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Date
Dec. 2005
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Introduces the hardware system of the product from the viewpoint of cabinet, shelf and circuit board, including: 1. The composition, assembly diagram and wiring diagram of each cabinet as well as the functions of the configured shelves, communication relationship between shelves and the technical specifications of the cabinet. 03 Hardware manual 2. 3. The structure, configuration, function, principle, backplane and interfaces of each shelf as well as the DIP switches and jumpers on the backplane The function, principle, panel description, PCB layout, DIP switches, jumpers and specifications of each board as well as whether the board is hot swappable. 4. Structures of other hardware, such as outsourced parts, alarm box and network management console. Introduces the hardware installation method and points for attention, including: 04 Installation manual--Hardware 1. 2. 3. 4. Preparation for installation project Hardware installation flow Installation of cabinets and shelves Connection of cables, including power cables, grounding wires, internal cables
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Course Objectives:
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Grasping the significance and application environment of the DWDM networks Grasping the DWDM principles and the key technology for implementing the DWDM
References:
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Optical Wavelength Division Multiplexing System Modern Communication Base and Technology Principle and Test of DWDM Transmission System
Contents
1 DWDM Overview .......................................................................................................................................1 1.1 Background of DWDM Technology .................................................................................................1 1.1.1 Development of Multiplexing Technology in Optical Network .............................................1 1.1.2 PDH, SDH and DWDM .........................................................................................................2 1.2 DWDM Technology Overview..........................................................................................................5 1.2.1 Different between DWDM Technology and Other Multiplexing Technologies.....................5 1.2.2 Relationship between DWDM and SDH................................................................................7 1.2.3 Operation Wavelength Range ...............................................................................................10 1.3 DWDM Features and Advantages ...................................................................................................12 1.4 DWDM Development Trend ...........................................................................................................13 2 Overview of Optical Fiber Communication ...........................................................................................15 2.1 Basic Knowledge of Optical Fibers.................................................................................................15 2.1.1 Brief Introduction to Optical Fibers .....................................................................................15 2.1.2 Usage Overview of Applicable Frequencies of Optical Fiber ..............................................18 2.1.3 Types and Features of Common SMFs.................................................................................19 2.2 Working Wavelength of DWDM System ........................................................................................20 2.2.1 Introduction to Working Wavelength Area ...........................................................................20 2.2.2 Wavelength Allocation..........................................................................................................21 2.3 Fiber Transmission Features............................................................................................................25 2.3.1 Fiber Loss .............................................................................................................................25 2.3.2 Dispersion.............................................................................................................................26 2.3.3 Non-Linear Effect of Fiber ...................................................................................................29 2.4 New Optical Fiber Types.................................................................................................................33
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3 Key Technologies of DWDM System ...................................................................................................... 35 3.1 Basic Structure of DWDM System ................................................................................................. 35 3.2 Light Source Technology ................................................................................................................ 36 3.3 Optical Wavelength Division Multiplexing and De-Multiplexing Technologies............................ 39 3.3.1 Overview.............................................................................................................................. 39 3.3.2 Introduction to OM .............................................................................................................. 39 3.3.3 Key Performance Indices ..................................................................................................... 42 3.4 OTU Technology............................................................................................................................. 44 3.4.1 Overview.............................................................................................................................. 44 3.4.2 Working Principle and Performance Indices........................................................................ 45 3.4.3 Classification and Applications of OTU .............................................................................. 48 3.5 Optical Amplifying Technology...................................................................................................... 49 3.5.1 EDFA Technology ................................................................................................................ 49 3.5.2 Raman Amplifying Technology ........................................................................................... 55 3.6 Supervision Technology.................................................................................................................. 56 3.6.1 Functions of Optical Supervision Channel (OSC) ............................................................... 57 3.6.2 Requirements for OSC ......................................................................................................... 57 3.6.3 Implementation of OSC ....................................................................................................... 58 4 Protection Principle of DWDM System ................................................................................................. 61 4.1 Brief Introduction to DWDM System Hierarchy ............................................................................ 61 4.2 1+1 Protection................................................................................................................................. 62 4.2.1 Link 1+1 Protection ............................................................................................................. 62 4.2.2 Ring 1+1 Protection ............................................................................................................. 64 4.2.3 Features of 1+1 Protection ................................................................................................... 65 4.3 1: N Protection ................................................................................................................................ 65 4.3.1 Working Principle ................................................................................................................ 65
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4.3.2 Protection Implementation ...................................................................................................66 4.3.3 Features of 1:N Protection....................................................................................................66 4.4 Bidirectional Optical Channel Protection........................................................................................67 4.5 Bidirectional OMS Protection .........................................................................................................69
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1 DWDM Overview
Highlights: z z DWDM definitions and generation background. DWDM development trend.
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technology is widely applied. It is the base of PDH, SDH, ATM and IP. But its disadvantage is low line utilization ratio. The WDM technology supports multiple wavelengths (channels) to be carried on one fiber. So it is the major measure for expanding the current fiber communication network and is mostly used in trunk network.
Table 1.1-1 Country/Region Europe China and Primary Group (Primary) 2.048Mbit/s 30 channels 1.544Mbit/s 24 channels 1.544Mbit/s 24 channels
PDH Code Rate Tertiary Group 34.368Mbit/s 480 channels (120 4) 44.736Mbit/s 672 channels (96 7) 32.064Mbit/s 480 channels (96 5) Quartus Group 139.264Mbit/s 1920 (480 4) 274.176Mbit/s 4032 (672 6) 97.728Mbit/s 1440 (480 3) channels channels channels
Secondary Group 8.448Mbit/s 120 channels (30 4) 6.312Mbit/s 96 channels (24 4) 6.312Mbit/s 96 channels (24 4)
North America
Japan
From early 1970's to 1980's, the PDH system and devices are popularly used in the digital network. However, along with the developing fiber communication technology and user's increasing demands for communication services, the PDH disadvantages are more and more remarkable. 1) The compatibility between three rate standards is not available, which obstructs development of international interconnection. 2) There is no worldwide standard optical interface specification. Private optical interfaces developed by different manufacturers are not compatible with each other, which limits networking flexibility and increases network complexity and operation costs. 3) PDH is a kind of multiplexing structure based on point-to-point transmission. It only supports point-to-point transmission, but cannot accommodate complicated networking. 4) The operation, management and maintenance must depend upon manual digital signal cross-connection and service-suspension test, which cannot meet monitoring and NM requirements of modern communication network. 5) Along with rate increase, it is more and more difficult to implement multiplexing of high-order groups through PDH technology, and requirements of fiber digital communication for large-capacity and super-high speed transmission cannot be met.
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SDH In mid-1980's, the Bell Communication Research Institute in America put forward the concept of Synchronous Optical Network (SONET). In 1988, the CCITT (former ITU-T) accepted the SONET concept, formed the worldwide unified technology standard for transmission network, and rename it as SDH. The SDH signals use synchronous multiplexing mode and flexible multiplexing and mapping structure. Code streams of different levels are arranged regularly in the payload of the frame structure. The payload is synchronous with the network, so software can be used to directly de-multiplex a high-speed signal into low-speed tributary signals at a time, called one-step de-multiplexing. The rate specifications of the SDH system are shown in Table 1.1-2.
Table 1.1-2 SDH Signal Levels Line Rate (Mbit/s) 155.520 622.080 2488.320 9953.280
SDH Level (ITU-T) STM-1 STM-4 STM-16 STM-64 OC-3 OC-12 OC-48
OC Level (SONET)
OC-192
The SDH standardizes the features of the digital signals, such as frame structure, multiplexing mode, transmission rate level and interface code pattern. It provides a frame that is supported globally, on which a world-class telecom transmission network has been developed, featuring flexibility, reliability and convenient management. This kind of transmission network is easy to expand and is applicable to the development of new telecom services. In addition, it makes possible the interworking between the devices of different manufacturers. But, after the transmission rate is higher than 10 Gbit/s, the system dispersion and other negative influences will increase difficulty of long-distance transmission. Furthermore, the SDH system is the TDM system based on the single wavelength. The single-wavelength transmission cannot fully utilize the broad bandwidth of fiber. Therefore, the WDM technology is introduced in the backbone network, greatly enlarging the transmission capacity of fiber.
