Whats New in

9.0

Createdtoaddresstheneedsofresearchscientists,opticaltelecom engineers, professors and students, OptiSystem satisfies the demandofuserswhoaresearchingforapowerful yeteasytouse opticalcommunicationsystemdesigntool.

WhatsnewinOptiSystem9.0
Themostcomprehensiveopticalcommunicationdesignsuiteforopticalsystemdesign engineersisnowevenbetterwiththereleaseofOptiSystemversion9.0,availablein32bitand TRUE64biteditions. ThelatestversionofOptiSystemfeaturesanumberofnewenhancementstoaddressthedesign ofpassiveopticalnetwork(PON)and100GigabitEthernetarchitecturesusingorthogonal frequencydivisionmultiplexed(OFDM)signalsandopticalcoherentdetection. TheOptiSystemamplifierlibraryisnowextendedtoincludeThuliumdopedfibers,asTmdoped fiberisusedforapplicationsatamplificationbandwidthsnotcoveredbytheEDFAsandYDFAs, like14601530nmand16502050nm.

NewComponentLibraries
Transmitters

DPQPSKandQPSKTransmitters: Newtransmittersencapsulatethecomplexityof
advancedmodulationformatssuchasDPQPSKandQPSK,facilitatingthedesignof fiberopticcommunicationnetworks.Newparameterallowsfortheselectionbetween internalorexternalPRBSsourceforOptical,Spatial,Duobinary,CSRZandDPSK Transmitters.

OFDMModulator/DemodulatorMeasured: OFDMcanbeappliedinopticallong
haultransmissionsystemsandhasmanyadvantagesoverconventionalsinglecarrier modulationformats. ThenewcomponentsallowforthesimulationofOFDMtransmittersandreceivers, supportinguserdefinedsubcarrierindexesanddifferenttypesofmodulationschemes suchasBPSK,QPSK,QAM,etc.AdditionalDACstageincludesdifferenttypesof interpolationandsmoothingfilteroptions.NewgraphdisplayOFDMFFTofsubcarrier indexes.

DigitalModulators/DemodulatorsandLineCoders/Decoders: Newcomponents
allowsforPPMandDPIMmodulation.4B5B,NRZI,AMI,Manchester,4B3Tand8B10B dataencodersarealsoavailable.

BurstModulator/Demodulator: Newmodulatorallowsforselectingbitsinaframe
allowingforanalysisofbursterrorrates.

Document revised: April 14, 2010.

 SignalProcessing ElectricalDownsampler:Newparameterpermitsselectionbetweentimeor
frequencydomaindownsampling.

SerialToParallelConverter1xN/ParallelToSerialConverterNx1:New
componentswitharbitrarynumberofinputs/outputsallowforthesimulationand processingofindividualbitsinsteadofblocks.

OpticalSignalDetectors:Power,PhaseandChirpdetectorsallowsforsignal processingofopticalsignals.

Receivers OpticalCoherentQPSKandDPQPSKReceiver: Encapsulatesthecomplexityof

coherentdetectionofQPSK(singleanddualpolarization)modulationformats, facilitatingthedesignoffiberopticcommunicationnetworksbasedoncoherent detection.NewoptionforAPDincludedwithOpticalDPSKReceiver.

Passives

TransmissionLineComponents:NewCoaxialCable,TransmissionLine,TwoWire Cable,RLCGTransmissionLineandParallelPlateTransmissionLinecomponents. SaturableAbsorber:Saturableabsorbermirrorfordesigningpassivemodelockingof

fiberlasers.

MATLAB

MATLABComponent: CompleteredesignofMATLABcomponentinterfaceallowsfor userdefinedparameternamesandtypes,choiceofsignaltypesforinputandoutput ports,componentresizing,anduserdefinedicon.

Scilab

ScilabComponent: Cosimulationintime,frequencyandspatialdomainwithScilab.
Newflexibleuserdefinedcomponentallowstheusertospecifythenumberofinputs, outputsandparameters.

FreeSpaceOptics

FSOChannel: Anewlargescaleandsmallscalescintillationstatisticalmodelis incorporatedtothecomponent.Predictsdetectionandfadingprobabilitiesassociated withagivenchannel.

Document revised: April 14, 2010.

 OpticalAmplifiers

ThuliumDopedFiber:Newrareearthdopedfiberaddedtotheamplifierslibraryto
covertheamplificationbandwidthsof14601530nmand16502050nm.

OpticalFiberAmplifier:Newfiberamplifiercomponentwhichincludessignal propagationandamplificationthatfacilitatesthesimulationofmodelockedfiberlasers. ErbiumandYtterbiumDopedMultimodeFibers:Newdopedfibersallowsfor analysisoftransversemodesamplificationforuserdefinedrefractiveindex profileandiondistribution.

Visualizers BERTestSet:Newcomponenttogenerate,transmit,andanalyzebiterrorratesof largebitsequences. BinaryandMarySequenceVisualizer:Newvisualizersdisplaybinaryandmary sequencesintimedomain. ConvergenceMonitor:Newcomponentallowsformonitoringpowerlevelsat multiplepointsinthesystem.Itprovidesindependentorsynchronizedmonitoring. ElectricalCarrierAnalyzerandPowerMeter:Newparametersallowsforscalingof powermeasurements. ElectricalConstellationVisualizer:Additionaloptionstoexcludesymbolsfrom symbolerrorratemeasurements. TimeDomainVisualizers:Newretracingoptiontocreateeyediagrams. SParameterExtractor:Newparameterstoenterreferenceresistanceandanalyze
negativefrequencies.

Optimizations
MonteCarlo Yield Estimation: The new yield optimization can be used by designers to
ensuredesignedsystemscantoleraterealworldvariations. Theoptimizationinvolvessimulatingthedesignoveragivennumberoftrialsinwhichtheyield variableshavevaluesthatvaryrandomlyabouttheirnominalvalueswithspecifiedprobability distribution functions. Additional monitoring graphs were also added to single, multiple parameterandgainflatteningfilteroptimizations.

Document revised: April 14, 2010.

 SimulationScheduler

Component Iteration Data Flow (CIDF) MT Scheduler: Depending upon the degree or
parallelization of a given system, the new simulation scheduler allows for the calculation of multiplecomponentsandvisualizerssimultaneouslyusingmultithreading.

GUIandIntegratedDesignEnvironment
ComponentLibrary:Componentlibrarywasreorganizedtofacilitatetheprocessoffinding, selecting,dragginganddroppingofcomponents.

VisualizerProperties:Newapplybuttonallowsforrefreshingofcalculatedresultsfrom visualizerswithoutclosingthepropertiesdialogbox.

AccesstoGraphValues:VBScriptwasextendedsouserscanmanipulateandcustomize
graphvaluesdirectlyfromcomponentscript.

NewapplicationsandValidationProjects
AdditionalapplicationsandvalidationprojectswereaddedtotheOptiSystemsamplefiles, includingbandamplificationusingTmdopedfiberamplifier,Passivemodelockedfiberlaser andmuchmore.

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Document revised: April 14, 2010.