61 results about "Residual dispersion" patented technology

An iterative process is used to set the phase prechirp of a WDM optical transport system to a system's optimal level that maximizes the signal quality. A signal degradation factor takes into account linear and non-linear effects along the optical path and is used as a receive end feedback signal to control the phase prechirp level at the transmitter site. By using the FEC corrected errors rate as the feedback signal, optimization of signal quality is performed even when the system is running error free. By using an adaptive phase prechirp transmitter, signal degradation compensation can be also performed on a per wavelength basis to compensate for the residual dispersion slope and to allow optimization of individual channels independently of the net link dispersion value.

This method provides more flexibility when using optical switching in core networks, as it allows path optimization to new physical link connectivity, without requiring any change to the optical components such that, significant signal degradation tuning range for a WDM optical transport system is provided.

A method is provided for performing chromatic dispersion (CD) pre-compensation. The method generates an electronic signal at a transmitter, and uses a transmit CD compensation estimate to compute a CD pre-compensation filter. The transmit CD pre-compensation filter is used to process the electronic signal, generating a pre-compensated electronic signal. The pre-compensated electronic signal is converted into an optical signal and transmitted to an optical receiver via an optical channel. In one aspect, the transmitter generates a test electronic signal and the CD compensation estimate uses a first dispersion value to compute a first CD compensation filter. The transmitter accepts a residual dispersion estimate of the test optical signal from the first optical receiver CD compensation filter, generated from a (receiver-side) CD estimate, and then the transmit CD estimate can be modified in response to the combination of the first dispersion value and residual dispersion estimate.

A process optically transports digital data over an all-optical long-haul communication path. The process includes transporting digital optical data signals at a selected bit rate and a selected wavelength over a sequence of transmission spans. The sequence includes 70 percent or more of the spans of the long-haul all-optical communication path. Each span of the sequence has a primary local maximum optical power point for the wavelength on a transmission fiber and nearest to an input of the span. The transporting causes a cumulative dispersion of each signal to evolve such that residual dispersions per span are positive over some of the spans and are negative over other of the spans. At the primary local maximum power points, magnitudes of cumulative dispersions of the signals in pico seconds per nanometer remain at less than 32,000 times the inverse of the bit rate in giga bits per second.

An optical transmission network includes a first dispersion compensator arranged in a maximum dispersion span having a maximum dispersion value and searched out from within a maximum dispersion route having a maximum dispersion value from among routes of non-regeneration intervals within which a dispersion value before dispersion compensation does not satisfy an upper limit of a dispersion tolerance, and a second dispersion compensator arranged in a maximum dispersion span having a maximum dispersion value searched out from within a maximum dispersion route having a maximum dispersion value from among the routes when a dispersion compensator is successively arranged until a route of a non-regeneration interval within which a dispersion value of a certain channel does not satisfy the dispersion tolerance does not remain any more based on the dispersion value after the dispersion compensation with respect to the searched out maximum dispersion span. The dispersion compensation amounts of the first and second dispersion compensators are such that, when the dispersion compensation amount of the maximum dispersion span in which the first and second dispersion compensators are arranged is successively increased, the span has a residual dispersion value equal to or higher than a fixed range and the maximum dispersion route which relates to the spans has a residual dispersion value which satisfies the dispersion tolerance or the span has a residual dispersion value which is within the fixed range.

A method and system for compensating residual dispersion curvature in an optical communication network is disclosed. One embodiment employs two types of dispersion compensating fiber to reduce higher order terms in a residual dispersion profile. The two types of dispersion compensating fiber may be co-located in a dispersion compensation module positioned in each transmission fiber link. Alternatively, the two types of dispersion compensating fiber may be distributed across a span of the optical communication network.

The present invention discloses a design method of wavelength dispersion compensation of a desired link that is extracted from an optical network, the link including two or more spans, and two or more nodes (N1, N4) that are equipped with an add/drop function, as shown in FIG. 2. All residual dispersion ranges of paths that reach corresponding nodes are adjusted to fall within predetermined tolerable residual dispersion ranges that are set up for all the paths of the link by adjusting wavelength dispersion compensators provided to each of the spans.

