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Multiplexing
•Multiplexing is a process of putting all the
signals into a common channel in different
ways and the component is called
multiplexer
•De-multiplexing is a process which separates
out all the multiplexer signals and the
component is called de-multiplexer
•This is required to increase system overall
capacity
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TDM - Time Division Multiplexing
•Combines traffic from multiple inputs
onto one common high capacity output
•Requires electrical mux/demux function
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DWDM Technology
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What is Wave Division
Multiplexing ?
•Data from each TDM channel is loaded
on one optical frequency (or wavelength,
) of a particular wavelength band
•These wavelengths are then multiplexed
onto one fiber with the help of WDM
multiplexers
•Other side of the network these
wavelengths are demultiplexed by using
either optical filters, gratings or WDM
demultiplexers
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Increased Network Capacity
Independence Of Bit Rates And Formats
DWDM = Dense WDM
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DWDM
•Can achieve high system capacity by
multiplexing more WDM channels, each
with relatively low data rate
•Consist of a WDM combined with an optical
amplifier, to allow multiple wavelengths on
a single fiber and also avoid individual
regeneration equipment for each
wavelength by use of line amplifiers
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Why WDM?
•Better utilization of fiber
•Overcome ‘fiber exhaust’, lack of fiber availability
•Low unit cost of bandwidth in high capacity systems
•Easily integrated with existing equipment in the
network
•Bit-rate and protocol independent interface
•Wavelength leasing instead of Bandwidth leasing
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Limitations of TDM Technology
•Maximum TDM line rate one can get in market to
date is 10 Gbps
•40 Gbps is undergoing field trails, but
associated with lot of problem
–In making systems
–Testing and measurement equipments
–Degradation of fiber transmission
–Cost in having protection system
–Overall cost of the network
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Limitations of TDM Technology
•Line cards and other hardware required to
be changed to increase capacity
•Operators tend to build TDM networks
with higher capacity than required,
considering future capacity requirements
•TDM data rates stagnating at 10 Gbps
–Beyond 10 Gbps capacity increase is realized
by building parallel SDH networks
–Each SDH/SDH system required 2 fiber
without protection and 4 fibers with
protection
–So fiber exhaust?
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Limitations of TDM Technology
Optical Fiber
Data Channel (Bit Rate=x)
Data Channel (Bit Rate =
x)
TX
TX
RX
RX
Optical
fiber
Optical
fiber
New
TX/RX
required
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Limitations of TDM Technology
•Propagation delays due to O-E-O conversion
–All SDH NEs do O-E-O conversion for
processing of overhead information
–O-E-O conversion slows down the signal
•SDH not the ideal carrier for data traffic
–Data traffic has its own overheads
–SDH overheads are partly redundant while
carrying data traffic
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Purpose of WDM
LTE
LTE
LTE
LTE
LTE
LTE
LTE
LTE
Traditional Network with Repeaters, no WDM
75% fewer fibers
WDM Network
with Repeaters
LTE
LTE
LTE
LTE
LTE
LTE
LTE
LTE
75% less equipment
WDM Network with
Optical Amplifiers
LTE
LTE
LTE
LTE
LTE
LTE
LTE
LTE
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TDM and WDM
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WDM Classifications
•Classification of WDM is based on the
channel spacing between the two
wavelengths
•Channel spacing > 200 GHz called CWDM
•Channel spacing < 100 GHz called DWDM
•Channel spacing < 25 GHz called UDWDM
0.8 nm = 100 GHz0.8 nm = 100 GHz
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CWDM
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WDM
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DWDM
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DWDM Bands
Wavelength band available for communication
• C band (1530nm - 1565nm, 35 nm)
• L band (1565nm - 1610nm, 45 nm)
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DWDM Types
•Unidirectional & Bi-Directional
•Transponder based systems
