Abstract:
This thesis demonstrates the experimental performance of 10 Gbaud OOK (On-Off Keying) and DQPSK (Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying) optical modulations at 1550 nm wavelength over different distance of Standard Single Mode Fiber (SSMF). The purpose is to study the effect of Chromatic Dispersion (CD) by considering the rise-time budget equation from eye-diagram for OOK modulation and Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) analysis from constellation diagram for DQPSK modulation. According to the eye diagram of OOK, when signal transmits in a long distance of SSMF, eye diagram will be broaden in time with an increase in rise-time. The maximum distance of SSMF is calculated roughly 64.4 km. Therefore, this thesis applies Dispersion Compensating Fiber (DCF) combining with SSMF to reduce the effect of accumulated CD, and measures Bit Error Rate (BER) in different combinations of SSMF and DCF. Moreover, there are 3 cases to consider the BER curves. The first case is over SSMF without compensated CD. The second case is over SSMF with under-compensated CD. The last case is over SSMF with perfect-compensation CD. According to the experimental results, this research achieves can reduce accumulated CD and the BER curves shift leftwards close to back-to-back case. Moreover, the maximum distance is 117 km consisting of 105-km SSMF and 12-km DCF with perfect-compensation CD.