Developing accurate simulations for high-speed fiber links

Steven Searcy; Andrew Stark; Yu-Ting Hsueh; Thomas Detwiler; Sorin Tibuleac; GK Chang; Stephen E. Ralph

doi:10.1117/12.875560

24 January 2011 Developing accurate simulations for high-speed fiber links

Steven Searcy, Andrew Stark, Yu-Ting Hsueh, Thomas Detwiler, Sorin Tibuleac, GK Chang, Stephen E. Ralph

Proceedings Volume 7960, Coherent Optical Communication: Components, Subsystems, and Systems; 79600A (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.875560
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2011, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Reliable simulations of high-speed fiber optic links are necessary to understand, design, and deploy fiber networks. Laboratory experiments cannot explore all possible component variations and fiber environments that are found in today's deployed systems. Simulations typically depict relative penalties compared to a reference link. However, absolute performance metrics are required to assess actual deployment configurations. Here we detail the efforts within the Georgia Tech 100G Consortium towards achieving high absolute accuracy between simulation and experimental performance with a goal of ±0.25 dB for back-to-back configuration, and ±0.5 dB for transmission over multiple spans with different dispersion maps. We measure all possible component parameters including fiber length, loss, and dispersion for use in simulation. We also validate experimental methods of performance evaluation including OSNR assessment and DSP-based demodulation. We investigate a wide range of parameters including modulator chirp, polarization state, polarization dependent loss, transmit spectrum, laser linewidth, and fiber nonlinearity. We evaluate 56 Gb/s (single-polarization) and 112 Gb/s (dual-polarization) DQPSK and coherent QPSK within a 50 GHz DWDM environment with 10 Gb/s OOK adjacent channels for worst-case XPM effects. We demonstrate good simulation accuracy within linear and some nonlinear regimes for a wide range of OSNR in both back-to-back configuration and up to eight spans, over a range of launch powers. This allows us to explore a wide range of environments not available in the lab, including different fiber types, ROADM passbands, and levels of crosstalk. Continued exploration is required to validate robustness over various demodulation algorithms.

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Steven Searcy, Andrew Stark, Yu-Ting Hsueh, Thomas Detwiler, Sorin Tibuleac, GK Chang, and Stephen E. Ralph "Developing accurate simulations for high-speed fiber links", Proc. SPIE 7960, Coherent Optical Communication: Components, Subsystems, and Systems, 79600A (24 January 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.875560

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