/km, 4 km of DCF is enough for 50


km SMF
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Dispersion Maps
• 3 ways to compensate the dispersion

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Other ways to compensate the dispersion
• Fiber Bragg Gratings

• Dispersion equalising
filters

• Phase conjugation

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Electronic compensation
• The fiber transfer function is written as

• If receiver detects amplitude and phase, it is possible to correct the


GVD by passing through a filter
• At receiver, conversion to intermediate frequency IF and application
of filter
• Pre-chirp at transmitter:
• More common: Digital Signal processing
• Digital backpropagation
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Modern day compensation
• Various techniques have been implemented historically to
compensate for nonlinearity and dispersion
• Almost all of the compensation nowadays in using Digital signal
processing!
• It is still nice to understand the basics of impairment compensation
• Nonlinearity compensation is tricky: Machine learning being used for
compensation, digital backpropagation…
• (most probably the next version of the book will replace chapter 8
and 9 with a DSP chapter )
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