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DWDM DWDM is one of WDM technologies. Due to small interval (1 nm ~ 10 nm order) between adjacent wavelengths, it is called DWDM. At present, the practical DWDM system works in 1550 nm window for the purpose of using the gain spectrum feature of the EDFA to directly amplify the composite optical wavelength signals. To meet the horizontal compatibility between systems, the central wavelength of the optical channel must accord with G.692 standard. In the DWDM system, each optical channel can bear different customer signals, such as SDH signal, PDH optical signal and ATM signal. Due to unique advantages of fiber communication and its networking technologies for accommodating multi-service and broadband requirements, high-speed SDH system, N 2.5Gbit/s DWDM system and N 10Gbit/s DWDM system become majority and backbone of the core network.
between
DWDM
Technology
and
Other
Multiplexing
This section compares the multiplexing technologies often used in the fiber communication system. 1. TDM TDM means that different channels of signals use different time intervals (timeslot) for signal transmission on the same fiber. The TDM has fixed timeslot allocation, which facilitate adjustment and control and is applicable to the digital information transmission.
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Its disadvantage is low line utilization, because when a signal source has no data for transmission, the corresponding channel will be idle but the other busy channels cannot occupy this idle channel. In addition, restricted by modulation capacity of high-speed electronic components and laser, it is difficult to implement the system with a capacity over 40 Gbit/s. The TDM technology is widely applied, such as PDH, SDH, ATM and IP. 2. SDM SDM means the technology that divide space into different channels to implement wavelength multiplexing. For example, you can add the core quantity in the cable or use more fibers to form different channels. The SDH performs optical intensity modulation to each channel of baseband signals respectively. Each channel of signals are transmitted by one fiber, different channels will not affect each other, leading to best transmission performance. The SDM technology has simple design and practical feature, but it requires that the fiber transmission core quantity must be configured in accordance with the signal multiplexing channel quantity, leading to poor investment profit. 3. SCM Microwave Sub-Carrier Multiplexing (SCM) technology means to modulate multiple baseband signals into the microwave carriers with different frequency for the sake of electrical Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM), and then use this bit stream to modulate a single optical carrier into the fiber. At the receiving end, pick the electrical FDM line signals through the photoelectrical detector and then use microwave technology to de-multiplex the different microwave carriers, to restore the former baseband signals. This technology is mostly used in the CATV multi-band transmission system of access network. 4. WDM WDM means to bear multiple wavelength (channel) systems on one fiber and convert one fiber into multiple "virtual" fibers, each of which independently works on different wavelengths. Boasting economical efficiency and practicability, the WDM system technology is the major wavelength
multiplexing technology commonly used in the current fiber communication network. The WDM is divided into three multiplexing modes: 1310 nm/1550 nm-wavelength multiplexing, Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing (CWDM) and DWDM. 1) 1310 nm/1550 nm-wavelength multiplexing In early 1970's, this multiplexing technology only uses two wavelengths: one in 1310 nm window and the other in 1550 nm window. It implements single-fiber dual-window transmission through the WDM technology. It is the initial wavelength division multiplexing case. 2) DWDM In simple words, the DWDM technology refers to the WDM technology with small interval between adjacent wavelengths, with working wavelength in the 1550 nm window. It can bear 8 ~ 160 wavelengths on one fiber, mostly used in long-distance transmission system. For the details, please refer to other chapters in this manual. 3)
CWDM
The CWDM technology refers to the WDM technology with large interval (usually greater than 20 nm) between adjacent wavelengths. Usually, its wavelength quantity is 4 or 8 (16 at most). It uses 1200 nm ~ 1700 nm windows. It adopts non-cooling laser and passive amplifier component, leading to a lower cost than that of DWDM. Its disadvantages are small capacity and short transmission distance. Therefore, the CWDM technology applies to the communication cases with short distance, broad bandwidth and dense access points, for example, the network communication inside the building or between buildings.
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Both DWDM system and SDH system belong to the transmission network layer. They are the transmission means established on the fiber transport media. Their relationship in the transport network is shown in Fig. 1.2-1.
SDH system
ADM
OADM
DWDM system
OTM
Fig. 1.2-1
The SDH system implements multiplexing, cross-connection and networking on the electrical channel layer. The WDM system implements multiplexing, cross-connection and networking on the optical domain. 2. Multiplexing modes of DWDM and SDH for carrier signals The SDH is the TDM system based on a single wavelength (one fiber transmitting one wavelength channel). When the transmission rate exceeds 10 Gbit/s, the system dispersion and other negative influences will increase the difficulty of long-distance transmission. The DWDM technology simultaneously transmits multiple optical carrier signals of different wavelengths in the same fiber, fully utilizing the bandwidth resources of fiber and increasing system transmission capacity. 3. DWDM capable of transmitting different types of signals At present, most customer-layer signals in the DWDM system are SDH signals. But the wavelengths used in the DWDM system are mutually separated and
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irrelated with the service signal formats, so each wavelength can transmit the optical signals with totally different features, for the sake of hybrid transmission of multiple kinds of signals. The relationship between DWDM system and some common services is shown in Fig. 1.2-2.
IP
ATM
SDH
ATM
Ethernet
Other
SDH
DWDM Fiber physical layer Fig. 1.2-2 Relationship between DWDM and Other Services
4.
Optical interface standards of DWDM and SDH signals The optical interfaces of the SDH device should accord with the ITU-T G.957 recommendation, which does not stipulate the working central wavelength. The optical interfaces in the DWDM system must accord with the ITU-T G.692 recommendation, which specifies the reference frequency of each optical channel, channel interval, nominal central frequency (central wavelength), central frequency offset and other parameters. Therefore, the DWDM system can be either open DWDM system or integrated DWDM system.
Open system: The transmitting side of the WDM system provides the optical wavelength converter (OTU) to converts the customer signals with non-standard wavelength into the standard wavelength compliant with G.692 standard. "Open" means that the DWDM system has no special requirement for the working wavelength of the input signals, for example, the signals accessed through "Open interface" shown in Fig. 1.2-2.
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Integrated system: All the customer signals accessing the DWDM system must accord with G.692 standard, for example, the signals accessed through "Non-open interface" shown in Fig. 1.2-2.
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Integrated application of DWDM and SDH The transmission capacity of the fiber network can be effectively improved through integrated application of DWDM and SDH.
O: Original Band
E: Extend Band
S: Short Band
C: Conventional Band
Fig. 1.2-3
1.
860 nm window Its wavelength range is 600 nm ~ 900 nm. It is used in multi-mode fiber, with large transmission loss (2 dB/km averagely). It is applicable to the short-distance access network, such as Fiber Channel (FC) service.
2.
1310 nm window The lower limit of the available wavelength here depends on the fiber cut-off wavelength and fiber attenuation coefficient, and the upper limit depends on OH
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root absorption peak at 1385 nm. The working wavelength range is 1260 nm ~ 1360 nm. The average loss is 0.3 dB/km ~ 0.4 dB/km. This window is applied to intra-office, short-distance and long-distance communication of STM-N signal (N = 1, 4 or 16). The light source can be multi-longitudinal mode laser (MLM) and LED. Since the broadband optical amplifier working in 1310 nm window is not available at present, this window is not suitable for the DWDM system. 3. 1550 nm window The lower limit of the available wavelength here depends on OH root absorption peak at 1385 nm, and the upper limit depends on infrared absorption loss and bending loss. . The working wavelength range is 1460 nm ~ 1625 nm. The average loss is 0.19 dB/km ~ 0.25 dB/km. The loss in the 1550 nm window is the lowest, so it can be applied to short-distance and long-distance communication of SDH signals. In addition, the EDFA often used currently has sound gain flatness in this window, so this window is applicable to the DWDM system as well. The working wavelength in the 1550 nm window is divided into three parts (S band, C band and L band), with the wavelength range shown in Fig. 1.2-4.
Fig. 1.2-4
1)
S band (1460 nm ~ 1530 nm): Since the working wavelength range of EDFA is in C band or L band, S band is not used in the DWDM system at present.
2)
C band (1530 nm ~ 1565 nm): It is often used as the working wavelength area of the DWDM system under 40 waves (with band interval as 100 GHz), DWDM system under 80 waves (with band interval as 50 GHz) and SDH system.
3)
L band (1565 nm ~ 1625 nm): Working wavelength area of the DWDM system above 80 waves. In this case, the band interval is 50 GHz.
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performing optical channel adding/dropping and cross-connection to the services on the optical wavelength signals, and thus forming full optical network with high flexibility, reliability, survivability and economical efficiency to meet the requirements of future information society for the broadband transport network.
