EN554 Photonic Networks: Professor Z Ghassemlooy
EN554 Photonic Networks: Professor Z Ghassemlooy
EN554 Photonic Networks: Professor Z Ghassemlooy
Lecture 1: Introduction
Professor Z Ghassemlooy
Northumbria Communications Laboratory
School of Informatics, Engineering and
Technology
The University of Northumbria
U.K.
http://soe.unn.ac.uk/ocr
Prof. Z Ghassemlooy
Contents
Reading List
Lecture 1: Introduction
Transmission Media
History
Communication Technologies
Applications
System
Challenges Ahead
Reading List
Essential Reading List
lyas, Mohammad and Mouftah, Hussien: The Handbook of Optical
Communication Networks, CRC Press, 2004, ISBN 0-84-931333-3
Ramasawami, R and Sivarajan, K.N: Optical network: A practical
perspective, Morgan Kaufmann, 2001, ISBN 1-55-860655-6
Donati, Silvano: Photodetectors: Devices, Circuits and
Applications, Prentice Hall, 2000, ISBN 0-13-020337-8
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Transmission Media
Transmission Medium, or channel, is the actual physical
path that data follows from the transmitter to the receiver.
Copper cable is the oldest, cheapest, and the most
common form of transmission medium to date.
Optical Fiber is being used increasingly for high-speed
applications.
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Bandwidth
Demand
1990
2000
2010
Historical Developments
800 BC
400 BC
150 BC
1880
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- Intelligent networks
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Lightwave Evolution
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10,000
Systems
Research
Experiments
3000
1000
Capacity (Gb/s)
300
100
30
10
3
1
0.3
0.1
0.03
80
82
84
86
88
90
94
96
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02
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A. Chraplyvy
System Evolution
10000
Capacity (Gb/s)
1000
100
10
1
0.1
1985
Optical networking
Wavelength Switching
TOTDM
Research Systems
Commercial Systems
Fiberization
Digitization
1990
1995
Year
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2000
2004
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Commercial Systems
System
Year
WDM
chan nels
FT3
1980
FTG -1.7
1987
FT -2000
1992
NGLN
1995
1999
80
40
2001
160
10 Gb/s
1.6 Tb/s
20,640,000
640 km
2003
128
64
10 Gb/s
40 Gb/s
1.28 Tb/s
2.56 Tb/s
16,512,000
33,0 24,000
4000 km
1000 km
WaveStar
400G
TM
WaveStar
1.6T
TM
LambdaXtreme
Voice
channels
per fibre
Bit rate/
channel
Bit rate/
Fibre
45 Mb/s
45 Mb/s
672
7 km
1.7 Gb/s
24,192
50 km
2.5 Gb/s
32,256
50 km
20 Gb/s
258,000
360 km
200 Gb/s
400 Gb/s
2,580,000
5,160,000
640 km
640 km
1.7
Gb/s
2.5
Gb/s
2.5
Gb/s
2.5
Gb/s
10 Gb/s
Regen
spans
Communications Technologies
Year
Service
1900
500 Hz-km
1940
Coaxial cable
60 kHz-km
1950
Microwave
400 kHz-km
1976
Optical fibre
1993
700 MHz-km
1 GHz-km
1998
EDFA + DWDM
> 20 GHz-km
2001-
EDFA + DWDM
> 80 GHz-km
2001-
OTDM
Applications
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Undersea Cables
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Photonics Institute
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Source
Source
coding
Modulation
Analogue
Digital
Multiplexing
Modulation
Frequency
Time
External
Pulse shaping
Channel coding
Encryption
etc.
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Internal
Receiver
1 -stage
amplifier
st
2 -stage
amplifier
nd
Pre-detection
filtering
Sampler
&
detector
Demultiplexer
Equalizer
Demodulator
Decoder
Decryption
Output signal
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ATM
IP
SDH
ATM
SDH
SDH
ATM
IP
Challenges ahead:
Network protection
Network routing
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Other
True IP-over-optics
Challenges Ahead
Modulation and detection and associated high speed electronics
Multiplexer and demultiplexer
Fibre impairments:
. Loss
. Chromatic dispersion
. Polarization mode dispersion
. Optical non-linearity
. etc.
Optical amplifier
. Low noise
. High power
. Wide bandwidth
. Longer wavelength band S
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Chromatic Dispersion
It causes pulse distortion, pulse "smearing"
effects
Higher bit-rates and shorter pulses are less
robust to Chromatic Dispersion
Limits "how fast and how far data can travel
10 Gbps
60 Km SMF-28
40 Gbps
4 Km SMF-28
cisco
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Input pulse
Combating PMD
Factors contributing to PMD
Bit Rate
Fiber core symmetry
Environmental factors
Bends/stress in fiber
Imperfections in fiber
Global Network
Wide Area
Network
< 100 km
< 1 Tbit/s
Metropolitan/Regional
Area Optical Network
Client/Access
Networks
Cable modem
Networks
SDH/
SONET
ISP
ATM
FTTB
Gigabit
Ethernet
< 20 km
100M - 10 Gbit/s
ATM
FTTH
Cable
PSTN/IP
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Mobile
Corporate/
Enterprise Clients