•Passive & Active
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Unidirectional
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Unidirectional
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Bi directional
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Bi-directional
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Unidirectional versus Bidirectional
•Unidirectional
–More popular
–Ideal for high capacity growth
•Bidirectional system
–Ideal when there are fiber constraints
–Unsuitable for large capacity
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Transponder Based DWDM
•Transponder is a device that performs an
optical-electrical-optical conversion to a
specific wavelength
•Allows the input of any wavelength to DWDM
•Allows better performance due to control of
input power, dispersion matching of
transmitters, allows use of non-ITU grid
•Better for wavelength leasing, as customer
can send any wavelength and any
wavelength pipe in the network can be used,
requires a bit-rate flexible transponder
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Transponders
1310nm
1550nm
1530nm
1540nm
Transponders
(Wavelength Translators)
Transponders in
Terminal Transponders in
OADM
OADM
1310nm 1550nm
1600nm 1560nm
Any
wavelength
from 1300-
1600nm
Any one
wavelength
from ITU-grid
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Types of Transponders
•Protocol specific transponders
–SONET, GigE Transponders available
•Transponders with open interfaces
–Protocol independent, hence flexibility of
application
–Incoming signals transparently transported
over DWDM
–Does not take care of OAM & P Functionality
provided in protocols like SONET
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Types of Transponders
•FEC Transponders
–Suitable for error prone links, systems
•High Dispersion Tolerant Transponders
–Uses narrow pulse width laser /
modulation
–Used to increase tolerance to
dispersion
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DWDM - Non-Transponder Based DWDM - Non-Transponder Based
•Non-transponder system have the light wave
system transmitter directly input to the DWDM
•Cheaper than transponder based systems, do
not have to buy the transmitter twice (once in
LTE and once in DWDM)
•Requires LTE to be equipped with laser TX of
the exact wavelength
•More flexible for wavelength leasing, as long as
customer supplies proper wavelength can use
any bit-rate any protocol
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Active vs. Passive WDM
•Active means optical amplifiers
•Allows long spans without regeneration equipment
•One line amp can do the work of many regenerators
•Passive means only the WDM equipment, no
amplification
•Useful for short distances where amplification is not
needed
•Avoids expensive OP-Amps
•Adds attenuation loss to the span, shortens
maximum span for non-amplified equipment
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Fiber used for DWDM Applications
•DSF (Dispersion shifted fiber)
•+ NZ-DSF (Positive dispersion shifted fiber )
•- NZ-DSF (Negative dispersion shifted fiber)
•LEAF (Larger effective area fiber)
•G.653 – Characteristics of a dispersion-shifted
single-mode optical fiber cable
•G.654 – Characteristics of a 1550 nm wavelength
loss-minimized single-mode optical fiber cable
•G.655 – Characteristics of a non-zero dispersion
single-mode optical fiber cable
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WDM Networks Evolution
•First GenerationFirst Generation:: Dense WDM networks
with linear architecture used in point-to-
point link, as a high bandwidth pipes
between two network elements. These
systems are integrated with optical
amplifiers and electronic regenerators
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WDM Networks Evolution
•Second GenerationSecond Generation:: WDM networks with
ring and mesh architectures. These
systems are integrated with optical
amplifiers, OADM’s, Dispersion
compensators, OXC’s and electronic
regenerators
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WDM Networks Evolution
•Third GenerationThird Generation:: DWDM and OTDM
networks (All-optical networks )with linear,
ring and mesh architectures. These
systems are integrated with optical 3R
regeneration, OADM, OXC (which supports
Photonic packet switching)
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WDM Networks Evolution
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1×40 G up to 65 km (Alcatel’98) PMD 1×40 G up to 65 km (Alcatel’98) PMD
Limited.Limited.
