Fiber optic duplexer

In traditional optical communication, duplexity is achieved by using two fibers, each having a transmitter and a receiver. Economically, bidirectional wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) transmission systems utilizing a single fiber will be more attractive not only reducing the use of the fiber b...

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Main Author: O. S. Ali, Abu Baker
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2006
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spelling my-utm-ep.2322018-02-19T03:19:25Z Fiber optic duplexer 2006-12 O. S. Ali, Abu Baker TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering In traditional optical communication, duplexity is achieved by using two fibers, each having a transmitter and a receiver. Economically, bidirectional wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) transmission systems utilizing a single fiber will be more attractive not only reducing the use of the fiber by a factor of two, but also the number of components. Duplex transmissions over a single fiber can double the capacity of an installed unidirectional link. Optical fiber duplexer was implemented in this work, where two signals were carried over a single fiber. The interband and intraband crosstalk were modeled and analyzed. It was found that the intraband crosstalk did not affect the received signal as long as it is below -25dB. Increasing this value caused the power penalty to increase. The power penalty when the spontaneous beat noise of the received signal dominates was calculated. Calculation was also made in the case when the noise is dominated by thermal noise. It was found that the power penalty is worst for the thermal noise dominated case. From the experimental results, it was found that the minimum crosstalk was -39dB and the corresponding power penalty was 0.1513dBm. The case worsened when more than three signals had same wavelength, the gain band between the channels to be transmitted should be according to the ITU-T standards to prevent crosstalk from occurring 2006-12 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/232/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/232/1/AbubakerOSAliMFKE2006.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering
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topic TK Electrical engineering
Electronics Nuclear engineering
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Electronics Nuclear engineering
O. S. Ali, Abu Baker
Fiber optic duplexer
description In traditional optical communication, duplexity is achieved by using two fibers, each having a transmitter and a receiver. Economically, bidirectional wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) transmission systems utilizing a single fiber will be more attractive not only reducing the use of the fiber by a factor of two, but also the number of components. Duplex transmissions over a single fiber can double the capacity of an installed unidirectional link. Optical fiber duplexer was implemented in this work, where two signals were carried over a single fiber. The interband and intraband crosstalk were modeled and analyzed. It was found that the intraband crosstalk did not affect the received signal as long as it is below -25dB. Increasing this value caused the power penalty to increase. The power penalty when the spontaneous beat noise of the received signal dominates was calculated. Calculation was also made in the case when the noise is dominated by thermal noise. It was found that the power penalty is worst for the thermal noise dominated case. From the experimental results, it was found that the minimum crosstalk was -39dB and the corresponding power penalty was 0.1513dBm. The case worsened when more than three signals had same wavelength, the gain band between the channels to be transmitted should be according to the ITU-T standards to prevent crosstalk from occurring
format Thesis
qualification_level Master's degree
author O. S. Ali, Abu Baker
author_facet O. S. Ali, Abu Baker
author_sort O. S. Ali, Abu Baker
title Fiber optic duplexer
title_short Fiber optic duplexer
title_full Fiber optic duplexer
title_fullStr Fiber optic duplexer
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title_sort fiber optic duplexer
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
granting_department Faculty of Electrical Engineering
publishDate 2006
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/232/1/AbubakerOSAliMFKE2006.pdf
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