Simulation and performance analysis of duobinary 40 Gbps optical link

This paper presents a system model to simulate and evaluate the performance of duobinary RZ (DB-RZ) and duobinary NRZ (DB-NRZ) modulation format in a 40 Gbps optical communication link. The design has been optimized to estimate the electrical and optical filter parameters for optimum performance und...

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Published in:Journal of modern optics 2012-06, Vol.59 (10), p.903-911
Main Authors: Sikdar, Debabrata, Chaubey, Saurabh, Tiwari, Vinita, Chaubey, V.K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bandwidths
BER-equivalent Q-factor
Computer simulation
Data transmission
DB-NRZ
DB-RZ
Design engineering
Dispersions
Fiber optics
GVD
Impairment
Links
Modulation
Optical filters
Optics
Optimization
OSNR
Simulation
SPM
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Summary:This paper presents a system model to simulate and evaluate the performance of duobinary RZ (DB-RZ) and duobinary NRZ (DB-NRZ) modulation format in a 40 Gbps optical communication link. The design has been optimized to estimate the electrical and optical filter parameters for optimum performance under dispersion and self-phase modulation induced impairments. The presented model has been operated under various OSNR conditions to investigate the limitations of GVD and SPM on the BER-equivalent Q-factor for DB-NRZ and DB-RZ encoded optical data. The analysis reports the superiority of DB-NRZ over DB-RZ at higher OSNR. However, for a typical OSNR value a crossover optical filter bandwidth has been observed beyond which DB-RZ outperforms DB-NRZ.
ISSN:0950-0340
1362-3044
DOI:10.1080/09500340.2012.677488