The present invention provides a wavelength division multiplexing system and a method and device for its residual dispersion compensation, wherein the device for residual dispersion compensation of wavelength division multiplexing system comprises: a performance parameter detecting device for receiving and detecting performance parameter of receiving terminal optical signal and sending detecting result of the performance parameter to a central control device; the central control device for deciding a dispersion regulating mode of a tunable dispersion compensator according to the detecting result of the performance parameter and sending the dispersion regulating mode to a tunable dispersion compensator control device through control signaling; and the tunable dispersion compensator control device for receiving the control signaling sent by the central control device and adjusting dispersion compensation amount of the tunable dispersion compensator according to the control signaling in order to make residual dispersion of wavelength channels to satisfy requirements of dispersion tolerance of an optical receiver. Therefore, the present invention optimizes residual dispersion of each channel and solves the problem of transmission performance deterioration caused by residual dispersion of long distance optical transmission system.

The invention relates to an electrical domain dispersion compensation method based on dispersion curves in the WDM network. Electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) technology belongs to a technology that the dispersion problem of optical transmission is treated by mature digital signal processing method. In the WDM system, a traditional one-to-one EDC equalizer is adopted. As more channels are used, the cost of the system is increased gradually; and in aspect of deployment, due to an EDC module, the difficulty of design is increased. TP-EDC receiver provided by the invention avoids the disadvantages. The receiver has function of all of the channels of dynamic equilibrium WDM system. The implementation method is simple, and the deployment is flexible. The method is applicable for the construction of brand new network and the interconnection between new and old optical-fiber networks. The method is also applicable in the environment of crossing a plurality of optical fibers. Due to the key technology of the method, the method is applicable in ROADM network environment, and the method can effectively solve the residual dispersion problem.

The present invention provides an optical transmission system that enables high-speed transmission of 40 Gb/s with low residual dispersion while maintaining the yield of a dispersion compensating fiber. In the present invention, the dispersion compensating fiber is connected to each span of an optical fiber for transmission. One set of an optical transmission path is formed by this optical fiber for transmission and the dispersion compensating fiber, and this one set of optical transmission path is connected in multiple stages and connected to a transmitter and a receiver. By setting the conditions of dispersion compensation in each span comparatively leniently, managing the residual dispersion of each transmission span, and suitably arranging each transmission span, an optical transmission system is composed in which adequate dispersion compensation is performed over the entire optical transmission path.

Embodiments of the invention include system for monitoring the effectiveness of pulse shaping in a nonlinear optical fiber (40). The spectral content of the pulse, after passing through the nonlinear fiber (40), provides an indication of how effectively the pulse was regenerated. A portion of the pulse exiting the nonlinear fiber is tapped off and its pulse energy is measured in at least one selected spectral region. The selected spectral region is one in which the pulse tends to gain energy when effective regeneration is taking place. The information concerning the effectiveness of pulse shaping in a nonlinear optical fiber is fed back to dynamically change the residual dispersion at the regenerator input. The spectral measurement leads to a control signal (48) to indicate a level of performance of the system, or to improve the performance of the system by adjusting an operational parameter.

The invention discloses a recycling method of silicon carbide for recycling silicon carbide in silicon-containing mortar, wherein the silicon-containing mortar contains silicon carbide, silicon, impurities and dispersion. The method comprises the following steps: filtering the silicon-containing mortar to remove dispersion preliminarily and obtain silicon mud; heating silicon mud to volatilize residual dispersion and obtain silicon carbide/silicon mixture without impurities; placing the silicon carbide/silicon mixture in alkaline solution to dissolve silicon in the mixture; and removing alkaline solution with the dissolved silicon to obtain the purified silicon carbide. The invention has the following advantages: 1) the deterioration of dispersion in the silicon-containing mortar can be avoided; 2) organic solvent is not used for separating silicon carbide; and 3) the high speed centrifugation method is not required for separating silicon carbide.