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The further expansion opportunity depends on the optical nodes, that is, OADM and OXC. Through OADM, we can construct chain and ring optical networks. The OADM controls the optical signals of different wavelength channels to be sent to the proper locations, for the sake of protection and restoration of optical services. OXC is the route switch of next generation optical communication. In the full optical network, it provides these functions: Providing connection function based on wavelengths, providing wavelength add/drop function of optical channels, leading the wavelength channels for the sake of best utilization of fiber infrastructure, and implementing protection and restoration on wavelength, wavelength and fiber levels. The OXC is set at the important tandem point of the network, converging input of different wavelengths from different directions and then output signals with proper wavelengths. Through OADM and OXC, we can construct more complicated ring network. In the next generation IP Over DWDM telecom/network architecture, the OXC may replace the existing electrical switching/route by optical signals. 5. Development of IP over DWDM technology The bandwidth of the Internet backbone network increases quickly, so if the DWDM technology is not used, Internet data streams alone will occupy the capacity of the whole single-wavelength fiber system (at present, the maximum transmission rate of the single-wavelength fiber system for commercial use is 10 Gbit/s). Therefore, the IP over DWDM will be the major technology of the network communication in the future.
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n2
n1: Refractive index of fiber core n2: Refractive index of cladding
n1
Fig. 2.1-1
1)
Fiber core It is made of SiO2 (quartz). It also comprises few doped chemical, such as GeO2, to improve refractive index (n1) of the fiber core. The diameter of the fiber core usually ranges 5 m ~ 50 m.
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Cladding Usually, it is made of SiO2, with outer diameter as 125 m. The refractive index (n2) of cladding is less than that (n1) of fiber core.
3)
Coating layer It is made of high molecular materials, such as epoxide resin and silicone rubber, with outer diameter as about 250 m. Through adding coating, we can improve flexibility, mechanical strength and aging-resistance features of the optical fiber.
2. 1)
Fiber categories By distribution shape of refractive index When the light is transmitted in the fiber, each light shoots into the juncture between fiber core and cladding in proper angle. Since the refractive index (n1) of the fiber core is greater than that (n2) of the cladding, when the shooting-in angle of the light meets the full reflection condition, the light can be repeatedly reflected on the juncture and move forwards in "zigzag" way, and thus restricting the light inside the fiber core and forming transmission wave. Depending on the refractive index radio distribution on the fiber cross section, the fiber is divided into step-type fiber and graded fiber. The relationship between refractive index and fiber structure as well as the transmission of light in the fiber are shown in Fig. 2.1-2.
n2 Cladding Fiber core Light n2 Cladding
n1
a: Step-type fiber
n1
b: Graded fiber
Fig. 2.1-2
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2)
By fiber material Besides quartz fiber, the fibers can be divided into quartz fiber, glass fiber with many compositions, quartz-plastic fiber with quartz core and plastic cladding, and full-plastic fiber with plastic core and plastic cladding, by material. Such fibers have greater loss than the quartz fiber, so they are usually used by the short-distance systems inside buildings or rooms.
3)
By transmission mode Light is a kind of electromagnetic wave. Therefore, the light transmitted in the fiber should not only meet full-reflection condition between fiber core and cladding, but also meet the related conditions for electromagnetic wave in the transmission process. For the specified fiber structure, only a series specified electromagnetic wave can be effectively transmitted in the fiber. Such specified electromagnetic wave is called optical fiber mode. In the fiber, the conductible mode quantity depends on structure and refractive index radial distribution of the fiber. If the fiber supports only one conduction mode (base mode), this fiber is called Single-Mode Fiber (SMF) and its core transmits only one light. If the fiber supports multiple conduction modes, this fiber is called Multi-Mode Fiber (MMF), and each light in its core is in a transmission mode. Fig. 2.1-2 shows two typical multi-mode fibers. The differences between SMF and MMF are listed in Table 2.1-1.
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Table 2.1-1
Differences Between SMF and MMF MMF Supporting multiple conduction modes Greater (about 50 m) of Large mode dispersion due to different transmission rates of different modes, directly affecting transmission bandwidth and transmission distance Ordinary MMF
SMF Transmission mode Fiber core Dispersion influence Only supporting transmission in base mode Smaller (about 5 m ~ 10 m) Caused by transmission rates different frequency components in the optical signal; increasing along with increased optical signal spectrum width Ordinary SMF, Dispersion Shifted Type Working window Applications Fiber (DSF) and Dispersion Compensation Fiber (DCF) 1310 nm and 1550 nm Long-distance fiber communication
II
III IV
O: Original Band
E: Extend Band
S: Short Band
C: Conventional Band
Fig. 2.1-3
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The optical signal mark, wavelength range, applied fiber types and application of each window are described in Table 2.1-2.
Table 2.1-2 Window Mark (nm) Wavelength range (nm) Fiber type 850 600~900 MMF Short Applications distance and low rate I 1310 band) 1260~1360 MMF/G.652/ G.653 Short distance and low rate Long distance and high rate Feature Comparison between Low-Loss Windows II (O III 1550 (C band) 1530~1565 G.652/G.653/G .655 IV 1600 (L band) 1565~1625 G.652/G.653/G .655 V 1360 ~ 1530 (E + S bands) 1360~1530 Full-wave fiber
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G.655 (non-zero dispersion shifted SMF) In the 1550 nm window, the absolute value of its dispersion is not zero and within a certain range (ensuring smallest loss and small dispersion in this window). It is applicable to the high-rate and long-distance optical communication system. In addition, non-zero dispersion suppresses the influence of non-linear FWM over DWDM system. Therefore, this kind of fiber is usually used in the DWDM system.
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Frequency range: C band (192.1 THz ~ 196.0 THz) + L band (190.90 THz ~ 186.95 THz) Channel interval: 50 GHz Central frequency offset: 5 GHz
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Central Frequency (THz) 194.4 194.5 194.6 194.7 194.8 194.9 195.0 195.1 195.2 195.3 195.4 195.5 195.6 195.7 195.8 195.9 196.0 1542.14 1541.35 1540.56 1539.77 1538.98 1538.19 1537.40 1536.61 1535.82 1535.04 1534.25 1533.47 1532.68 1531.90 1531.12 1530.33 1529.55
Wavelength (nm)
2.
The wavelength allocation for C/C+ band 80-wavelength system with wavelength interval of 50 GHz is shown in Table 2.2-2.
Table 2.2-2 Wavelength Allocation of 80CH/50 GHz Interval on C/C+ Band Nominal Central Wavelength nm 1529.16 1529.55 1529.94 1530.33 1530.72 1531.12 1531.51 1531.90 1532.29 1532.68 1533.07 1533.47 1533.86 22 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 Wavelength No. Nominal Central Frequency THz 194.05 194.00 193.95 193.90 193.85 193.80 193.75 193.70 193.65 193.60 193.55 193.50 193.45 Nominal Central Wavelength nm 1544.92 1545.32 1545.72 1546.12 1546.52 1546.92 1547.32 1547.72 1548.11 1548.51 1548.91 1549.32 1549.72
Nominal Wavelength No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Central Frequency THz 196.05 196.00 195.95 195.90 195.85 195.80 195.75 195.70 195.65 195.60 195.55 195.50 195.45
Nominal Wavelength No. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Central Frequency THz 195.40 195.35 195.30 195.25 195.20 195.15 195.10 195.05 195.00 194.95 194.90 194.85 194.80 194.75 194.70 194.65 194.60 194.55 194.50 194.45 194.40 194.35 194.30 194.25 194.20 194.15 194.10
Nominal Central Wavelength nm 1534.25 1534.64 1535.04 1535.43 1535.82 1536.22 1536.61 1537.00 1537.40 1537.79 1538.19 1538.58 1538.98 1539.37 1539.77 1540.16 1540.56 1540.95 1541.35 1541.75 1542.14 1542.54 1542.94 1543.33 1543.73 1544.13 1544.53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 Wavelength No.
