The 40 Gbit/s optical solitons transmission system in photonic crystal fiber was investigated by fast Fourier transform method, and the maximum transmission distance of system was calculated numerically. By the eye pattern of system, the transmission performances of system were studied. Results show that when polarization mode dispersion coefficient Dp is smaller than , the influence of the PMD on the transmission distance was neglectable. When the dispersion coefficient D is larger than 1.5 ps/km/nm, the transmission distance decreases rapidly. The positive or negative of three order group-velocity dispersion makes no differences on the system transmission.
Optical solitons are generated when group velocity dispersion (GVD) effects and self-phase modulation (SPM) effects reach balance in the fiber. Of course, there are strong demands for the properties of the fiber. The photonic crystal fiber (PCF) becomes the ideal medium for producing solitons due to its controllable dispersion property and strong nonlinear effects.
Solitons with low peak power are launched into highly nonlinear the PCF to generate high-order solitons easily, here the PCF is used as the compressor with high-solitons effect and fiber optical solitons laser to provide highrepetition-rate ultrashort solitons pulse sequence [1-3]. The potential applications of the PCF include generation and transmission of short-wavelength optical solitons, ultrashort-pulse laser, laser with high-power PCF [4-9], solitons generator with the nonlinear effects [
In this paper, optical solitons transmission system was designed at 40 Gbit/s, and all factors which may influence on transmission system are analyzed. Such as the GVD and the SPM, three order group-velocity dispersion (TOD), polarization mode dispersion (PMD) and high order nonlinear effects. The longest transmission distances of system are calculated and system eye patterns are plotted by numerical algorithm in the PCF.
Considering the fiber loss, GVD, TOD, PMD and high order nonlinear effect, the generalized propagation equation of unity soliton takes the following forms:
In the equation, u and v are unitary amplitude along the x and y coordinates, τ is unitary time, is unitary length, and t0 is the initial pulse width. The term proportional to σ includes polarization mode dispersion. The parameter σ is given by. The second term and third term stand for GVD and TOD. The fourth term are self-phase modulation and cross-phase modulation. The term proportional to express fiber loss, and
is given by. The term proportional to s is responsible for self-steepening of the pulse edge, which is a phenomenon that has attracted considerable attention, and s is the self-steepening parameter. The last terms has its origin in the delayed nonlinear response, and is responsible for the self-frequency shift. τR is the Raman dispersion parameter.
Because the random polarization model coupling is sensitive to the fluctuation of surrounding temperature and wavelength of light, the difference of group velocity delay is a statistic value which follows Maxwell distributing. The average value is linear to square root of distance.
In this equation, the unit of the PMD, Dp, and L are ps, , and km, respectively. In order to solve the randomicity of polarization model coupling, we use a usual model of a randomly varying birefringent fiber that is a cascade of many short fibers with constant birefringence. And in every piece, it has the same length Zh and invariable double refraction. Transmission of pulse in every piece follows Equation (1). At the two pieces connections and are two polarization parameters after random rotation of polarization axis and u and v are parameters before rotation and satisfy:
where is the rotation angle of the two polarization models and is the adjunctive phase factor. In this model, the PMD coefficient Dp is given by [
This is the theoretical model we used.
The transmission of solitons in a random double refraction is calculated by fast Fourier transform method. The 64-bit fake random codes transmit in double refraction fiber at 40 Gbit/s and the figures of pulse are hyperbolic secant, Gauss and super Gauss type. One pulse is divided into 4096 points to calculate. In this model, it is assumed that the length of one fiber sect Zh is 0.025 km. By Q judgment method, the relationship of maximum transmission distance, GVD, TOD, PMD and high order nonlinear effects in the PCF are calculated. The transmission performance is evaluated by eye pattern of system. Because of PMD effect, the maximum distance changes randomly depending on random changes of optics axis of double refraction and phase. Under the same conditions, we calculated the PMD for 20 times and mean them to get the average value as the statistical result.
In the calculation, parameters of the PCF are n2 = 3.0 × 10−20 m2/w, Aeff = 3.14 μm2, λ = 800 nm, β3 = 0.082385 ps3/km, γ = 75 w−1/km, α = 0.37 dB/km, R = 40 Gbit/bit, and c = 2.998 × 108 m/s.
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Results show that when the PMD is slight, it can be strongly restrained by solitons. When PMD is relatively large, Gauss and super Gauss type strongly restrain PMD. Because of the PMD effect, two polarization parts of solitons separate gradually, and the center location and center frequency of solitons are changed. By optimizing fiber parameters, the separation of the two polarization parts can be compensated. And at the same time, cross phase modulation causes frequency shift that make the
two polarization parameters astricted each other. Thus separation of the two polarization parts was weakened and PMD is restrained. So transmission performance is the best.
When the TOD parameter and, the maximum transmission distance of solitons, Gauss and super Gauss are calculated as dispersion changes.
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Comparing Figures 3 and 4, it is evident that the distance has slight difference, which indicates that the TOD does affect solitons transmission, and as a result transmission distance decreases. Whatever the TOD is affirmative or not, according to the same GVD and PMD, the maximum transmission distance of solitons changes slightly, and trend of change is similar. It is found that whatever the TOD is affirmative or not, the dispersion causes osillations at the foreside and tail of pulse and dispersion wave. Thus the transmission distance is limited.
In conclusion, the appearance of TOD breaks the balance between the GVD and the SPM effects. As a result, solitons can’t transmit steadily and maximum transmission distance decreases. On the other hand, the center shift and oscillations in pulse caused by the TOD make the coaction of general dispersion (including PMD, GVD, and high order dispersion) and nonlinear effects changing slightly. As a result, the PMD is restrained and sometimes the maximum distance increases but not decreases as the PMD increases.
For further investigation of the effect of dispersion, PMD
and nonlinearity, eye patterns of the system were simulated at different transmitting location in the PCF. The PMD coefficient Dp is and the GVD coefficient D is 1.6 ps/nm/km. Eye patterns of solitons are calculated numerically.