32× 5 G to 9300 km (1998)32× 5 G to 9300 km (1998)
64× 5 G to 7200 km (Lucent’97)64× 5 G to 7200 km (Lucent’97)
100×10 G to 400 km (Lucent’97)100×10 G to 400 km (Lucent’97)
16×10 G to 6000 km (1998)16×10 G to 6000 km (1998)
132×20 G to 120 km (NEC’96)132×20 G to 120 km (NEC’96)
70×20 G to 600 km (NTT’97)70×20 G to 600 km (NTT’97)
1022 Wavelengths on one fiber (Lucent 99)1022 Wavelengths on one fiber (Lucent 99)
Recent WDM RecordsRecent WDM Records
Source From Internet
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Max DWDM Throughput Achieved
•NEC :10.9 Tbps over a single fiber; 273 channels,
each at 40 Gbps over 117 km, Used S-band, C-
and L-bands for amplification; ultra-dense
channel multiplexing scheme (March 2002)
•Alcatel -- 256 wavelengths at 40 Gbps for 10.2
Tbps, March 2001
•Siemens/Optisphere -- 176 wavelengths at 40
Gbps for 7.04 Tbps, October 2000
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DWDM Networks
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Post Amplifier Pre AmplifierLine Amplifier
Wavelengths Wavelengths
Optical Multiplexer Optical Demultiplexer
Linear Backbone LinkLinear Backbone Link
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Backbone Link With OADMBackbone Link With OADM
OADM
Mux Mux
DemuxDemux
Add Wavelengths
Drop Wavelengths
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Optical Add/Drop MultiplexerOptical Add/Drop Multiplexer
Source From Internet
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Backbone Link With OXCBackbone Link With OXC
OXC
Mux Mux
DemuxDemux
Add/Drop Ports
Add/Drop Ports
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3R - Regeneration
3R regeneration means:
First R :Re-amplification
Second 2R: R + Re-shaping
Third 3R :2R + Re-timing
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3R Regenerators
These Regeneration done by
R- Done by Optical amplifiers
2R- Done by dispersion compensation or
OEO
3R- By using PLL and optical clock
recovery
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Dispersion Compensation Modules
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Purpose of DCM
•Dispersion is the function of the length of the
optical fiber and thus with respect of the length
it increases
•This accumulated dispersion lead to ISI and the
loss of the data in the transmission
•To overcome this accumulated dispersion and
increase the length of the transmission we need
a module called Dispersion Compensating
Module (DCM)
•DCM generally consist of optical elements
having high negative dispersion coefficient
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Dispersion Compensation Module
DCM
with ILA
DCM with
Terminal
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Dispersion Compensation
Methods
•The problem of dispersion-compensation
can be solved by one of way such as;
•Dispersion Compensating fiber (DCF)
•Chirped Fiber Bragg Grating
•Mid-span spectral inversion
•Multilevel coding
•First two approaches are more practical
and implemented in the field while last
two has only academic interests
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Where DCM is Deployed?
DCM are deployed at various places in
the network
–After the transmitters
–With in Line amplifiers
–Before post amplifier
–After pre amplifier
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Optical Amplifier
Types of optical amplifiers
Principle of operation of
amplification
Amplifier vs. regenerators
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Introduction
•In any link, optical power pumped and the
receiver sensitivity is limited and can only
support for a limited distance
•To over come the losses in the network, either
electrical or optical amplification is required
•Optical amplification is more cost effective
over electrical one
•An optical amplifier is a device which
amplifies the optical signal directly without
ever changing it to electricity
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Types of Optical Amplifiers
Two Types of optical amplifiers available
•Solid state Optical Amplifiers
Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers
•Fiber Amplifiers
Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifiers ( EDFAs )
Raman Amplification ( RA )
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Amplifiers in Transmission
Three type of fiber amplifier used in
transmission
•Pre Amplifier
•In-line Amplifier
•Post Amplifier
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Line Amplifier Pre Amplifier
Typical Point To Point Optical LinkTypical Point To Point Optical Link
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In Line Amplifier
ILA
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Pre and Post Amplifiers
•Post Amp is used to amplify the output of a
Multiplexer to a sufficient level to take care of the
link losses
•Preamp is used for amplifying the incoming signal
to a sufficient level for the detectors to sense the
signal
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Unidirectional versus Bi-directional
Terminal
ILA
Bidirectional
Coupler
Terminal
ILA
Bidirectional System
Unidirectional System
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Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifiers
•An Erbium Doped Fibre Amplifier consists of a
short length of optical fibre doped by small
controlled amount of the rare earth element
erbium
•This rare earth element contributes in the
amplification process in presence of pump signal
•Pump laser excites erbium ions which give extra
energy to signal
•Principle of operation is similar to principle of a
laser
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Configuration of EDFA
The typical configuration of the EDFA consists
of:
–Optical pump source
–WDM coupler
–Er
+
doped fiber
–Isolators