Nominal Central Frequency THz 193.40 193.35 193.30 193.25 193.20 193.15 193.10 193.05 193.00 192.95 192.90 192.85 192.80 192.75 192.70 192.65 192.60 192.55 192.50 192.45 192.40 192.35 192.30 192.25 192.20 192.15 192.10
Nominal Central Wavelength nm 1550.12 1550.52 1550.92 1551.32 1551.72 1552.12 1552.52 1552.93 1553.33 1553.73 1554.13 1554.54 1554.94 1555.34 1555.75 1556.15 1556.55 1556.96 1557.36 1557.77 1558.17 1558.58 1558.98 1559.39 1559.79 1560.20 1560.61
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The wavelength allocation for L/L+ band 80-wavelength system with wavelength interval of 50 GHz is shown in Table 2.2-3.
Table 2.2-3 Wavelength Distribution of 80CH/50 GHz Interval on L/L+ Band Nominal Central Wavelength nm 1570.42 1570.83 1571.24 1571.65 1572.06 1572.48 1572.89 1573.30 1573.71 1574.13 1574.54 1574.95 1575.37 1575.78 1576.20 1576.61 1577.03 1577.44 1577.86 1578.27 1578.69 1579.10 1579.52 1579.93 1580.35 1580.77 1581.18 1581.60 1582.02 1582.44 1582.85 24 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 Wavelength No. Nominal Central Frequency THz 188.90 188.85 188.80 188.75 188.70 188.65 188.60 188.55 188.50 188.45 188.40 188.35 188.30 188.25 188.20 188.15 188.10 188.05 188.00 187.95 187.90 187.85 187.80 187.75 187.70 187.65 187.60 187.55 187.50 187.45 187.40 Nominal Central Wavelength nm 1587.04 1587.46 1587.88 1588.30 1588.73 1589.15 1589.57 1589.99 1590.41 1590.83 1591.26 1591.68 1592.10 1592.52 1592.95 1593.37 1593.79 1594.22 1594.64 1595.06 1595.49 1595.91 1596.34 1596.76 1597.19 1597.62 1598.04 1598.47 1598.89 1599.32 1599.75
Nominal Wavelength No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Central Frequency THz 190.90 190.85 190.80 190.75 190.70 190.65 190.60 190.55 190.50 190.45 190.40 190.35 190.30 190.25 190.20 190.15 190.10 190.05 190.00 189.95 189.90 189.85 189.80 189.75 189.70 189.65 189.60 189.55 189.50 189.45 189.40
Nominal Wavelength No. 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Central Frequency THz 189.35 189.30 189.25 189.20 189.15 189.10 189.05 189.00 188.95
Nominal Central Wavelength nm 1583.27 1583.69 1584.11 1584.53 1584.95 1585.36 1585.78 1586.20 1586.62 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 Wavelength No.
Nominal Central Frequency THz 187.35 187.30 187.25 187.20 187.15 187.10 187.05 187.00 186.95
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The line loss values of the common fibers are shown in Table 2.3-1.
Table 2.3-1 Fiber Type G.652 0.3 dB/km ~ 0.4 dB/km 0.15 dB/km dB/km ~ 0.25 0.19 dB/km ~ 0.25dB/km 1550 nm SMF Loss G.653 0.19 dB/km ~ 0.25 dB/km 1550 nm G.655
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Relationship between fiber loss and OSNR OSNR means the ratio between optical signal power and noise power. It is very important for estimating and measuring bit error performance, engineering design and maintenance. Take the OSNR at the receiving end of the DWDM system as an example, the calculation formula is: OSNR = Pout 10logM - L + 58 - NF - 10logN Here, Pout: In-fiber optical power (dBm). M: Number of multiplexing channels of the WDM system L: Loss between any two optical amplifiers, that is, sectional loss (dB) NF: Noise index of the EDFA. N: Number of the EDFAs between optical multiplexer and optical de-multiplexer of the WDM system. The formula shows this: When the other parameters keep unchanged, greater line loss leads to lower OSNR, which means decreased transmission quality of the optical line. In the initial design of the DWDM, except loss limit and dispersion limit, the OSNR at the receiving end, Q value and BER should also be considered. The design is qualified only when these three factors are qualified.
2.3.2 Dispersion
After the optical pulse signals entering the fiber through input end are transmitted for a long distance, the pulse wave shape spreads by time at the fiber output end, this
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Dispersion will cause inter-symbol interference, affects correct judgment of optical pulse signal at the receiving end, deteriorates BER performance and even affects information transmission. The dispersion in the SMF is caused by different transmission rates of different frequency components in the optical signal, and is called chroma dispersion. In the area with negligible chroma dispersion, the polarization mode dispersion is the major part of SMF dispersion. The phenomena and causes of chroma dispersion and polarization mode dispersion will be introduced below, as well as their influences to the DWDM system. 2.3.2.1 Chroma Dispersion 1. Brief introduction to chroma dispersion Chroma dispersion is divided into material dispersion and waveguide dispersion. 1) Material dispersion: The quartz glass, fiber material, has different refractive index for different optical wavelengths. While the light source has certain spectrum width, and different wavelengths results in different group rates, so the optical pulse spreading will occur. 2) Waveguide dispersion: For a transmission mode of the fiber, the pulse spreading occurs due to different group rates in different optical wavelengths. This dispersion is related to the waveguide effect of fiber structure, so it is also called structure dispersion. Material dispersion is greater than waveguide dispersion. According to the dispersion calculation formula, the material dispersion at a specific wavelength
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2.3.2.2 Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD) PMD is a kind of physical phenomenon existing in optical fiber and optical component fields. The baseband in the SMF has two polarization modes that are orthogonal. In the ideal case, two polarization modes should have the same feature curve and transmission characteristics. Due to geometrical and pressure asymmetry, two polarization modes have different transmission rates, resulting in delay and PMD, as shown in Fig. 2.3-2. Usually, the unit of PMD is ps/km1/2.
Optical fiber Incoming light Outgoing light
In the digital transmission system, the PMD will result in pulse separation and pulse spreading, degrade transmission signal and limit transmission rate of carriers. Compared with other dispersions, the PMD can almost be omitted. But it cannot be totally extinguished, but can be minimized through optical components. The narrower the pulse in the super-speed system is, the greater the PMD influence is.
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When the system works in the fiber working area (for example, the short wavelength area of G.653 fiber or working area with negative dispersion of G.655 fiber) with negative dispersion index, the SPM will result in smaller dispersion limit distance. When the system works in the fiber working area (for example, the long wavelength area of G.652/G.653 fiber or working area with positive dispersion of G.655 fiber) with positive dispersion index, the SPM will result in greater dispersion limit distance.
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The SPM effect occurs in certain distance from the transmitter end. In addition the low-dispersion fiber can also reduce the influence of SPM to the system performance. 2. XPM When two or more optical waves with different frequencies are simultaneously transmitted in the non-linear media, the amplitude modulation of each frequency wave will result in the corresponding change of the fiber refractive index, resulting in non-linear phase modulation of the optical wave with other frequencies, which is called XPM. XPM often occurs along with SPM. XPM will result in a series of non-linear effects, such as signal interference between DWDM system channels and non-linear dual-refraction of the fiber, leading to unstable polarization of the fiber transmission. Meanwhile, the XPM will also affect wave shape and spectrum of pulse. Adding dispersion properly can reduce the XPM influence. 3. FWM FWM refers to a physical process of energy exchange between multiple optical carriers caused by non-linear effect of the fiber, when multiple frequencies of optical carriers with high power are simultaneously transmitted in the fiber. FWM results in optical signal energy attenuation in multiplexing channels and channel crosstalk. As shown in Fig. 2.3-4, a new optical wave appears on another wavelength, due to FWM.
Incoming light Outgoing light
The generation of FWM is related to the fiber dispersion. For zero dispersion, the mixing efficiency is the highest. Along with dispersion increase, the mixing
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SRS effect is widely applied in the fiber communication, for example, making distributed Raman amplifier based on Raman gain, to provide distributed broadband amplifying for optical signals. The DRA board of ZTE DWDM device implements the optical amplifying function through the SRS effect. On the other hand, SRS introduces in negative influence to the communication system. In the DWDM system, light in the short-wavelength channel will serve as pump light to transfer energy to the long-wavelength channel, resulting in Raman crosstalk between channels. 5. SBS SBS belongs to the stimulated non-elastic scattering process caused by non-linear effect. It comes of mutual action and energy exchange between photon and acoustic phonon (crystal vibration status). SRS effect can be used to make fiber Brillouin laser and amplifier. On the other hand, SBS will result in unstable signal light source and crosstalk between reverse transmission channels. However, along with increase of system transmission rate, the SBS peak gain obviously reduces. So, SBS will not greatly affect the high-speed fiber transmission system.
