Foundations of High Bit Rate Fiber Transmission Systems

Instructor: Dr. Ivan Uzunov, R&D Manager, Optiwave Corporation

Course Content

Transmitters and receivers

1. Basic models and characteristics

Basic linear effects during pulse propagation in optical fibers

1. Linear loss
2. Group velocity dispersion
3. Third-order dispersion
4. PMD

Basic non-linear effects during pulse propagation in optical fibers

1. Self-phase modulation
2. Cross-phase modulation
3. Four wave mixing
4. Raman scattering

EDFAs

1. Small-signal gain
2. Saturation and noise characteristics
3. Rayleigh scattering
4. ion-ion interaction effects
5. Pump excited state absorption at 980 nm
6. Inhomogeneous broadening

Raman amplifiers

1. Basic features

40 Gb/s WDM systems

1. Examples of 16 and 32 channels in  WDM systems
2. Influence of intra-channel nonlinearities on system performance
3. Modulation formats
4. Dispersion compensation schemes

Soliton systems

1. Optical soliton system concepts
2. Loss-managed and dispersion managed soliton systems

Metro applications

1. Examples of Metro systems at 2.5 Gb/s

Note: The presentation of all of hte above topics will be accompanied by numberical modeling demonstration examples based on the OptiSystem 3.0 software from Optiwave Corporation. This will allow the participants to gain some real life design experience using a commercially available software.