Increasing demand for high data transmission rates and bandwidth availability driven by the rapid development of the broadband services becomes challenging in the context of constraints imposed by nowadays exploited telecommunication optical fibers. Based on single-mode fibers and multiplexing in the wavelength domain (wavelength division multiplexing, WDM), the current technology seems to have reached its fundamental limits. At present, two promising technologies are a subject of intensive research. One of them is the increase of the data transmission through multiplying the number of fiber cores, thus implementing the concept of Multi-Core Fibers (MCF), where each core is used as a separate data transmission channel. The second widely investigated technique is based on the idea of mode division multiplexing (MDM), where different transverse modes of a Few-Mode Fiber (FMF) can be used as different carriers for data channels.
In this work, we demonstrate the results of R&D works and the comprehensive tests of the few-mode fibers developed within the project NMKM+. Developed few-mode fibers (both passive and active) and their commercially available counterparts have been tested with respect of transmission parameters and applicability to the real telecom systems. In particular, guided mode profiles, numerical apertures, OTDR, and dispersion characteristics for the passive fibers have been recorded and compared. Also, methods of selective excitation and detection of singular modes have been discussed and partially verified. The results of data transmission experiments have been performed and discussed with respect to the quality of transmitted signals. These have been complemented by the amplification experiments with the use of erbium-doped few-mode fibers in “classical” and microstructural geometry. The results were studied and analyzed, showing the potential for future optimization.
Acknowledgement: This work has received support from the National Centre for Research and Development through project NMKM+ (TECHMATSTRATEG1/348438/16/NCBR/2018).
We investigate the utilization of semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) and quantum-dot laser-based Raman amplifiers in high-capacity dense wavelength division multiplexed (DWDM) 1310-nm transmission systems. Performed simulations showed that in a 10×40 Gbit/s system, the utilization of a single Raman amplifier in a back-propagation scheme can extend the maximum error-free (bit error rate <10−9) transmission distance by approximately 25 km in comparison with the same system utilizing only an SOA used as a preamplifier. We successfully applied a Raman amplifier in an 8×2×40 Gbit/s 1310-nm polarization multiplexed (PolMux) DWDM transmission over 25 km. Conducted experiments showed that the utilization of a Raman amplifier in this system leads to 4-dB improvement of the average channel sensitivity in comparison to the same system utilizing SOAs. This sensitivity improvement can be translated into a higher power budget. Moreover, lower input optical power in a system utilizing a Raman amplifier reduces the four-wave mixing interactions. The obtained results prove that Raman amplification can be successfully applied in 1310-nm high-capacity transmission systems, e.g., to extend the reach of 400G and 1T Ethernet systems.
In the following work, the optimization of a high bit rate single wavelength channel PolMux transmission system working in the 1310 nm wavelength domain, is presented. Demonstrated method utilizes the interplay between the chirp effect in an electroabsorption modulator and the chromatic dispersion in an optical fibre. By means of the numerical simulations it is shown, that the value of the modulator chirp parameter α can significantly change the maximum allowable value of the accumulated dispersion from +60 ps/nm for α = 0 to +100 ps/nm for α = -0.7. Conducted experiments show that change of a data channel wavelength from 1321.2 nm to 1311.5 nm can significantly decrease the transmission related power penalty in 2×40 Gbit/s experiment with 38 km SSMF as well as 2×50 Gbit/s and 2×56 Gbit/s experiments with 25 km SSMF. Presented method can be utilized to increase the transmission distance of low complexity and high bit rate optical transmission systems like Ethernet.
This paper has been withdrawn. The following nearly identical paper is available in this conference proceedings: Jarosław Piotr Turkiewicz and Paweł Czyżak, "The high gain 1310nm Raman amplifier," Proc. SPIE 9228, Optical Fibers and Their Applications 2014, 92280P (May 12, 2014); doi:10.1117/12.2067055.
Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) are key components in the short and medium range 1310 nm wavelength domain optical transmission systems utilized in e.g. high speed Ethernet. In this paper, by means of simulation we investigate the influence of an SOA on the transmission quality in the 1310 nm wavelength domain high capacity 10×40 Gbit/s wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) system. It occurs, that the maximal channel spacing for such system is 400 GHz for which the differences in gain of the channels do not exceed 1.5 dB, and the sensitivity differences resulting from the SOA bandwidth are below 1 dB.
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