Analysis of Single-Mode Fiber Link Performance for Attenuation in Long-Haul Optical Networks

Karamjit Kaur; Hardeep Singh

doi:10.1515/joc-2016-0027

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Analysis of Single-Mode Fiber Link Performance for Attenuation in Long-Haul Optical Networks

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Abstract

In the past decades, optical fiber has been widely used in communication system owing to low transmission losses, large information carrying capacity, small size, immunity to electrical interference and increased signal security. Focusing on increasing the network transmission capacity, control on the quality of transmission was the field that withdraws attention of research community. For this reason, fiber losses and their compensation remain the important design issue. In the present work, an effort is put in to design a system capable of doing error analysis of system for power losses taking place in the presence of attenuation effect. Attenuation is one of the important phenomena that determine the maximum possible distance between a transmitter and receiver or quantity and position of amplifiers and repeaters in optical networks. The mathematical model equations are obtained representing variation trends of bit error rate BER and Q-value with varying attenuation, which has been verified by different wavelength sources and network conditions.

Keywords: BER; Q-value; Gaussian approximation; attenuation

PACS: 42.81.Dp

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Keywords for this article

BER; Q-value; Gaussian approximation; attenuation