In this dissertation, we investigate the designs and applications of fiber Bragg grating-based optical add-drop/cross-connect multiplexing systems for WDM long-distance trunk and ring networks, multiple AM-VSB signals transmission systems, and wideband optical amplifiers in metropolitan area network. In fiber Bragg grating-based optical add-drop/cross-connect multiplexing systems, the utilization of multi-port circulator and fiber Bragg gratings can hugely reduce the crosstalk and compact the configurations. Furthermore, we propose the utilization of Mach-Zehnder fiber Bragg grating-based devices with the associated mechanical Optical switches to construct large-dimension fixed and reconfigurable optical add-drop/cross-connect multiplexing system without the needs of additional WDM multiplexers and demultiplexers. In multiple AM-VSB signals transmission systems, we demonstrate the transmission of AM-VSB CATV video signal at 1.55-mm and 155-Mb/s data signal at 1.3-mm over a multi-mode fiber local area network (MMF-LAN) link. On the other hand, we not only demonstrate the possibility of optical circulator with optical bandpass filter, and MUX/DEMUX configurations, but also discuss the transmission distance of extension and the elimination of crosstalk for bi-directional transmission systems of multiple AM-VSB CATV signals. The system demonstration confirms the feasibility of multiple AM-VSB signals over the existing MMF-LAN and bi-directional transmission systems. For the application of wideband optical amplifiers in metropolitan area network, we also present erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) for hybrid WDM systems, and the dispersion-compensated gain-clamped 90 nm wideband optical amplifier in 10 Gb/s DWDM transmission systems. These designs, demonstrations, and results will be useful for WDM long-distance trunk and ring networks applications.

In this thesis, we theoretically investigate optimum configurations of high conversion efficiency and gain-flattened L-band (1570-1600 nm) erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) by employing the 1480 nm and 980 nm bi-directional pumping configuration. The design criterion of L-band EDFA is to achieve highest channel output power while keeping the differential channel gain to be ¡Õ0.7 dB among 32 channels with low channel noise figure of ¡Õ6 dB. The nine L-band EDFA configurations are examined and compared. These configurations considered include the dual-forward, dual-backward, and different bi-directional pumping schemes, each with and without the midway optical isolator. Among all configurations, we find that the pump-pass case in forward-and-backward pumping scheme by employing the 1480 nm pumping wavelength is the best configuration to offer the highest channel output power with good channel gain uniformity and moderate low noise figure. Then we verified the simulation results through experiments. We also theoretically investigate gain-flattened C-band (1530-1560 nm) EDFA. Using L-band and C-band EDFAs in parallel, we can greatly expand the amplification wavelength region.

In this paper, we investigate the optimal design of optically gain-clamped (GC) erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA). Three configurations under discussion, the first uses two optical circulators (OC), one optical band pass filter (OBPF), and one variable optical attenuator (VOA), to form ring cavity. Such ring cavity can regulate itself: when the channel numbers increase, the amounts of optical feedback decrease; contrarily, when the channel numbers decrease, the amounts of optical feedback increase. So it has the gain-clamped ability. The second employs one or double fiber Bragg grating (FBG) to reflect the residual Amplified Spontaneous Emission (ASE) for regulating the signal gain, such configurations have the same self-regulation as before. The choice of center wavelength and bandwidth of FBG can control the signal gain to reach the optimal gain and fairly low noise figure (NF). The third configuration is similar to the first; the difference is that the third with figure-8 cavity, which uses a common OBPF and VOA, can regulate the gain of C- and L-bands at the same time. The choice of OBPF is just located within the dead-zone between the C- and L-bands, where no WDM channels can be transmitted. If we choose suitable loop attenuation, we can get an equal signal gain of C- and L-bands¡¦ channels.

