THEORETICAL EVALUATION OF NONLINEAR EFFECTS ON OPTICAL WDM NETWORKS WITH VARIOUS FIBER TYPES

Abstract

A theoretical study is carried out to evaluate the performance of an opticalwavelength division multiplexing (WDM) network transmission system in the presenceof crosstalk due to optical fiber nonlinearities. The most significant nonlinear effects inthe optical fiber which are Cross-Phase Modulation (XPM), Four-Wave Mixing (FWM),and Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS) are investigated. Four types of optical fiber areincluded in the analysis; these are: single-mode fiber (SMF), dispersion compensationfiber (DCF), non-zero dispersion fiber (NZDF), and non-zero dispersion shifted fiber(NZDSF). The results represent the standard deviation of nonlinearity induced crosstalknoise power due to FWM and SRS, XPM power penalty for SMF, DCF, NZDF, andNZDSF types of fiber, besides the Bit Error Rate (BER) for the three nonlinear effectsusing standard fiber type (SMF). It is concluded that three significant fiber nonlinearitiesare making huge limitations against increasing the launched power which is desired,otherwise, lower values of launched power limit network expansion including length,distance, covered areas, and number of users accessing the WDM network, unlesssuitable precautions are taken to neutralize the nonlinear effects. Besides, various fibertypes are not behaving similarly towards network parameters.