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The attenuation of the full-wave fiber becomes even at the band of 1310 nm~ 1600 nm. As internal OH- ions are already eliminated, no water peak attenuation will occur even when the fiber is exposed to hydrogen gas and the long-term attenuation is reliable. Full-wave optical fiber can provide a complete transmission band from 1280 nm to 1625 nm. The available wavelength range is about 1.5 times of the wavelength range of ordinary fibers. 3. Real-wave fiber Real-wave fiber is a kind of non-zero dispersion shifted single-mode fiber (G.655 fiber) widely used at present. Its fiber characteristics are similar to those of G.655 fiber. Its zero dispersion point is in short-wavelength area below 1530 nm. In 1549 nm ~ 1561 nm band, the dispersion index is 2.0 ps/nmkm ~ 3.0 ps/nmkm. It has small dispersion slope and dispersion coefficient, capable of tolerating higher non-linear effect. It is applicable to large-capacity optical transmission system to reduce network construction cost.
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TX1TXn, the optical transmitters of all the multiplexing channels, respectively transmit the optical signals (1, 2 n, with the corresponding frequencies as f1, f2fn) with different nominal wavelengths. Each optical channel bears different service signals, such as standard SDH signal, ATM signal and Ethernet signal. After that, the optical multiplexer combines these signals into one beam of optical wave, which will be output by the OBA to the fiber for transmission. 2. Optical receiver end After the line fiber goes through amplifying of OPA, the optical channel signals are de-multiplexed by the optical de-multiplexer and then respectively input to the corresponding multiplexing channel optical receivers, RX1RXn. 3. Optical regenerating amplifier end Located in the middle of the optical transmission section, it uses OLA to amplify the optical signals. 4. Optical monitoring channel In the DWDM system shown in Fig. 3.1-1, an independent wavelength (1510 nm) is used as the optical monitoring channel for transmitting optical monitoring signals. The optical monitoring signals are used to bear NE management and monitoring information of the DWDM system, for the sake of effectively management of network management system over the DWDM system. 5. Network management system This module is omitted in Fig. 3.1-1. The DWDM NMS should be capable of managing optical amplifying units (such as OBA, OLA and OPA), wavelength division multiplexer, Optical Transponder Unit (OTU) and channel performance supervision on one platform. It can manage the device in terms of performance, fault, configuration and security. The information in the NMS is borne by the monitoring signals in the optical monitoring channel.
LD is coherence light source, with large in-fiber power, small spectral line width and high modulation rate. It is applicable to the long-distance high-speed system. The LED is non-coherence light source, with small in-fiber power, large spectral line width and low modulation rate. It is applicable to short-distance low-speed system. The light source of the DWDM system adopts the semi-conductor laser. 2. 1) Features of DWDM system light source Providing standard and stable wavelength The DWDM system has very strict requirements for the working wavelength of each multiplexing channel. Wavelength drift will cause unstable and unreliable operation of the system. The common wavelength stabilization measures are temperature feedback control method and wavelength feedback control method. 2) Providing rather large dispersion tolerance Fiber transmission may be limited by system loss and dispersion. Along with increased transmission rate, the dispersion influence is larger. Here, dispersion limit can be solved through using optical fibers/cables with small dispersion coefficient or semi-conductor laser with small spectral width. After the optical cables are laid, minimizing spectral width of light source devices is an effective measure for solving dispersion limit. 3. Modulation modes of DWDM system laser At present, there are two methods of light source intensity modulation: Direct modulation and indirect modulation (that is, external modulation). 1) Direct modulation Direct modulation means directly controlling the working current of semi-conductor laser through electrical pulse code stream, and thus making it generate the optical pulse stream corresponding to the electrical signal pulse. For example, when the electrical pulse signal is "1", the working current of the laser is greater than its current threshold, therefore it generates an optical pulse. When the electrical pulse signal is "0", the working current of the laser is smaller than its current threshold, therefore it does not generate optical pulse.
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The direct modulation mode is simple, with low loss and low cost. But, the super-speed change of working current of the laser will make modulation chirp easily. And chirp will limit transmission rate and distance of the system. The direct modulation mode is often used in the transmission system composed of G.652 fiber, with transmission shorter than 100 km and rate lower than 2.5 Gbit/s. 2) Indirect modulation (external modulation) The external modulation mode refers to indirectly control (modulate) the continuous light generated by the laser which is in the continuous light emitting status, and thus obtaining optical pulse stream. Therefore, in external modulation case, the laser nit generates stable high-power laser, and the external modulator will modulate it in low chirp, to obtain the maximum dispersion value much greater than that in the case of direct modulation.It is applicable to the long-distance transmission system at rate over 2.5 Gbit/s. At present, the external modulators often used are electrical absorption modulator (EA) and waveguide Mach-Zehnder (MZ) modulator. z EA modulator It uses absorber controlled by electrical pulse signal to absorb or not absorb the optical wave transmitted by the continuous wave semi-conductor laser (CW), and thus making optical pulse stream under indirect control of electrical pulse signal stream. The EA light source features small size, high integration, low driving power and low power consumption. The maximum dispersion can reach 12 000 ps/nm. z Waveguide M-Z modulator At the input end, the CW is in continuous wave working status. The optical wave emitted by it is divided by the optical de-multiplexer into two equal signal channels, which will respectively enter two optical tributaries of the modulator. Under control of electrical pulse stream, it performs phase modulation to the optical signals. At the output end, two optical tributaries are combined by the optical multiplexer. When the signal phases in two optical tributaries are reverse to each other, the optical multiplexer has no optical signal output; when the
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3.3.2 Introduction to OM
Four types of common OMs are briefly introduced below, as well as OM types often used in the DWDM systems with different wavelength numbers. 1. 1) Brief introduction to common OMs Grating type of OM
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It has sound wavelength selection performance, capable of narrowing wavelength interval to about 0.5 nm. However, the grating features precise manufacture requirements and is not suitable for large-batch manufacture. It is often used in research in the laboratory. 2) Dielectric thin film type of OM It is composed of Thin Film Filter (TFF). TFF consists of dozens layers of dielectric films with different materials, different refractive indexes and different thickness values. One layer features high refractive index and the other layer features low refractive index, therefore TFF emerges a passband within certain wavelength range while a stopband within other wavelength ranges, and thus forming the desired filtering performance. The working principle is shown in Fig. 3.3-2.
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Principle of AWG OM
Due to compact structure and low insertion loss, it is the best scheme for optical wave multiplexing/de-multiplexing in the optical transport network. 4) Coupling type of OM It is a kind of surface interactive device with two or more fibers which are closed to each other and are properly melted. It is used for OM, with the working principle shown in Fig. 3.3-4.
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It can only implement multiplexing function, with low cost and large insertion loss. 2. Multiplexer/de-multiplexer of DWDM system The relationship between the system with different wavelengths and the corresponding optical wavelength division multiplexers is shown in Table 3.3-1.
Table 3.3-1 Relationship between DWDM Systems and Corresponding Optical Wavelength Division Multiplexers OM Below 32 wavelengths 40 wavelengths Above 80 wavelengths Below 32 wavelengths OD 40 wavelengths Above 80 wavelengths
Type of Optical Wavelength Division Multiplexer Coupling type Array waveguide type Dielectric thin film type Grating type
Different types of wavelength division multiplexers have different insertion loss values. Smaller insertion loss value is preferable. 3. Isolation It represents the isolation distance between multiplexing optical channels in the optical devices. The higher the channel isolation is, the better is the frequency selection performance of the wavelength division multiplexer. Consequently, the crosstalk suppression ratio becomes higher and the mutual interference between multiplexing optical channels becomes lower. It is meaningful only for the wavelength sensitive devices (TFF type and AWG type devices). It is not meaningful for the coupling devices. 4. Reflection coefficient At the input end of the wavelength division multiplexer, the ratio between the reflection optical power and incidence optical power is the reflection coefficient. Smaller coefficient is preferable. 5. Polarization Dependent Loss (PDL) PDL means the maximum change value of the insertion loss caused by the change of optical wave polarization status. Light is the electromagnetic wave with extremely high frequency, therefore, there is the problem of wave vibration direction (polarization). For the optical signals of the multiplexing channels input to the wavelength division multiplexer, their polarization statuses will not be totally consistent. And the same wavelength division multiplexer has different attenuation effects to the optical waves in different polarization statuses. Smaller PDL value is preferable. 6. Temperature coefficient It means the offset of central working frequency of the multiplexing channel caused by ambient temperature change. Smaller temperature coefficient of the wavelength division multiplexer is preferable. Smaller coefficient means more stable central working frequency of the multiplexing channels.
