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OptiX WDM Network

Design Basics

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Objectives
 Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
 Describe WDM network topologies and system applications.
 List the main factors considered in WDM network design.
 Know the working principle of Coherent Technology.
 Outline the basic designing procedure of WDM network.

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Contents
1. WDM Network Overview

2. WDM Network Designing Factors

3. Coherent Technology

4. WDM Network Designing Process Overview

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Contents
1. WDM Network Overview
1.1 WDM Network Element

1.2 Signal Flow

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WDM Network Element
 The OptiX WDM NE can be configured as four types:
 Optical Terminal Multiplexer (OTM)
 Optical Line Amplifier (OLA)
 Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (OADM)
 Fixed optical add or drop multiplexer (FOADM)
 Reconfigurable optical add or drop multiplexer (ROADM)

 Regenerator (REG)

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WDM Network Element(Cont.)

FOADM
60
km dB 16 k m
0 .5
6 .5 dB
16

60 km
16.5 dB
FOADM ROADM OTM
60
16 k m
0 k m dB
.5 6 .5
dB
16

OLA

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Signal Flow
 OTM (40-wavelength):

OTU
M
O
4
M OA
OTU 0
F
SC1 I
U
OTU
M
O
4
D OA
OTU 0

DC
M

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Signal Flow(Cont.)
 OLA:
DC
M

OA

F F

I SC2 I

U U

OA

DC
M

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Signal Flow(Cont.)
 FOADM: (Serial FOADM)

T
OA OA
F F
OADM OADM
(West) (East)
OA OA
I I

O O O O
U T T T T U
U U U U

SC2

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Signal Flow(Cont.)
 FOADM: (Parallel FOADM)

0
4
O M
O
OA 4 OA
M
D M
F 0
F
I
0 I
M
O
U
4O
OA 4
D OA U
MM
0

O O O O
T T T T
U U U U

SC2

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Signal Flow(Cont.)
 ROADM: (WSMD4+WSMD4)

SC2

OA OA
F F
WSMD4 WSMD4
I I
(West) (East)
U U
OA OA

M
M

M
OM OM
M

OD OD

4
0
4
0

4
0
4
0

O O O O O O O O
T T T T T T T T
U U U U U U U U

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Signal Flow(Cont.)
 ROADM: (RDU9+WSM9, 2degrees)
O O O O O O O O
T T T T T T T T
U U U U U U U U
… … …
MR4 MR4 … MR4

F OA RDU9 WSM9 OA F
I I
U OA WSM9 RDU9 OA U

MR4 MR4 MR4


… … … …
O O O O O O O O
T T T T T T T T
U U U U U U U U

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Signal Flow(Cont.)
 ROADM: (RDU9+WSM9, 4 degrees)
DC DC
M
M


FIU

FIU
DC DC
M       M

OSC

DC DC

M M

 
FIU

FIU
DC DC
M    M
  
OSC

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Signal Flow(Cont.)
 REG:

0 OTU
4
O M
O
OA 4 OA
M
D M
OTU 0
F F

0 OTU
I M
O I
4O OA
OA 4
D
MM
0
OTU
U U

SC2

 Note: Signals are regenerated through the regenerating OTU.

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Questions
 How many NE types does WDM system offer?

 Which NE types are configured in your WDM network. What are


the features of them?

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Contents
1. WDM Network Overview

2. WDM Network Designing Factors

3. Coherent Technology

4. WDM Network Designing Process Overview

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Key Factors in WDM Network
Designing

WDM Networking

Key Factors in Networking

Optical Powe Dispersion OSNR DHD JGDJ


Nonlinearity
r DJ

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Basic Concept
 OTS (Optical transmission section)
 OMS (Optical Multiplexing Section)
 OCh (Optical Channel)

OTU OTU
O
M M
O
OA OA OA
M
4 4
D
OTU OTS OTS 0 OTU
0
OMS
OCh

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Contents
2. WDM Network Designing Factors
2.1 Power Budget (Attenuation)

2.2 Dispersion

2.3 OSNR

2.4 Nonlinearity

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Power Budget (Attenuation)
 Fiber loss (dB) = Pout (dBm) - Pin (dBm) = L (km) x a (dB/km)
 a: attenuation coefficient
 G.652 and G.655 fibers at 1550nm window: a = 0.22dB/km

