Optical Fiber Transmission System Demonstration Over 32 km with Repeaters Data Rate Transparent Up to 2.3 Mbits/s

An initial optical fiber transmission system under development for Army long haul tactical communications is described and evaluated. The system interfaces with the 2.304 Mbit/s data input and output of an Army inventory multiplexer and its orderwire. The system includes transmitter and receiver end terminals, three data rate transparent repeaters, 8 km of graded index optical fiber, plus three optical attenuators and various optical connectors for simulating transmission up to 32 km. Long repeater spacing is achieved using low loss fiber, semiconductor lasers stabilized using optical feedback, and avalanche photodiodes. The system met all of the specified requirements and shows that optical fiber transmission systems have excellent prospects of meeting full military specifications. The versatility of data rate transparent repeaters is achievable even for transmission up to the 64 km distance desired for Army long haul tactical communications.     

Local-Line Single-Mode Optics--Viable Options for Today and Tomorrow

Introducing optical transmission into the local network poses a number of severe economic and technological problems. In this paper, we address these problems assuming a future requirement for a wholly monomode transmission network through long/short haul and local lines. The key considerations therefore involve the economic realization of systems in the 2-140 Mbit/s range. Specific laboratory designs at 2, 8, and 34 Mbits/s employing uni- and bidirectional operation are discussed. Field experience at 1.3 and 1.5 μm using very low cost unidirectional and bidirectional systems is reported, including systems based upon directional couplers, wavelength-duplex, and "piggyback" schemes.     

Digital visions: where the superhighway will lead

The author looks forward to the world of interactivity made possible entirely by digital communications, storage and compression. Digital technology has also expanded the capacity of communications networks, supporting an enormous rate of growth in traffic. Compression has immediate transmission cost benefits for satellite broadcasters, since an analogue PAL transponder covering Europe, say, may cost £4 million per year. A compressed 8 Mbit/s digital service (Filmnet), with four digital channels per transponder, quarters the cost per programme service. For a 2 Mbit/s digital service, costs could fall to around £250 000 per year. As the cost of compression equipment falls, many more services can be delivered direct to homes by satellite or cable systems     

Long-span single-mode fiber transmission characteristics in long wavelength regions

Experimental and analytical results on high-speed optical pulse transmission characteristics for long-span single-mode fibers by using InGaAsP lasers, emitting at 1.1, 1.3, and 1.5 μm, as well as a Ge-APD are reported. At 1.1 μm, 400 Mbit/s transmission experiments were successfully carried out with 20 km repeater spacing. At 1.3 μm, where single-mode fiber dispersions approach zero, error rate characteristics showed that optical power penalties at 100 Mbits/s and 1.2 Gbits/s are negligible even after 30 and 23 km fiber transmission, respectively. It was confirmed that a 1.6 Gbit/s transmission system has 15 km repeater spacing. At 1.5 μm, where silica fibers have ultimately minimum loss, single-mode fiber transmission experiments were carried out at 100 Mbits/s with about 30 km repeater spacing. 400 Mbit/s transmission characteristics using 20 km fibers were also studied. Fiber bandwidths, measured by optical pulse broadenings after 20 km transmission, were 24, 140, and 37 GHz . km . nm at 1.1, 1.3, and 1.5 μm, respectively. Progress in lasers, fibers, and optical delay equalizers at 1.5μm will bring about large-capacity transmission systems having about 150 km repeater spacing. These results reveal fiber dispersion characteristics in the long wavelength region essential to high data rate single-mode fiber transmission system design.     

Optical Fiber Submarine Cable System Development at KDD

An optical fiber submarine cable system using longwavelength and single-mode optical fiber is expected to provide economical long-haul digital transmission. This paper describes the recent research and development on an optical fiber submarine cable system for international communication at the KDD Research and Development Laboratories. An experimental model including cable and repeaters has been designed and manufactured. An experimental repeater of 1.3 μm and 280 Mbits/s was laid at a depth of 1500 m and its fundamental performance was measured in November 1981. Test production of longlength cable having a single continuous length of 30 km became possible in the end of 1981. In early June 1982, the experimental system with a 50 km cable length and two repeaters operating at 300 Mbits/s and 1.3 μm wavelength was laid in a loop into the Sagami Bay from the KDD Ninomiya Submarine Cable Landing Station.     

