Despite the fact that frequency modulation (FM) was firstly applied to radio signaling 80 years ago (1936, by Edwin Howard Armstrong), it has never been deployed in fiber-optic communication systems. In this thesis, a novel frequency modulated fiber-optic communication system with optical discriminator is proposed. The noise configuration and anti-dispersion property of the FM system are investigated through an analytical model that has been derived and validated with numerical simulations. The performance of the proposed FM system is compared with an amplitude modulated (AM) fiber-optic communication system, owing to the fact that the widely used modulation formats, intensity modulation and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), can be extracted as a model of the basic AM format. Depending on the property of the filter, two types of frequency discriminators are discussed: the leading edge filter (LEF) and the tail edge filter (TEF). Since the amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise is averagely distributed without any frequency dependence, the noise characteristics are not affected by the choice of the frequency discriminator. However, when it comes to the dispersion impairment, the difference between two frequency discriminators is dramatic because the distortion induced by dispersion strongly hinges on the operated frequency.
The results show that, with the presence of noise, the proposed FM scheme can lead to one or two orders of magnitude enhancement in the system’s output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) as compared to that of the conventional AM scheme. Also, with the presence of dispersion, it is proved that the span of the FM system can reliably reach 110km with bit rate up to 10Gbit/s, surpassing the AM system with a maximum signal reach of 70km. A real application, with the presence of both noise and dispersion, demonstrates the overall superiority of the FM system’s performance over that of the AM system. The obtained results suggest a promising future for the FM technique in fiber-optic communication. / Thesis / Master of Applied Science (MASc)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:mcmaster.ca/oai:macsphere.mcmaster.ca:11375/20410 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Yang, Chenyu |
| Contributors | Li, Xun, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Source Sets | McMaster University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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