Recently, the long-wavelength band (L-band, 1570-1600 nm) erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) has received much attention. By combining the gain bandwidth of a conventional C-band EDFA and L-band EDFA in parallel, the available gain bandwidth can be increased by a factor of two. The change in the input power and the number of channels leads to the variation of the channel output power, which, in turn, changes the gain spectrum and flatness. To cope with this problem, the gain-clamped (GC) technique has been proposed. The gain-clamping techniques have been extensively explored for C-band EDFAs, but fewer for L-band EDFAs. In this thesis, we experimentally investigate an optically gain-clamped L-band EDFA with different lasing lights (1568 nm and 1600 nm) and different loop attenuation. The characteristics of such L-band GC-EDFAs measured in a simulated add-drop operation are examined and compared. We find that the 1568-nm lasing light with 0-dB loop attenuation is the better selection for L-band GC-EDFA to offer good channel gain (19.4 dB) and satisfied noise figure characteristics. Compared to the gain variation observed for GC-EDFA with an open loop, the GC-EDFA was effective in reducing the total gain variation of 17 dB and increasing the dynamic range of 25 dB.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-12T17:36:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 arquivo7086_1.pdf: 3077238 bytes, checksum: c628d4ad1011c57db4339eeadae79fb8 (MD5) license.txt: 1748 bytes, checksum: 8a4605be74aa9ea9d79846c1fba20a33 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / A crescente demanda por tráfego de dados sugere a expansão da capacidade dos sistemas de comunicações ópticas. Isto pode ser obtido aumentando a quantidade de canais transmitidos utilizando bandas de transmissão alternativas que demandam diferentes amplificadores ópticos. Os amplificadores mais comuns nos sistemas atuais são os EDFAs. Amplificadores Raman e TDFAs são outras possibilidades, principalmente para a banda S. Neste documento, foi proposto pela primeira vez e demonstrado um esquema de bombeamento duplo (800 nm + 1050 nm) altamente eficiente para TDFA. A construção de um protótipo desse TDFA com lasers de diodo para bombeamento caracterizou uma possibilidade de emprego comercial. A distribuição de ganho ao longo da fibra dopada para o esquema de bombeamento proposto é abordada. Também é apresentado um TDFA reflexivo com configuração simples, apresentando 38 dB de ganho de pequenos sinais, utilizando apenas 400 mW de bombeamento em 1050 nm. O efeito de saturação cruzada de ganho é discutido para TDFAs e é mostrada pela primeira vez uma dependência com o comprimento de onda do sinal e do esquema de bombeamento utilizado. Para amenizar o efeito de saturação cruzada de ganho deve-se utilizar técnicas de travamento de ganho. Técnicas de travamento de ganho totalmente óptico de baixo ruído em EDFA são investigadas. São implementados pela primeira vez amplificadores híbridos envolvendo TDFAs e FRA utilizando um comprimento de onda único para bombeamento

ABSTRACT In this thesis, we investigate the amplification characteristics of gain-flattened L-band (1570-1600 nm) erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) by employing the 1480 nm bi-directional pumping configuration. L-Band EDFAs are attractive because the use of L-band and C-band (1530-1560 nm) EDFAs in parallel greatly expands the amplification wavelength region. We adjusted the length of erbium-doped fiber (EDF) to achieve the flat amplification characteristics in the 1573-1600 nm wavelength region without using gain equalizers. The L-band EDFA exhibited a signal gain of 23 dB with good uniformity (less than 1 dB) and a noise figure of 6.9 dB for a 1580 nm signal of 16-channel WDM system. We also used the simulation tools to investigate the characteristics of L-band EDFA with the same configuration. The simulation results quite agree with the experimental data.

This thesis describes single types of wavelength-division multiplex (WDM) according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T). This work offers an overview of components and evaluation of critical parts of network design utilizing WDM technology. There are depicted typical properties, suitable components and channel spacing for each category. Suitable optic fibers according to ITU-T and characteristics of negative effects can be found in the work as well. Furthermore, there are presented most important optic sources, optic amplifiers, optic detectors with filters their requirements and application. They are especially important for achieving operation of WDM system. The fifth chapter considers impact of negative effects in fiber optics and their influence on the system. Then, a WDM system is designed along with management and monitoring the physical layer. The work also presents 1,33 Tbit/s (32 × 42,7 Gbit/s) WDM transmission over 300 km (with three 100 km spans) of post-compensated non-zero dispersion-shifted fiber (NZDSF) LEAF. The capacity of 400 Tbit/s×km is achieved in a single 25,6 nm C band using non-return-to-zero differential phase-shift-keyed modulation (NRZ-DQPSK), balanced detection and erbium-doped fiber amplification. Together with design of transmission system a several simulative analysis has been carried out in order to find the optimum configuration (such as number and distances between amplifiers, length of spans or the way of dispersion compensation) for a high bit rate optical transmission system. It was used a program OptiSystem 8.0.

