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Dr. Mohammad Faisal
Dept. of EEE, BUET
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Transmission Characteristics of Optical Fiber
Transmission characteristics
Attenuation or Fiber Loss
Material Absorption
Material Scattering
Waveguide Imperfections
Delay Distortion
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Signal attenuation (also known as ‘fiber loss’ or ‘signal loss’) is one of the most important properties of an optical fiber, because it determines the maximum repeaterless separation between transmitter and receiver. Fiber attenuation is important because a lightwave receiver requires at least a minimum amount of signal power to detect a transmitted bit with an acceptable error rate.
Of equal importance is the signal distortion in fiber,
which causes optical signal pulses to broaden as
they travel along the fiber. The signal distortion limits
the information-carrying capacity of a fiber.
These are the two principal factors to determine the
optical transmission characteristics of fiber.
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Mathematical analysis of fiber loss: Changes in power P of a bit stream propagating inside an optical fiber
Fiber Loss
dPP
dz
α is attenuation constant which includes all sources of power loss
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Material Absorption
Intrinsic Absorption: absorption by fused silica (SiO2)
electronic and vibrational rasononaces associated with specific molecules due to absorption of power at certain wavelength
for silica molecules, electronic resonances occur in the UV region (λ < 0.4 μm) whereas vibrational resonances occur in the infrared region (λ > 7 μm)
intrinsic absorption for silica; λ-range: 0.8‒1.6 μm, below 0.1 dB/km
in fact below 0.03 dB/km in the 1.3 ~1.6 μm range
Extrinsic Absorption: absorption by impurities within silica (SiO2)
transition metal impurities such as Fe, Cu, Co, Ni, Mn, and Cr absorb in the wavelength range 0.6‒1.6 μm
the main source of extrinsic absorption is the presence of water vapors. OH ion dissolves in glass. Three absorption peaks occur near 1.39-, 1.24-, 0.95- μm wavelengths due to presence of residual water vapor in silica.
Factors affecting the fiber loss:
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Attenuation Spectrum for SMF
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Extrinsic Absorption
Material Scattering Rayleigh Scattering: This is the dominant loss mechanism arising from
local microscopic fluctuations in density
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the density and compositional variations are frozen into the glass on cooling
density fluctuations lead to random fluctuations of refractive index which cause light scattering- Rayleigh scattering
the loss due to Rayleigh scattering:
Where C is constant in the range of 0.7-09 (dB/km)- μm4
depending on the constituents of the core
αR = 0.12‒0.16 dB/km at λ=1.55 μm
• Waveguide Imperfections:
Mie Scattering: Due to imperfections at the core-cladding interface
(say core radius variation), scattering of light occurs because of index inhomogeneities
this loss is typically below 0.03 dB/km
4
R C
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Macro-bending Loss According to ray optics theory: a guided ray hits the core-cladding
interface at an angle greater than critical angle to experience total internal reflection. The angle decreases near a bend and may be smaller than critical angle for tight bends. Hence, ray would escape out of fiber.
In terms of mode theory: the part of mode outside the bend is required to travel faster than that on the inside so that a wavefront perpendicular to the direction of propagation is maintained. Hence, part of the mode in the cladding region needs to travel faster than the velocity of light in that medium. Since it is not possible, energy associated with this part of the mode is lost through radiation.
Bending loss is negligible (<0.01 dB/km) for bend radius R>5mm, practically most bends exceed R=5mm.
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Micro-bending loss: Microscopic meandering of core axis is known as micro-bending Slight surface imperfections during manufacturing, cabling process or
cable installation, during service, due to stress for temperature variation etc.
It can cause mode coupling between adjacent modes which in turn cause radiation loss.
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Dry Fiber
Dry fiber is developed which has very low loss over the entire wavelength range of 1.3 to 1.65 μm.
Lightwave systems with thousands of channels are possible
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Dispersion Intermodal Dispersion: only in MMF In multimode fiber,
intermodal dispersion is due to the difference in propagation of various modes of the same signal
Intramodal Dispersion (Chromatic Dispersion): Both SMF and MMF: intramodal dispersion occurs within a single mode, because of group velocity being a function of wavelength
Signal distortion occurs from the effect that the velocity of propagation of a light becomes frequency dependent in the fiber. This dependence is expressed by the following equation
g
cv
dnn
d
Where vg is the group velocity, n is refractive index of fiber medium, is wavelength of light and c is the light velocity.
Thus different frequency components of the optical signal propagate at different velocities. The time delay between different spectral components causes spectral broadening of the optical pulses.
