Pulse Restoration for Long-Distance Transmission of Wavelength Division Multiplexed Signals Using Gain Saturable Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers

In this article, the pulse restoration of different fibers is compared to obtain the optimum fiber. The dispersion-compensated fiber, having a high ability for pulse restoration, is optimized to reduce the self-phase modulation effect by taking the effective core area of the fiber. Then the optimized dispersion-compensated fibers are used in wavelength division multiplex transmission to increase the maximum distance of transmission. Here, 16 channels with a channel spacing of 200 GHz are modulated by an optical LiNbO3 phase modulator with non-return-to-zero format and transmitted over 1,050 km by using dispersion-compensated fibers with an effective core area of 30 pm2 and erbium-doped fiber amplifiers. The adequate quality factor and output power of different channels are observed at 70 km, 350 km, and 1,050 km. As the distance is increased, the quality factor falls.