The main purpose of this diploma thesis is to study of possibilities of optical amplification, ways of realization optical amplifiers and construction of operational EDFA amplifier . According to gained information and knowledge about optical amplifiers, the basic configuration of EDFA amplifier with posibility of connecting up to two EDFA modules, which uses erbium-dopped fibers for amplification, was made. There was also developed a 3D model of front control panel of the amplifier and placement of particullar items was planned. Next step was the construction of EDFA amplifier device and measuring of its parameters and features.

With the essence of robustness toward fiber nonlinearity owing to the increasingly required high-speed data rate from the country to country or country to the state, many useful methods are proposed upon the long-haul optical fiber transmission, such as modulation format, dispersion map and repeater spacing, etc. Return-to-zero differential phase shift keying (RZ-DPSK) format was chosen in this master thesis because of its high tolerance toward nonlinear effect in the wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) system transmission. It has been realized that the system performance is wavelength-dependent by the combination of the WDM technology and the RZ-DPSK system with the commonly used block-type dispersion map, especially for the significant performance difference between including or excluding the self-phase-modulation (SPM) effect. Therefore, it is quite significant to investigate the unwanted fiber nonlinearity. In this master thesis, the influence relating to the cross-phase modulation (XPM) effect and the SPM effect with the conventional dispersion map after long distance transmission is the mainly concerned issue to be discussed. In this master thesis, both experiment and theoretical simulation are investigated. On the theoretical simulation part, the Q-factor of the system zero dispersion wavelength at 1543.8nm, 1550nm, 1556.2nm were degraded and their value were less than 10dB. The Q-factor was around 1.5dB less than the averaged value. However, the performance of the long-haul RZ-DPSK system based on the block-type dispersion map shows no significant performance by shifting the system zero dispersion wavelength out of the WDM signal wavelength band. On the experimental part, the impact of the XPM effect and the SPM effect on the long-haul optical fiber communication system is investigated quantitatively. For the XPM experiment, the system performance was just only 0.1 dB difference after 6000km transmission. On the contrary, for the SPM experiment, the Q-factor between best and worst performance was up to 1.3dB difference. At last, the experiment and the simulation support each other successfully in this master thesis.

Position and navigation of vehicle in two and three dimensions have been important as being advanced technology. Therefore, some system has been evaluated to get information of vehicle&rsquo / s position. Main problem in navigation is how to determine position and rotation in three dimensions. If position and rotation is determined, navigation will also be determined with respect to their initial point. There is a technology that vehicle velocity can be discovered, but a technology that rotation can be discovered is needed. Sensor which sense rotation is called gyroscope. If this instrument consists of optical and solid state material, it&rsquo / s defined by Fiber Optic Gyroscope (FOG). There are various studies in order to increase the sensitivity of fiber optic gyroscopes, which is an excellent vehicle for sensing rotation. One of them is interferometric fiber optic gyroscope with amplified optical feedback (FE_FOG). In this system, a feedback loop, which sent the output pulse through the input again, is used. The total output is the summation of each interference and it is in pulse state. The peak position of the output pulse is shifted when rotation occurs. Analyzing this shift, the rotation angle can be determined. In this study, fiber optic gyroscopes, their components and performance characteristics were reviewed. The simulation code was developed by VPIsystems and I used VPItransmissionMakerTM software in this work. The results getting from both rotation and nonrotation cases were analyzed to determine the rotation angle and sensitivity of the gyroscope.