Article,
Performance Analysis of Optical Communication Systems using OFDM by Employing QPSK Modulation
International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication, 3 (1): 226--237 (January 2015)
DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.150147
Abstract
The high data rate along with good Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of Next Generation Network (NGN) can be fulfilled by using the optical fiber communication networks. At high data rate, dispersion will be the limiting factor which needs to be suitably compensated. Many efforts have been drawn to the development of dispersion compensating devices / techniques to recover or prevent the broadening signal pulse. The Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is very attractive because of its capacity to handle the dispersion causing pulse broadening at the receiver without changing the internal architecture of the system. Thus Integration of Optical Communication Systems with OFDM system appears to be the most suitable technology for the NGN. The work presented here consist of the design, simulation and performance evaluation for the dispersion compensation in optical fiber communication systems using OFDM for high data rate transmission by utilizing the capacity of the optical fiber channel efficiently. The system performance has been analyzed and compared it with the single carrier optical communication systems. Various simulation results show that systems using OFDM can give dynamically tunable compensation of the dispersion by changing the various parameters of the OFDM systems. The work presented here reveals that the use of OFDM can be used to construct cost effective, high data capacity optical communication systems with extended transmission distance by employing dispersion compensation. These systems have the ability of supporting data rate up to 40 Gbps per optical channel and are appropriate for implementation as upgraded long haul high data rate optical Communication systems
