Effect of seasonal temperature fluctuations on performance of 160 Gbps transmission with adjustable chromatic dispersion compensation

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Bourdoucen, Hadj

Affiliations: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, P.O. Box 33, Al-Khodh, Muscat, 123, Oman. Tel./Fax: +968 24141 325; E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract: In this paper, effect of seasonal temperature fluctuations on performance of chromatic dispersion compensated 160 Gbps optical fiber networks is investigated. Compensation of temperature dispersion effects on single mode fiber (SMF) is obtained by adjusting the length of the dispersion compensation fiber (DCF) as compensation and compensation slope factors of SMF fiber vary with temperature. Based on temperature dependence models and measurements, simulation studies have been carried out and the obtained results show expected quantitative compensation requirements for seasonal thermal effects. The range of temperatures considered corresponds to seasonal ones for Muscat area with changes from −10°C to 60°C. This has been done for typical optical fiber spans of SMF and DCF fibers for 160 Gbps rates. In addition to this, the results that the NRZ coding format is more tolerant to temperature changes than the RZ format.

Keywords: Optical fiber transmission, seasonal temperature fluctuation, chromatic dispersion compensation, high bit rate transmission

DOI: 10.3233/JHS-2008-0329

Journal: Journal of High Speed Networks, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 51-57, 2008