用声表面波滤波器实现高速光纤传输系统的定时恢复

在高速光纤数字传输系统中,尤其在长中继链路系统中,定时恢复的质量直接影响到传输系统的性能。本文分析了100Mbit/s以上光纤数字传输系统用声表面波滤波器(SAW—F)定时提取电路。首先给出SAW—F的基本原理;然后讨论了SAW—F定时提取实现方案并分析了其抖动积累特性,得出SAW—F定时提取电路的设计依据;最后,根据理论分析的结果,我们设计了一个可用于155.520Mbit/s光纤数字传输系统的SAW—F定时提取电路。分析和实验表明,SAW-F适合用作100Mbit/s以上数字传输系统的定时提取。     

The SL Undersea Lightguide System

A digital optical fiber undersea cable system targeted for transatlantic service in 1988 is now under development at Bell Laboratories. The system uses single-mode fibers to carry data at a bit rate of 280 Mbits/s. Using digital speech compression techniques, a total system capacity of over 35 000 two-way voice channels can be realized. With laser transmitters at 1.3 μm, repeater spacings are expected to exceed 35 km. This paper discusses system parameters, repeaters, fiber and cable design, terminal equipment, and system measurements.     

Fiber-Optic Hybrid Digital Transmission System Experiment

The hybrid digital transmission system, involving 2Rrepeaters between 3R (Reshaping, Retiming and Regenerating)-repeaters, is a suitable system for fiber-optic transmission. The 2R (Reshaping and Regenerating)-repeatered line enables bit rate free transmission, but cannot suppress the accumulated timing jitter in transmitting pulse streams. The trial 1-8 Mbit/s transmission system, using step-index multimode fibers and light emitting diodes, was designed and tested. Multirepeater transmission experiments using optical fiber cable laid in an underground cable tunnel were also performed. The timing jitter accumulations were measured through the multi-repeatered line. Measured timing jitter values were in good agreement with theoretical values. Experimental results show satisfactory feasibility of a fiberoptic hybrid digital transmission system using step-index or gradedindex multimode fibers.     

建设穗深SDH 622Mbit/s光缆传输系统试验网的设想

本文叙述利用穗深地区现有光缆路由(粤港、榕穗光缆路由)建设穗深同步数字系列(SDH)622Mbit/s传输系统环形网的设想。对PDH、SDH设备进行了比较,对线形传输、环形传输方式进行了比较并用曲线图对环形网两点间最长传输距离的经济性进行了估算。列出了设备的主要技术指标。     

A single chip regenerator for transmission systems operating in the range 2-320 Mbits/s

Circuit and operational details of a single chip regenerator, developed by BTRL, are presented. The device is capable of operation over the entire span of currently agreed CCITT hierarchical transmission levels from 2 Mbit/s to 140 Mbits/s. Extension to 280 Mbits/s (320 MBd when coded by 7B8B for optical system applications) is also demonstrated to be possible.     

Design of integrated services digital broadcasting systems usingmultirate optical fiber code-division multiplexing

This paper presents the design of a new type of integrated services digital broadcasting (ISDB) systems which use a multirate optical fiber code-division multiplexing (OF-CDM) technique. The proposed system can efficiently multiplex various kinds of digital signals with multiple bit rates. This is feasibly achieved by using strict optical orthogonal codes of both auto- and cross-correlation constraints being “1” in multirate OF-CDM systems. Moreover, the low-cost design of OF-CDM transmitters is presented, and experimental demonstrations are also carried out. The measured results show that a transmission distance up to 13 km can be feasibly accomplished by using the proposed transmitter design and the external optical injection-locking scheme. It is expected that the proposed ISDB systems can be employed to cost-effectively transmit fast ethernet (125 Mbit/s), FDDI (125 Mbit/s), ATM (155 Mbit/s), and ESCON (200 Mbit/s) protocol data. Their potential applications include Internet services and multimedia broadcasting, such as videoconferencing, video on demand, HDTV, distance learning, and World Wide Web     

20．5km，139．264Mb／s数字彩色电视光纤传输系统

1985年3月20日，在桂林光通信研究所召开的四状群数字光端机和数字彩色电视光纤传输系统鉴定会上，我们采用国产光电器件和多模渐变型宽带光纤，成功地实现了139.264Mb/s数字彩电的20．5km无中继传输：系统性能达到了我国GB1582-79规定的短程线中轴彩电传输标准的指标。     

Millimeter-Wave over Fiber Systems Using Hybrid OCDM/WDM Transmission

In this paper, we propose and simulate 2 OCDM × 4 WDM transmission system for a millimeter-wave (60 GHz) over fiber system to be used in broadband wireless access networks (BWANs). The general system setup is devised and the necessary building blocks identified. Results gathered (for a 155 Mbit/s per user system) under worst case parameter specifications and settings suggest indicate that system performance is severely limited by optical multiuser interference (OMUI) penalties. Several methods to reduce the OMUI limitations are described. These methods should ensure that this transmission scheme possible wavelength-reuse option for future MMW BWANs.     