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Configuration of EDFA
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Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier
•Pumping with 980nm laser is more effective
than 1480nm pumping
•Commonly used in submarine systems, and
increasingly on land
•Amplification possible at many wavelengths
around 1550nm
•Gain profile is not flat from the EDFA and
need some flatting mechanism
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Principle of EDFA Amplification
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Principle of Operation
•An optical amplification is done with the help of an
optical pump laser of selective wavelength
•Erbium ions are excited by the pump signal and
reached to the higher energy states
•Erbium ion at high-energy state will stimulated by
the signal needs amplification leads these ion
return to a lower-energy called ground energy state
•During this transition these ion emits a radiation of
similar to the signal
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Amplification Profile
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Spectrum of a 32 Ch. DWDM
System
1528.77 nm 1562.23 nm
196.1 THz
191.9THz
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C & L band of EDFAC & L band of EDFA
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Raman Fiber Amplifier
•Basic principle of Raman fiber amplifier is
Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS)
•When stronger optical pump interacts with
the medium generates new signal (a Stokes
wave) in same direction
•New generated frequency is lesser then the
pump frequency by13.2 THz
•In normal fiber this effect is very small and it
takes a relatively long length to have
significant amplification
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Raman Fiber Amplifier
•From this phenomenon signal of lower frequency
then pump gets amplified and the optimal
amplification occurs when the difference in
wavelengths is around 13.2 THz
•Any signal lower then pump can be amplified but
the efficiency will not be the same for all
•Efficiency can be improved by adding an FBG
(Fibre Bragg Grating) reflector for the pump
wavelength
•Thus any frequency can be generated from this
phenomenon
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Amplification in Different BandsAmplification in Different Bands
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Amplifiers at Different Bands
TDFA: Thulium doped fiber amplifier
EDTFA:Erbium doped tellurite based fiber
amplifier
FRA: Fiber Raman amplifier
GS-EDFA:Gain shifted Erbium doped fiber
amplifier
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Amplifier Vs. Repeaters
•Optical amplifier, amplifies an optical signal
without changing it to electrical signal
•Repeaters, Amplifies the optical signal after
converting back to electronics and generates
a new optical signal of the same format
•Reshaping & timing of data stream
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Amplification Vs. Regeneration
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Amplifier Vs. Repeaters Cont.
•Optical amplifiers are required typical after 30 to
100 km depends on the losses in the link
•Optical amplifier are very cost effective fo DWDM
systems
•Regenerations are typically necessary after about
600 km (at 2.5 Gbps)
•Regenerations operation become very cumbersome
for DWDM systems
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Optical Add/Drop Mux
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Optical Add/Drop Mux
•System made of optical Mux & Demux components
•It selects the dropping wavelengths from the
incoming DWDM signals
•Adds the same wavelengths to the outgoing DWDM
signals
•It is a passive system and everything add/drop
wavelengths are fixed at the designing of this
system
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Optical Add Drop Multiplexer
OADM
OADM along
with ILA
without MSA
OADM
OADM along
with ILA
having MSA
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Optical Add/Drop Mux
•Allows a few wavelengths to drop out of fiber
path, not all will need LTE equipment
•Useful at sites where a small number of
signals need to drop, not all wavelengths
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OADM EXAMPLE
ATM IP
Terminal OADM Terminal
Site Site Site
ATM
IP
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Optical Cross Connects
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Optical Cross Connect
•It is consist of Optical Mux/Demux, Optical switch
•Required this device where multiple rings are
interconnection to each other
•Switching can be done in fiber, wavelength and
packet level
•Packet level switching is performed in electronics
domain
•Costly devices, but gives flexible networks can be
made intelligent networks
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Architecture of OXC
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Hybrid SwitchingHybrid Switching
Source From Internet
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DWDM Network Configuration
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Typical DWDM Networks
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OADM
OADM
OADM
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Typical DWDM Networks
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Cross Connecting DWDM
Networks
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OXC
OADM OADM
OADM
OXC: Optical Cross Connect
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Overlay of SONET over DWDM
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OADM
OADM
ILA
OADM
OADM
SONET
ADM
SONET
ADM
SONET
ADM
SONET
ADM
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SONET
ADM
SONET
ADM
SONET
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Physical Ring, Logical Star
