International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 100 - Number 10 |
Year of Publication: 2014 |
Authors: M. Venkata Sudhakar, Y. Mallikarjuna Reddy, B. Prabhakara Rao |
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M. Venkata Sudhakar, Y. Mallikarjuna Reddy, B. Prabhakara Rao . Effect of Optical Filtering for Error-free Transmission in Optical Networks. International Journal of Computer Applications. 100, 10 ( August 2014), 18-23. DOI=10.5120/17561-8183
This paper presents a new approach to maximize the dispersion-limited distance of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) operating at 1550. 127 nm with 10 Gb/s bit rate. Optical non return to zero (NRZ) signal is generated by using an optical band pass filter (OBPF) along with Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) at the output of VCSEL. A third order super-Gaussian and fourth order Butterworth filters are used as optical filters. The dependence of bit error rate (BER), the eye opening and transmission distance on variations in the optical filter and MZI parameters is investigated. The numerical results signify that with the proposed scheme one can enhance the single mode fiber (SMF) link-length to 127 km in the absence of electrical or optical dispersion compensation methods. Results are compared between the proposed method and transmitters implemented with VCSEL diode.