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Bandwidth It is a parameter of the wavelength sensitive devices (TFF type and AWG type devices). It is not meaningful for the coupling type of wavelength division multiplexer. Bandwidth is divided into channel bandwidth @-0.5 dB and channel bandwidth @-20 dB.
Channel width @ -0.5 dB It refers to the corresponding change value of the working wavelength when the OD insertion loss decreases by 0.5 dB. It describes the bandpass feature of the OD. Sound bandpass feature curve should be flat and wide. Greater bandpass value is preferable.
Channel width @ -20 dB It refers to the corresponding change value of the working wavelength when the OD insertion loss decreases by 20 dB. It describes the stopband feature of the OD. The stopband feature curve should be sharp. Smaller bandwidth value is preferable.
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Light source with rather large dispersion tolerance Increase of current-free relay distance in the DWDM system requires greater dispersion tolerance distance of the light source, for the sake of solving non-linear effect of the fiber.
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Functioning as regenerator When the transponder serves as the regenerator, it has the data regeneration function, which is an optional function of the OTU.
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Usually, the working range of the DWDM system is represented through frequency. 2) Channel interval Channel interval means the nominal frequency difference between two adjacent multiplexing channels, covering even channel interval and uneven channel interval. At present, even channel interval is used mostly. The minimum channel interval of the DWDM system is integer times of 50 GHz. z When the multiplexing channels are 8 wavelengths, the channel interval is 200 GHz. z When the multiplexing channels are 16/32/40 wavelengths, the channel interval is 100 GHz. z When the multiplexing channels are above 80 wavelengths, the channel interval is 50 GHz. Smaller channel interval requires higher resolution of the OD and means more multiplexing channels. 3) Nominal central frequency It refers to the central wavelength (frequency) corresponding to each multiplexing channel in the DWDM system. For example, when the multiplexing channels are 16/32/40 wavelengths, the central frequency of wavelength 1 is 192.1 THz, the channel interval is 100 GHz and frequency increases in ascending order.
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Central frequency offset It is also called frequency offset. It refers to the offset between the actual working central frequency of the multiplexing optical channel and nominal central frequency. According to the national standards, the system with frequency interval as 100 GHz, the maximum central frequency offset is 20 GHz (about 0.16 nm) when the rate is below 2.5 Gbit/s or 12.5 GHz when the rate is 10 Gbit/s. For the system with frequency interval as 50 GHz, the maximum central frequency offset is 5 GHz. The maximum central frequency offset refers to the value which can be met when the designed life cycle of the system expires, with temperature, humidity and other factors taken into consideration.
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Dispersion tolerance Dispersion reflects the spreading of the optical pulse in the transmission in the fiber. The pulse spreading will result in decreased distinguish ratio of signal pulse at the receiving end, that is, levels of bit "1" and bit "0" are similar, leading to mistaken judgment of the receiver. To avoid bit error, it is required to take proper measures to compensate the optical pulse spreading in fiber transmission process. The pulse spreading will be more and more serious along with increased transmission distance. The requirements of DWDM system for the fiber chroma dispersion coefficient are basically those of a single multiplexing channel rate signal for fiber chroma dispersion coefficient. In addition, since the current-free relay distance of the DWDM system is much greater than that of a single SDH system, the dispersion tolerance distance of the system light source must be prolonged.
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Receiver sensitivity The receiver sensitivity refers to the minimum value of the average receiving optical power on the OTU input port, when input signals are located in the 1550 nm window and the BER reaches 10-12.
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Overloaded optical power The overloaded optical power refers to the maximum value of the average receiving optical power on the OTU input port, when input signals are located in the 1550 nm window and the BER reaches 10-12.
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OTU Applications
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The Er3+ ion free from stimulation is at the lowest energy level. When the pump light is shot in, the Er3+ ion absorbs energy of the pump light and transits to the higher energy level. At the higher energy level, the Er3+ ions are in instable status, therefore they continuously converge to metastable energy level in non-radiant transition format, and thus implementing population inversion distribution. When the optical signals with 1550 nm wavelength pass this segment of EDF, the metastable particles transit to the ground status in stimulated emission format, and photons which are the same as those in the incoming signal light are generated, and thus implementing amplifying of optical signals. 2. Composition The EDFA consists of EDF, bump light source, coupler and isolator, as shown in Fig. 3.5-3.
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The coupler is used to combine signal light with pump light. The isolator is used to suppress light reflection, to ensure stable working of the optical amplifier. The pump laser generates pump light source. 3. 1) Key performance indices Gain (G) It is the ratio between output optical signal power and input optical signal power. Greater gain means more powerful amplifying capability. 2) Noise Fig. (NF) It is the ratio between SNR at EDFA input end and SNR at output end. EDFA noise comes from many factors, such as signal shot noise, internal reflection noise and Amplified Spontaneous Emission (ASE) noise. But the major source of EDFA noise is ASE noise. & Note: ASE means the emission noise caused by such own factors as unbalance between EDFA optical transmitting area and absorption area, different population inversion degrees (quantity of ions in stable energy level E2 and the quantity of ions in ground energy level E1 are different), EDFA gain and EDFA working status. Since the EDFA can amplify both optical signals and noise, NF is used. NF value is closely related to the ASE noise of the EDFA. It greatly affects the system performance, especially the OSNR of the whole system. Smaller NF is preferable, for example, below 5.0 dB.
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Bandwidth The working wavelength range of the DWDM system covers C band and L band. The optical amplifier needs to amplify all the multiplexing channel signals of the system, so its bandwidth should be wide enough.
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Total input/output power range It is the optical power range at input/output end of the EDFA. In the WDM system application, one EDFA is responsible for amplifying all the multiplexing optical channel signals in the system. Therefore, its input/output optical power range should be large enough, especially for the WDM system with enormous multiplexing channels. On the other hand, to ensure EDFA gain flatness and low noise performance, the DEFA should work in small signal working range. In other words, the input/output power range of the EDFA cannot be too large. More importantly, to avoid fiber non-linear effect, the EDFA output power cannot too large. To avoid fiber non-linear effect, the optical power of a signal channel cannot be too large. It is required to determine the proper power according to signal rate and transmission fiber type.
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Polarization Dependent Gain (PDG) Since the EDFA generates different gains for the optical waves in different polarization statuses. So, we call the maximum change value of the EDFA gain caused by polarization status change of the optical wave as PDG. Smaller value is preferable.
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Pump light leakage Although optical isolators are set at input and output ends of the EDFA, a few pump light leakage occurs. Smaller leakage is preferable. Pump light leakage means the ratio between pump light leakage power and input/output pump light power.
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Input/output optical reflectance It is the ratio between optical power at the EDFA input/output end and reflection optical power. Greater value is preferable.
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Importance of EDFA for DWDM system To ensure the transmission quality of DWDM system, the EDFA used in the DWDM system must have sufficient bandwidth, flat gain, low NF and high output power. Proper gain flatness is especially important, which is special requirement of DWDM system for EDFA.
3.5.1.2 EDFA Classifications Depending on locations of EDFA in the DWDM system and pump source types, two EDFA classification modes are introduced below. 1. By location By locations in the optical transport network, the EDFA is divided into Booster Amplifier (BA), Line Amplifier (LA) and Pre-Amplifier (PA). 1) BA: It is located behind the OTM or transmitting light source of relay device, and in the front of the relay segment. It is used to boot the transmitting power for the sake of extending transmission distance. 2) LA: It is located in the middle of the relay segment. It is used to directly insert the EDFA into the fiber transmission link for amplifying signals. A relay segment can be equipped with multiple LAs as required. 3) PA: It is located at the relay segment end and ahead of the optical receiving device. It is used to pre-amplify the small signals going through line attenuation, to boost the power of optical signals entering the receiver and meet the sensitivity requirements of the receiver.
