Dispersion compensation using cascaded apodized CFBGs under MTDM transmission technique: Enhanced system performance

Abstract This study focuses on compensating chromatic dispersion affecting the propagated signal in a standard single mode optical fibers (SSMFs). We propose a model that consists of an identical four stages cascaded linear chirped apodized fiber Bragg gratings (CFBGs) in a post-compensation scheme under Maximum Time Division Multiplexing (MTDM) technique. MTDM is free of the limitations resulting from the fiber nonlinear effects. It, thus, effectively utilizes optical wavelength and operating in various network of different distances and capacities. Therefore, MTDM is designed to be used in the high-capacity and high-speed transmission systems. The evaluation of the proposed model performance is performed through a comparative study using different connections and the most common apodization functions. This comparative study includes three cases based on the used connection scheme. A 10 Gbps Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) 70 km link is simulated under ordinary operating parameters. Optisystem 7.0 is used for the simulation and evaluation process, in terms of two metrics which are quality factor (Q-factor) and bit error rate (BER). In the pre-compensation scheme, the highest results are: Q-factor = 7.664 and BER = 8.99 × 10 –15 , using the raised cosine apodization function. Using the raised sine apodization in the post-compensation connection realizes the best performance: Q-factor = 8.58 and BER = 4.77 × 10 –18 . In the symmetrical-compensation scheme and using the raised sine apodization, the proposed model attains the highest Results: Q-factor = 7.49 and BER = 3.53 × 10 –14 . The proposed model achieves at least 92.6% improvement in BER and 3.75% in Q-factor over the related works. The study is a simulation work and is performed through Optisystem ver. 7.