•Overlaying of Point-to-Multipoint SONET Network using one wavelength
for every link
•Route diverse protection could be implemented using extra wavelengths
•No reuse of wavelengths
•Underutilization of capacity
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SONET
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Physical Ring, Logical Mesh
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SONET
ADM
SONET
ADMSONET
ADM
SONET
ADM
•Multiple SONET Rings are overlaid on the DWDM
Ring
•Reuse of wavelengths
•Optimum utilization of capacity
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Signal Velocity in Various MediaSignal Velocity in Various Media
Material
Propagation Velocity
(fraction of speed of
light in a vacuum)
Index of
refraction
Velocity of
signal (km/s)
Optical Fiber
Flint glass
Water
Diamond
Air
Copper Wire
(Category 5 cable)
.68
.58
.75
.41
.99971
.77
1.46
1.71
1.33
2.45
1.00029
N / A
205,000
175,000
226,000
122,000
299,890
231,000
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Chromatic Dispersion
•Optical Amplifiers does not correct the
dispersion of the fiber it only amplify the
optical pulses
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Type of Chromatic Dispersion
•When velocity variation is caused by some
property of the wave guide materials - Effect
is called “Material Dispersion”
•When velocity variation is caused by structure
of the wave guide itself - Effect is called “Wave
guide Dispersion”
•When velocity variation is caused by refractive
index profile of the wave guide itself - Effect is
called “Profile Dispersion”
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Chromatic Dispersion vs. Bit rate
Not significant
effect at OC-
48
Significant at
OC-192
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Polarization Mode Dispersion
•Light traveling in single mode fiber vibrate in two
polarization states called modes, represents by x
and y axis of the optical fiber
•Two modes of polarization are at right angle (i.e.
orthogonal to each other)
•Refractive indices of the two polarization modes are
different due to imperfect circular symmetry of
optical fiber
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Polarization Mode Dispersion
•Difference in refractive indices lead to
variation in the velocity of these modes
through the fiber, causing a delay in time
domain
•This delay in time domain between the optical
pulses is known as polarization mode
dispersion (PMD)
•PMD is defined as this difference in arrival
times in pico-seconds, normalized to the
square root of the fiber length (ps/ Km)
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Degradation Due to Non-linear Effects
Channel Spacing
Span LengthCapacity
Power Output
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Noise
Cross Talk
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FOUR WAVE MIXING
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Four Wave Mixing
•Also known as four photon mixing
•Combination of three optical wave produced a new
optical wave
•The frequency of the new optical wave will be
f
FWM = f
1 + f
2 - f
3
•This effect dominates when the spacing of
channels are equal because the mixing products
can fall directly into other channel
•This increased the cross talk between the channels
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Four Wave Mixing (FWM)
f
132f
312
f
321
f
113 f
112 f
123
f
213
f
223
f
221f
332
f
331
f
231
Optical
frequency
f
113
f
213
f
123
f
112
f
223
f
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312
f
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f
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f
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f
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f
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FWM optical power generated by three equally spaced signals
f1 f2 f3
Optical
frequency
FWM optical power generated by three unequally spaced signals
f1 f2 f3
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Stimulated Raman Scattering
Energy
Level
Time
SW Source
LW
Emission
Residue
Emission
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Stimulated Raman Scattering (contd.)
•Short wavelength stimulates long wavelength
emission
•If the long wavelength emission falls within the
usable signal spectrum cross talk will occur
•Cross talk becomes significant when source
power crosses a threshold
•Example: In a 10 channel system with a channel
spacing of 1.3THz, the max power per channel is
3 mw
•In Raman amplification the short wavelength
source acts as a pump
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Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS)
•Similar to Raman Scattering, but stimulated
emission is in a lower wavelength
•SBS limits the total power that can be
injected into a single-mode fiber
•High capacity DWDM systems will have high
power output, which can lead to SBS
•Using special modulation of signal light, SBS
threshold can be raised
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SPM: Self Phase Modulation
•Refractive index of fiber varies with intensity (Kerr
effect)
•Hence different intensity components of the
signal travels at different speeds, leading to
different phase delays for the components
•Phase delays cause signal distortion
•Predominant in G.652 and G.655 Fibers
•Maximum permitted channel power output will
depend on the span length, no. of spans etc.
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CPM: Cross Phase Modulation
•Occurs in DWDM systems when power fluctuations
of one signal result in distortion on other adjacent
channels
•Causes problems in systems with very narrow
channel spacing
•More dominant on G.652 fiber
•Maximum permitted channel power output will
depend on the span length, no. of spans etc. also