- Title
- Characterization of chromatic dispersion in single mode fibre
- Creator
- Wassin, Shukree
- Subject
- Fiber optics Electromagnetic waves
- Subject
- Electromagnetic waves -- Transmission
- Date Issued
- 2014
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MSc
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/47807
- Identifier
- vital:40379
- Description
- In this dissertation, an investigation of chromatic dispersion is presented. The Pulse delay and phase Shift chromatic dispersion characterization techniques were used for conducting the measurements. The experiments were performed in a modern optical fibre research laboratory and chromatic dispersion measurements were carried out on several lengths of G.652 and G.655 single mode fibres. The pulse delay characterization technique measures the time of flight between two modulated optical signals whilst propagating along the fibre under test. During phase shift experiments, the group delay is obtained by measuring the relative phase difference as a function of wavelength, between adjacent sinusoidal light signals. The pulse delay and phase shift characterization techniques illustrated excellent agreement in the measured! chromatic Dispersion coefficients along the G.652 standard single mode! fibre as well as the G.655 positive and negative non-zero dispersion shifted fibre. It was found that the measurement accuracy improved as the fibre length increased. A periodic shift between the modulated optical signals, propagating along the fibre was experimentally observed. It is to be remarked that the longer wavelength signals propagated faster along the G.655 positive non-zero dispersion shifted fibre in comparison to its transmission within the G.655 negative non-zero dispersion shifted fibre. Furthermore, it was found that the sinusoidal signal shifted towards the left along the G.655 negative NZDSF fibre whilst the shift occurred towards the right along the G.655 positive NZDSF fibre. Generally, the shift arising along the G.655 fibres was found to be smaller than the shift seen throughout the G.652 fibres. Towards the end of this study, a chromatic dispersion compensation system was designed and tested. Once characterization of the compensation link was completed, it was experimentally illustrated that the chromatic dispersion across the system was successfully reduced. Finally, a sum of squares of error statistical test showed that the phase shift technique is more accurate in comparison to the pulse delay method. This result was found to be in good agreement with published work found in literature.
- Format
- xi, 124 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Science
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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