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Dispersion
After certain overlap, the adjacent pulses can no longer be individually distinguishable. This is known as intersymbol interference (ISI) as illustrated in Figure.
Input pulses Output pulses Optical fiber
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Dispersion
1
11
11
1 1 112
1
11
Phase velocity:
2 2group velocity: ; ;
1 2 2;
2
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g
g
g
cv
n
nd c c cv n
dnd n cn
d
d d dv
d d d
dn n dndn
d d d dn
d
c
dnn
d
ng is group index
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Group Velocity Dispersion (GVD)
Consider a fiber with length L, if is the spectral width of the pulse, the extent of pulse broadening for L:
2
2
2
2 2 2
;
;
g
g
dT d L dT v
d d v d
d dL
d d
dL
d
dL where
d
The parameter β2 is known as GVD parameter which determines the how much an pulse would broaden on propagation inside the fiber.
Unit: ps2/km
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Dispersion Parameter
D is the dispersion parameter
Unit: ps/(nm-km)
Fiber dispersion 16 ps/(nm-km) means pulse will broaden 16 ps per nm wavelength after propagating 1 km
2
2
2 2
2
2 22 2
2 2; ,
1
1
2
2;
g
g
g
d L c cT
d v
DL
dD
d v
d d
d d v
d d d
d d d
c d
d
c dwhere
d
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Types of Dispersion
Material Dispersion (DM): It occurs due to refractive index of silica, which changes with optical frequency.
n=f(λ)
Chromatic Dispersion
Material Dispersion
Waveguide Dispersion
Profile Dispersion
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Waveguide Dispersion (DW): Due to waveguide design or structure
Core radius, index DW is negative in the range 0-1.7μm
It shifts the λZD so that the total
is zero near 1.3μm or 1.55μm
2
1 22
1; put
; or
122 1 ;Empirical relation
is zero-dispersion wavelength
since at = , 0.
M g
g
ZDM
ZD
ZD M
d cD v
dnd vn
d
d nn n n n
c d
D
D
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1 2
2
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W
n n d VbD V
c dV
V a NA
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Profile Dispersion (DP): Due to variation of index difference with frequency
Negligible
Total Dispersion:
P
dD
d
0
T M W P
P
D D D D
D
ZMD: Zero material dispersion point
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The fact that waveguide dispersion has opposite sign compared to the material dispersion is of considerable practical interest, which can be utilized to develop special fibers, such as dispersion flattened fiber (DF), dispersion shifted fiber (DSF) and nonzero dispersion shifted fiber (NZDSF) etc.
Dc (ns/nm-km)
Wavelength (nm)
DSF
NZDSF
SMF
- 3 0
- 2 0
- 1 0
0
1 0
2 0
3 0
1 2 5 0 1 3 5 0 1 4 5 0 1 5 5 0 1 6 5 0
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Different Types of Fibers
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Fiber Parameters
Dispersion (DSF) 0 ps/nm-km @1550nm
Dispersion (NZDSF) ±2 to ±5 ps/nm-km
Dispersion (SMF) 17 ps/nm-km @1550nm
But 0@1300nm
Dispersion slope (DSF) 0.055 ps/nm2-km
Dispersion slope (NZDSF) 0.07 ps/nm2-km
Dispersion slope (SMF) 0.09 ps/nm2-km
DFF: low loss, low dispersion: 1.3 to 1.6μm
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Dispersion Compensating Fiber (DCF)
DCF has negative dispersion which is used to compensate for the accumulated
dispersion of SSMF and NZDSF. An appropriate length of DCF (with dispersion like
-70 to -300 ps/nm-km) is inserted into SSMF/NZDSF. Overall dispersion can be
Kept zero using DCF properly at a particular wavelength.
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Dispersion Slope The variation of chromatic dispersion with wavelength is usually
characterized by second-order dispersion parameter or dispersion slope S.
𝑆 = (𝑑𝐷𝑇)/𝑑𝜆 =𝑑2𝜏𝑔
𝑑𝜆2
𝜏𝑔 =1
𝑣𝑔=𝑑𝛽
𝑑𝜔=1
𝑐𝑛1 − 𝜆
𝑑𝑛1𝑑𝜆
τg is group delay which is the reciprocal of group velocity vg. S is related to both second and third derivative of β. Total chromatic dispersion at an arbitrary wavelength can be estimated as
𝑆 =2𝜋𝑐 3
𝜆4𝑑3𝛽
𝑑𝜔3 +4𝜋𝑐
𝜆3𝑑2𝛽
𝑑𝜔2
𝐷𝑇 𝜆 =𝜆𝑆04
1 −𝜆0𝜆
4
𝑆0 = 𝑆 𝜆0