The Combined Impact of SRS And FWM Phenomena on the Downlink Channel Performance of DWDM-GPON Systems

Abstract

In this paper the combined impact of stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) and four-wave mixing (FWM) on the downlink channel performance of dense wavelength division multiplexed-gigabit passive optical networks (DWDM-GPONs) has been compared with the single impact of FWM via signal-to-crosstalk ratio (SXR) simulations performed on center downlink channels of 7-, 15- and 31-channel DWDM-GPON systems. Simulation results show that SRS compensates negative impacts of FWM and compensation significance enhances with increasing channel numbers and channel spacing values. At high channel spacing values of 50 GHz and 100 GHz, variation of SXR can display a strong oscillatory behavior in very short channel length variations of 0.5 km. The combined impact of SRS and FWM enhances the maximum oscillation amplitude of SXR variation with respect to the single impact of FWM at those channel spacing values. It has been observed that Raman gain exhibits an approximately linear variation with channel input powers in 0.1-5 mW range and it increases with increasing fiber lengths, channel spacing values and channel numbers. Results of this research emphasize the significant difference between the combined impact of SRS and FWM and the single impact of FWM on DWDM-GPON systems and give important hints for current DWDM-GPON implementations.

Keywords

• dense wavelength division multiplexing
• gigabit passive optical network
• four wave mixing
• stimulated raman scattering
• amplification factor
• optical fiber
• yoğun dalgaboyu bölmeli çoğullama
• gigabit pasif optik ağ
• dört dalga karışımı
• uyarılmış raman saçılması
• kuvvetlendirme faktörü
• optik fiber