Kumaran, K.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT VI
LIST OF FIGURES VII
LIST OF TABLES X
ACRONYMS XI
ABSTRACT XII
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Background and motivation for the thesis 1
1.2 Goal of the thesis 2
1.3 Structure of the thesis 2
2.0 Optical Fibers 3
2.1 Introduction 3
2.2 Brief History of Optical Fiber Communications 4
2.3 Advantages of using optical fiber communication 7
2.4 Single mode fibers 8
2.5Light wave propagation in single mode fibers 11
2.6 Fiber loss 12
2.7 Nonlinear effects in optical fiber 14
2.7. 1Self Phase Modulation (SPM) 15
2.7.2 Cross Phase Modulation (XPM) 10
2.7.3 Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS) 16
2.7.4 Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) 18
2.7.5 Four-Wave Mixing (FWM) 19
2.8 Soliton Pulse Propagation in Optical Fiber 20
3.0 Optical Switching and Multiplexing Techniques
3.1Optical Switching 24
3.2 Multiplexing Techniques 25
3.2.1 Wave Length Division Multiplexing (WDM) 26
3.2.2 Optical Time Division Multiplexing (OTDM) 27
3.2.3 Optical Code Division Multiplexing (OCDM) 30
4.0 OTDM demultiplexing using Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirror
4.1Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirror (NOLM) 31
4.2Modeling of Nonlinear Schrodinger equations 35
4.3Numerical modeling using Split-Step Method. 39
5.0 Simulation and Results 42
5.1Introduction 43
5.2Step size for the simulation 44
5.3Simulation of Signal and Clock Pulse with same phase angle 52
5.4H fleet of the state of polarization between the Signal and Control pulses 56
6.1Major Results 71
6.2 Future works 72
APPENDIX A 73
APPENDIX B 77
APPENDIX C 83
APPENDIX I) 91
REFERENCES 92