High-Speed CMI Optical Intraoffice Transmission System: Design and Performance

This paper presents the design and performance features of a successfully developed optical intraoffice transmission system operating at 100-400 Mbits/s. The keys to the commercial realization of this simple, highly reliable, and low-cost system are the employment of the 1.3 μm LED and graded-index multimode fiber. Additionally important, the system makes use of coded mark inversion (CMI) coding to ensure bit sequence independence (BSI) and good error-monitoring capability. Experimental results have clarified the optimum bandwidth of the low-pass filter at the receiver end and the commercially attainable transmission distance. Furthermore, an available system gain of 15.4 dB is demonstrated through 400 Mbit/s transmission experiments. This value enables transmission over distances in excess of 4 km through multimode fiber (900 MHzcdotpkm, 0.8 dB/km).     

Optical Fiber System Trials at 8 Mbits/s and 140 Mbits/s

This paper describes an optical fiber system developed at the British Post Office (BPO) Research Centre, Martlesham Heath, which provides telephone circuits in an 8 Mbit/s junction between the Centre and Ipswich Telephone Exchange via 13 km of BICC cable incorporating Corning fibers. In parallel, a 140 Mbit/s system operating over 8 km of cable has been demonstrated. The systems were constructed in accordance with standard BPO equipment practice and the cables were installed by local area staff in existing ducts.     

High-Capacity PCM Transmission Systems for Toll Networks

High-capacity pulse code modulation (PCM) transmission systems have made little impact despite the availability of suitable technology and the rapid growth of low-capacity systems. It is shown that high-capacity systems can now be introduced into toll telephony networks without short-term economic or compatibility disadvantages and with considerable long-term advantages. A 120Mbits/s coaxial cable system compatible with 12-MHz systems is described in outline.     

Optical Pulse Formats for Fiber Optic Digital Communications

Some new optical pulse formats are investigated for solving practical problems in fiber optic communication systems. These pulse formats provide many advantageous features such as error monitoring capability, abundant timing information, uniform optical power utilization, stable detection of optical input, and so forth. It is shown that a modification of Personick's receiver design theory can be used for comparison of various optical pulse formats. The comparison suggests that for state-of-the-art fiber systems with moderate fiber loss and moderate repeater spacing, where no pulse equalization is required, some new classes of 1 binary digit converted to 2 binary digits (1B2B) or 2B3B formats will permit the realization of very simple and reliable repeaters for fiber optic digital transmission. A future low-loss fiber system may permit a very long repeater spacing with the help of equalization. In this case, application of the correlative signal-processing technique is shown to be very promising. Experimental 6.3 Mbit/s and 100 Mbit/s transmissions demonstrate some advantageous features of these optical pulse formats.     

A versatile ECL multiplexer IC for the Gbit/s range

A new approach to digital multiplexing for communication systems operating in the Gbit/s range is presented. With a single function, monolithically integrated in the established silicon bipolar process, many operations required by the communication system's multiplex equipment are achieved at data rates of up to 3 Gbits/s. The IC is a four-channel multiplexer designed to interface readily with ECL families. Demonstrations of the ICs performance include pseudorandom pattern generation by multiplexing ECL inputs up to 2 Gbits/s, demultiplexing into ECL registers at 1 Gbits/s, clock extraction in a 560 Mbit/s coaxial cable transmission system, and a modulo-n divider technique for timing generation using ECL feedback shift registers for frequencies up to 1.6 GHz. The demonstrations highlight the multiplexer's ability to effectively extend the system speed limit of commercially available ECL from a few hundred Mbits/s to the Gbit/s range. An eight-input multiplexer using three chips in a hybrid assembly is demonstrated multiplexing a static input pattern up to 2.8 Gbits/s.     

Trends in long-wavelength single-mode transmission systems and demonstrations in japan

Long-wavelength single-mode optical fiber transmission technology has recently made rapid progress and is now moving into the commercial operation stage. This paper describes the present state of this technology focusing on the research and development work in the Electrical Communication Laboratories. Based on the results of experiments on optical devices and on preliminary system feasibility analysis, it is shown that, at the present time, an optical wavelength in the 1.3 μm band is desirable for large capacity transmission from the viewpoint of attainable repeater spacings. A field trial plan of a 400 Mbit/s optical transmission system for a long-haul trunk which can compete economically with existing digital transmission systems is outlined.