A dynamic dispersion detecting method and apparatus are disclosed. The apparatus includes a tunable dispersion compensation module (101), a demodulator (102), a receiver (103), a partial band radio frequency power detecting unit (104), and an electrical signal ratio calculating unit (105). The method includes: demodulating a phase of a received optical signal; converting the demodulated optical signal into an electrical signal; sampling radio frequency power of the electrical signal to obtain an radio frequency signal; obtaining an electrical signal ratio of the radio frequency signal; and comparing a value of a currently detected electrical signal ratio with the values of the previously detected electrical signal ratios, tuning a dispersion compensation value according to a comparison result to find a peak electrical signal ratio, and obtaining a residual dispersion value of a system according to the peak electrical signal ratio.

A dispersion compensation fiber for a moderate dispersion, low slope transmission fiber and transmission system including same. The dispersion compensating fiber has a refractive index profile having a central core with a core delta (Δ1), a moat surrounding the central core having a moat delta (Δ2), and a ring surrounding the moat having a positive ring delta (Δ3). The fiber's refractive index profile is selected to provide total dispersion less than −80 at 1550 nm and less than −90 ps/nm/km at 1600 nm, dispersion slope less than −0.18 ps/nm²/km at 1550 and less than −0.10 ps/nm²/km at 1600 nm, kappa between 250 and 450 at 1550 nm, and a kappa ratio (defined as kappa at 1600 nm/kappa at 1550 nm) of greater than 1.35. The dispersion compensating fiber, when used in a transmission system, may provide low average residual dispersion across the C, L, and C+L bands when such systems include moderate dispersion, low dispersion slope transmission fibers with a total dispersion between 4 and 8 ps/nm/km, and a dispersion slope less than 0.025 ps/nm²/km at all wavelengths between 1525 and 1625 nm.

An apparatus and method are provided for transmitting an optical duobinary signal using a low bandwidth modulator having a bandwidth of less than about 60% of the transmission bit rate of the transmitter. The modulator is adapted to provide low pass filtering for low pass filtered duobinary transmission in an optical fiber transmission system having residual dispersion.

In the WDM optical transmission system, a high-slope dispersion compensator compensates wavelength dispersion produced in the optical transmission line. The high-slope dispersion compensator has a dispersion slope characteristic, by which a dispersion slope is substantially compensated over the wavelength bandwidth of the optical transmission line, and also a dispersion compensation characteristic, by which the residual dispersion produced after compensating the dispersion slope using the above dispersion slope characteristic becomes symmetrical with respect to a wavelength in the vicinity of the center of the wavelength bandwidth. To achieve the above compensation, a wavelength-multiplexed signal is divided into wavelength bandwidth groups, and the residual dispersion of the optical transmission line is compensated on a group-by-group basis for the wavelength bandwidth groups.

A dispersion compensating fiber module which, when connected to an optical fiber which exhibits, at a wavelength of 1.55 μm, a chromatic dispersion of between +2 and +6 ps/nm/km, a dispersion slope of between +0.075 ps/nm²/km and +0.095 ps/nm²/pm, and a relative dispersion slope of between 0.016 nm⁻¹ and 0.024 nm⁻¹, performs compensation so that the residual dispersion of the connected optical fiber is reduced, the dispersion compensating fiber module includes a dispersion compensating fiber and at least one optical fiber fused to the dispersion compensating fiber, in which the dispersion compensating fiber module exhibits at a wavelength of 1.55 μm, a relative dispersion slope of between 0.016 nm⁻¹ and 0.026 nm⁻¹; and in a wavelength range between 1.525 μm and 1.565 μm, a maximum residual dispersion difference, when converted per km of the transmission optical fiber, of less than or equal to 0.4 ps/nm/km.