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Relay segment OTM BA LA LA PA OTM
Fig. 3.5-4
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By pump source At present, the pump sources often used cover 980 nm and 1480 nm, because these two types of pump sources have high pump efficiency. The 980 nm pump light source has lower NF; the 1480 nm one has higher NF, so a larger output power is obtainable (about 3 dB higher than that of the 980 nm pump light source). In the actual LA applications, most 8-channel WDM system uses the 980 nm pump source, because the WDM system of G.652 fiber mostly features dispersion limit other than loss limit. If such WDM system uses the 1480 nm pump source, the system power attenuation will increase, which is unnecessary for boosting EDFA output power. However, the above-16-channel WDM system uses the 1480 nm pump source, because enormous tributaries dwindle the available power range and the pump source with higher power is necessary. The two-level pump can also be used, for the sake of both NF improvement and output power increase.
3.5.1.3 Problems of EDFA to Be Solved When solving the problems of fiber transmission system, the EDFA also introduces in some new problems. 1. Non-linear effect EDFA amplifies the optical power through increasing the optical power shot into the fiber, but optical power increase should be proper. When the optical power is increased to certain degree, fiber non-linear effect will occur. Therefore, in the usage of fiber amplifier, it is required to control the value of the in-fiber optical power in a single channel.
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Bandwidth Bandwidth refers to the range of the optical wavelength which can be amplified flatly. The working wavelength range of the EDFA in C band is 1530 nm ~ 1561 nm, and the one of the EDFA in L band is 1565 nm ~ 1625 nm. The gain flatness filter is used inside the EDFA, so that the EDFA has almost the same gain for each multiplexing optical channel signal within the corresponding wavelength range. The gain fluctuation should be limited within the allowed rage, for example, 1 dB. Therefore, the bandwidth is closely related to the gain flatness.
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Optical surge When the optical line is normal, the erbium ions stimulated by the pump light are carried off by the signal light, and thus implementing amplifying of signal light. If the input light is interrupted, the metastable erbium ions still converge continuously, so energy transient will occur, leading to optical surge. The way of solving optical surge is to implement Automatic Power Reduction (APR) or Automatic Power ShutDown (APSD) function in the EDFA. In other words, the EDFA will automatically reduce power or shut down power upon no input light, and thus suppressing surge.
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Dispersion Along with transmission distance increase, the total dispersion increases correspondingly. Therefore, the current-free relay segment in the WDM system cannot be prolonged limitlessly. We can prolong the current-free relay distance of the multiplexing section through dispersion compensation measures.
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Features Based on dozens of kilometers of line fibers, it implements distributed amplifying, with low NF and effectively improve system SNR.
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With the same SNR, it can reduce the optical power at the transmitting end and minimize the non-linear effect.
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It can generate gain for all the wavelengths, serving as full-band amplifier (required to be divided into C band amplifier and L band amplifier).
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It has flat gain. The gain wavelength range depends on the pump wavelength. Since the noise of Raman fiber amplifier reduces along with fiber distance increase, the fiber should be long enough. There is no requirement for the fiber type.
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The pump conversion efficiency is low, so the high-power pump laser source is required.
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The amplifying gain is low, so it needs to work with the EDFA to form combined amplifier, for the sake of compensation of line attenuation and node insertion loss.
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Application If the DWDM system above 40 G only uses EDFA for amplifying, spontaneous emission will be accumulated, restricting overall system performance. Compared with EDFA, the SRA has such advantages as low noise, introducing in no additional loss upon removal of pump light, and no transient effect. Therefore, the combination of EDFA and SRA can form the important optical amplifying technology for the transmission system above 40 G or of super great distance.
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For example, ZTE DWDM system uses an independent wavelength (1510 nm) and relays on no service channel, to ensure that no active amplifying is required for the long distance transmission and reliability is improved, and thus eventually implementing monitoring over the NE devices of the system.
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The OSC transmission is bidirectional. Bidirectional transmission ensures the supervision information can be received by the line terminal when one fiber is broken.
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OSC transmission segment can be dropped on each optical amplifier relay station and DWDM system office station and added with new supervision signals.
OTUR OD2
osc
1 2
OPA
OD
OTUR
OSC information Line fiber OM: Optical multiplexer OD: Optical de-multiplexer
OSC information Internal fiber OBA and OPA: Optical amplifiers OTUT and OTUR: Optical transponders
Fig. 3.6-1
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Dropping and adding of OSC information As shown in the above diagram, to ensure that the supervision information transmitted on the OSC can be dropped or added on each optical amplifier relay station and DWDM system office station without influence from optical amplifier, at the transmitting end, it is required to use a 2-wavelength OM OM2 behind the OBA to add the OSC information into the main channel; at the receiving end, it is required to use a 2-wavelength OD OD2 ahead of the OPA to drop the OSC information.
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Working wavelength of OSC For the DWDM system working with LA, an additional OSC is required, which should be able to perform adding/dropping with low enough BER in each optical relay/amplifier.
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According to ITU-T recommendation, a specific wavelength can be used as the OSC. Such wavelength can be 1,310 nm, 1,480 nm or 1,510 nm when out of service information transmission band. The 1,510 nm is preferable. Since this channel is out of the gain bandwidth of the EDFA (also called external OSC), the supervision signals must be drop (dropping optical channel) ahead of EDFA and added (adding optical channel) behind the EDFA. As shown in Fig. 3.6-1, OSC is added behind OBA and dropped ahead of OPA. 3. Transmission rate of OSC In the actual DWDM system, most of the information really requiring supervision involves EDFA working status, so the supervision information is not huge. In addition, to ensure normal operation of the supervision channel upon optical amplifier fault, the receiving sensitivity should be high. As a result, the supervision channel signals without amplifying of optical amplifier can cover the maximum transmission distance of the service major signals. Therefore, the working rate of the OSC is set to 2 Mbit/s. At present, since the technology ceaselessly develops, OSC rate improves as well. For example, ZTE DWDM can provide supervision rate of 10 Mbit/s or 100 Mbit/s. 4. Frame structure of OSC information For the supervision system at working rate of 2 Mbit/s, thirty-two 64 kbit/s bytes are used to bear supervision information, which is transmitted and exchanged in PCM32 frame format. For the system at supervision rate of 10 Mbit/s or 100 Mbit/s, for example, ZTE DWDM, the supervision channel uses 10/100 M Ethernet technology to encapsulate data in IP packet format and transmits and exchanges them in Ethernet data frame. 5. Line coding The 2 Mbit/s OSC uses Code Mark Inversion (CMI) as the line code type. The 10/100 Mbit/s OSC uses 4B/5B code.
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OSC protection Upon the OSC bidirectional transmission interruption caused by totally break-off of the fiber, the NE management system cannot obtain the supervision information normally. At this time, the backup route (for example, Data Communication Network (DCN)) should be used for transmitting supervision information, for the sake of OSC protection.
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OTM OLA
1 2 3 n
OTS OMS OTS OM OBA OLA OPA OD
1 2 3 n
RX2 RX3
TXn
...
Optical transponder
...
Optical transponder
RXn
OAC
OCH
OAC
Fig. 4.1-1
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Hierarchy Meaning of DWDM System Function Multiplexing optical channel signals and de-multiplexing multiplexed optical channel signals Transmitting optical signals on all kinds of fibers Supporting OAC to convert customer signals into optical signals in accordance with G.692 recommendation for transmission Accessing customer signals
Location Between OTMs Between OTM and OLA, and between OLAs At the line side of optical
OCH
OAC
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1 2 3 n
O M U O U
1 2
D 3
...
Optical transponder Optical transponder
...
n
Optical transponder
O P
Optical transponder
Optical transponder
O D U
O M U
Optical transponder
Protection channel
Fig. 4.2-1
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1 +1 protection of OMS The 1+1 protection of OMS is in segment-by-segment 1+1 protection mode, as shown in Fig. 4.2-2.
OTU OTU OTU OTU OTU OTU OTU OTU
1 2 3 n 1 2 3 1
O M D
OBA
OPA
O D U
2 3 n 1
O D D
OPA
OBA
O M U
2 3
Fig. 4.2-2
1 +1 Protection of OMS
When the OP board supervises the major optical channel, changeover is implemented through optical switch inside the board when changeover condition is met.
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A Ring Networking
The optical connection between Node A and Node B is shown in Fig. 4.2-4.
O M U OTU O P OTU
Working channel
O D U O M U OTU O P OTU
O D U
O M U O D U
Protection channe
O D U O M U
Site A
Site B
Fig. 4.2-4
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In the ring network, the 1+1 protection of OMS protects the multiplexed signals. When the fiber is broken off, the two nodes close to the broken points implement "loop-back" function, and thus protecting all the services. It is similar to the protection mode shown in Fig. 4.2-2.
