Document Type
Conference Item
Publication Date
1-1-2008
Abstract
In this paper, duty cycle division multiplexing (DCDM) is proposed as an alternative multiplexing technique. It can be applied in any communication systems, although the focus in this paper is in optical fiber communications. In this paper, we examine 3 channels each operating at 10 Gbps modulation rate over a single optical carrier. The performance comparison is made against 30 Gbps RZ transmitted pulses, time domain multiplexed (TDM). The results show that at a fixed transmission power, DCDM can support longer distance than that with RZ TDM technique. Also, the results show that RZ-TDM pulses require 35.5 dB more SNR to support the same distance as that for DCDM.
Keywords
Multiplexing, duty cycle, optical communication.
Divisions
fac_eng
Publisher
IEEE
Event Title
Telecommunication Technologies 2008 and 2008 2nd Malaysia Conference on Photonics. NCTT-MCP 2008. 6th National Conference on
Event Dates
2008
Event Type
conference