4.3 1: N Protection
4.3.1 Working Principle
In the 1:N protection changeover, multiplex working lines share one protection line. N working lines are bridged to the protection line at both ends. The protection function monitors and judges the received signal status, and changes over the services on this working line to the protection line, upon deterioration or failure of service signals on the working line. This mode is called "transmitting-receiving changeover". Its working principle is shown in Fig. 4.3-1.
Service can be transmitted Protection line Transmitting of working line 1 Transmitting of working line 2 Protection line Receiving of working line 1 Receiving of working line 2
This service is discarded. Protection line Transmitting of working line 1 Transmitting of working line 2 Protection line Receiving of working line 1 Receiving of working line 2
Changeover protocol
Fig. 4.3-1
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OTU
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If any channel in the N channels of services becomes faulty, once the receiving end detects the faulty service, it notifies the SWE boards at the transmitting end and receiving end through protocols, and then the receiving/transmitting end changes this channel of service to the port N + 1 to protect the service. When multiple channels of services are faulty at the same time, the service in high priority will take priority of protection. The protection priority is set in the NM.
T11
T31
Fig. 4.4-1
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Implementation mode of OPCS board The ZXMP M800, ZTE DWDM, implements bidirectional channel shared protection through the Optical Channel Shared Protection (OPCS) board. Besides channel protection of the ring network, the OPCS board also controls the adding status of adding protection wavelength through connecting with the
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21(BA) B 21(BA)
22(EF)
21(FE)
21(FE)
Fig. 4.4-2
We assume that a pair of bidirectional services between Site A and Site B need protection. First of all, we install the OPCS board at Sites A and B and connect fibers. In the configuration, the required service wavelength is differential-wavelength transmission. Service from A to B is borne by 21 (external ring), and service from B to A is borne by 22 (internal ring). In this way, the working wavelength formed by 21 and 22 can be repeatedly used between other nodes in the ring network, and 21 of internal ring serves as the protection wavelength of external ring 21. Similarly, 22 wavelength serves as the protection wavelength of internal ring 22, and thus implementing shared protection of multiple services in the ring network. The wavelength allocation can be flexibly adjusted. But service bidirectional feature and differential-wavelength of working wavelengths must be guaranteed. For the convenience of project debugging and maintenance, the default principle is allocating wavelengths by adjacent odd and even wavelengths. 3. 1) Application features It is used for loop protection.
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Service protection is based on channels. Changeover depends on quality of the signals in a channel leaving the loop.
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In the loop, the transport directions of node receiving information and node transmitting information are two reverse directions. The resource utilization ratio is high.
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In the changeover, changeover is implemented in adding channel node and dropping channel node of the service.
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C D E
17
F
Fig. 4.5-1
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Implementation mode of OPMS board The ZXMP M800, ZTE DWDM, implements bidirectional OMS shared protection through the Optical MS Shared Protection (OPMS) board. Fig. 4.5-2 shows a networking example.
21(BA) B 21(BA)
43(EF)
21(FE)
21(FE)
Fig. 4.5-2
We assume that a pair of bidirectional services between Site A and Site B need protection. First of all, we install the OPMS board at Sites A and B and connect fibers. In the configuration, the service wavelengths are in differential-wavelength transmission mode, and both working bands and protection bands of internal/external ring are distributed symmetrically. For example, 16
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wavelengths (192.1 THz ~ 193.8 THz) of the external ring serve as working wavelengths of external ring, and 16 wavelengths (194.3 THz ~ 196.0 THz) of the internal ring serve as working wavelengths of internal ring. We assume that service from A to B is borne by 21 (external ring), and service from B to A is borne by 43 (internal ring). In this way, the working wavelength formed by 21 and 43 can be repeatedly used between other nodes in the ring network, and 21 of internal ring serves as the protection wavelength of external ring 21. Similarly, 43 wavelength of external ring serves as the protection wavelength of internal ring 43, and thus implementing shared protection of multiple services in the ring network. 3. 1) 2) Application features It is used for loop protection. Service protection is based on MS. Changeover depends on quality of the MS signals between adjacent nodes. 3) In the loop, the transport directions of node receiving information and node transmitting information are two reverse directions. The resource utilization ratio is high. 4) 5) Upon fault, changeover is executed between adjacent nodes of faulty span. In the configuration of MS shared protection, at least one Optical MS Shared Protection board (with preventing resonance switch) is configured in the loop, to avoid self-stimulation of the loop.
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Appendix A Abbreviations
Abbreviation AFR AFEC AGENT AIS APR APS APSD APSF ASE AWG BER BLSR BSHR CDR CMI CODEC CPU CRC DBMS DCC DCF DCG DCN DCM DCF DDI DFB-LD DSF DGD DTMF DWDM DXC EAM ECC EDFA EFEC Absolute Frequency Reference Advanced FEC Alarm Indication Signal Automatic Power Reduction Automatic Protection Switching Automatic Power Shutdown Automatic Protection Switching for Fast Ethernet Amplified Spontaneous Emission Array Waveguide Grating Bit Error Ratio Bidirectional Line Switching Ring Bidirectional Self-Healing Ring Clock and Data Recovery Code Mark Inversion Code and Decode Center Process Unit Cyclic Redundancy Check Database Management System Data Communications Channel Dispersion Compensation Fiber Dispersion Compensation Grating Data Communications Network Dispersion Compensation Module Dispersion Compensating Fiber Double Defect Indication Distributed Feedback Laser Diode Dispersion Shifted Fiber Differential Group Delay Dual Tone Multi Frequency Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing Digital Cross-connect Electrical Absorption Modulation Embedded Control Channel Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier Enhanced FEC 73 Full Name
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Abbreviation EX FDI FEC FPDC FWM GbE GUI IP LD LOF LOS MANAGER MDI MCU MOADM MBOTU MQW MSP MST NCP NDSF NE NNI NMCC NRZ NT NZDSF OA OADM OBA Och ODF ODU OGMD OHP OHPF OLA OLT OMU ONU OP OPA Extinction Ratio Forward Defection Indication Forward Error Correction
Full Name
Fiber Passive Dispersion Compensator Four Wave Mixing Gigabits Ethernet Graphical User Interfaces Internet Protocol Laser Diode Loss of Frame Loss of Signal Multiple Document Interface Management and Control Unit Metro Optical Add Drop Multiplexer Equipment Sub-rack backplane for OTU Multiple Quantum Well Multiplex Section Protection Multiplex Section Termination Net Control Processor None Dispersion Shift Fiber Network Element Network Node Interface Network Manage Control Center Non Return to Zero Network Termination Non-Zero Dispersion Shifted Fiber Optical Amplifier Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer Optical Booster Amplifier Optical Channel Optical fiber Distribution Frame Optical Demultiplexer Unit Optical Group Mux/DeMux Board Order wire Overhead Processing Board for Fast Ethernet Optical Line Amplifier Optical Line Termination Optical Multiplexer Unit Optical Network Unit Optical Protection Unit Optical Preamplifier Amplifier 74
Appendix A Abbreviations
Abbreviation OPM OPMSN OPMSS OSC OSCF OSNR OTM OTN OTU OXC PDC PMD PDL RZ SBS SDH SDM SEF SES SFP SLIC SMCC SMT SNMP SPM SRS STM SWE TCP TFF TMN VOA WDM XPM Optical Performance Monitor
Full Name Optical Protect for Mux Section (without preventing resonance switch) Optical Protect for Mux Section (with preventing resonance switch) Optical Supervisory Channel Optical Supervision channel for Fast Ethernet Optical Signal-Noise Ratio Optical Terminal Optical Transport Network Optical Transponder Unit Optical Cross-connect Passive Dispersion Compensator Polarization Mode Dispersion Polarization Dependent Loss Return to Zero Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Synchronous Digital Hierarchy Supervision add/drop multiplexing board Severely Errored Frame Severely Errored Block Second Small Form Factor Pluggable Subscriber Line Interface Circuit Sub-network Management Control Center Surface Mount Simple Network Management Protocol Self-Phase Modulation Stimulated Raman Scattering Synchronous Transfer Mode Electrical Switching Board Transmission Control Protocol Thin Film Filter Telecommunications Management Network Variable Optical Attenuator Wavelength Division Multiplexing Cross-Phase Modulation
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