S R

Pout L Pin

Site A Site B

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Dispersion
 Two types of dispersion:
 Chromatic dispersion
 Polarization mode dispersion (PMD)

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Dispersion(Cont.)
 Chromatic dispersion:

Power
Optical pulses

Transmitting Transmitting
L1 (km) L2 (km)

Time

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Dispersion(Cont.)
 Chromatic dispersion (ps/nm) = L (km) x chromatic dispersion
coefficient (ps/nm.km)
 G.652 fiber: dispersion coefficient = 17ps/nm.km
 G.655 fiber: dispersion coefficient = 4.5ps/nm.km
 Chromatic dispersion is of main concern in real engineering.
 Dispersion Compensation Module (DCM) is used to compensate
chromatic dispersion.

OMS

L (km)
Site A Site B

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Dispersion(Cont.)
 Polarization mode dispersion (PMD):

Fast in Fast in
propagation propagation
Direction of
propagation
(fiber)

Slow in
propagation
Slow in
propagation Delay time

Detector
power Signal response

Time

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Dispersion(Cont.)
 DGD (ps) = L(km) x PMD coefficient (ps/km1/2)
 DGD: Differential Group Delay

Signal DGD (@0.5ps/km1/2) (@0.2ps/km1/2) (@0.08ps/km1/2)


Rate Tolerance Transmission Transmission Transmission
(Gb/s) (ps) Distance (km) Distance (km) Distance (km)

2.5 40 6400 40000 250000

10 10 400 2500 15625

40 2.5 25 156.25 976

 Case: 10ps = ( km)1/2 x 0.2ps/km1/2


 For the systems at the rate lower than 10Gb/s, the influence of the PMD is not as
obvious as that of the chromatic dispersion.

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Dispersion(Cont.)
DGD (A~D) = DGDOTS1  DGDOTS 2  DGDOTS 3
2 2 2

OTS1 OTS2 OTS3

Node A Node B Node C Node D

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OSNR
Psignal (mW )
 OSNR (dB) = 10 x log = Psignal (dBm) - Pnoise (dBm)
Pnoise (mW )

 OSNR: Optical Signal to Noise Ratio


 ASE: Amplified Spontaneous Emission
 NF: Noise Figure

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OSNR(Cont.)
OTU OTU
M
M M
D
4 OA OA OA OA OA OA 4
0 OTS 1 OTS 2 OTS 3 OTS 4 OTS 5 0
OTU OTU

Power
(dBm) Psignal

Pnoise (ASE)

L (km)

OSNR
(dB)

L (km)

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Nonlinearity
 SRS: Stimulated Raman Scattering
 SBS: Stimulated Brillouin Scattering
 FWM: Four-Wave Mixing
 SPM: Self-Phase Modulation
 XPM: Cross-Phase Modulation

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Nonlinearity(Cont.)
 How to reduce non-linearity?
 Use high-performance fiber.
 Control the optical power.
 Dispersion management.
 Advanced laser source technology.

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Questions
 What are the key factors in the WDM network designing?

 Why does OSNR decrease in the WDM system?

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Contents
1. WDM Network Overview

2. WDM Network Designing Factors

3. Coherent Technology

4. WDM Network Designing Process Overview

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PDM Modulation Technology
1. Photons in an optical signal move in oscillation directions that are perpendicular to the
transmission direction.

Photon oscillat
ion direction

Signal transmissi
on direction

2. Using a polarization beam splitter, laser light is split into two optical signals carried on two
directions (X and Y directions) perpendicular to each other.
• Optical signals in other oscillation directions are filtered out.
• The X and Y directions (X-pol and Y-pol for short) are the polarizations of light.

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Quadrature Phase Shift Keying
(QPSK) Modulation Technology
28 Gbaud/s
I Signal Inpu Signal Output Phas
Pre- t e
Data coder Cosωt
I Q θ
+ s(t) 0 0 π/4
Optical signal on
the X-pol Σ = I x Cosωt – Q x Sinωt = √2 Cos (ωt + θ) 0 1 3π/4
-
π/2
1 1 5π/4
28 Gbaud/s Pre- Sinωt
Data coder Q 1 0 7π/4

Schematic representation of the mapping


Code st relationship (constellation diagram)

ream Q
01 00
θ
I
I

11 10
Q
A constellation diagram shows the distr
ibution of signal vectors. Because a co
nstellation diagram can fully and clear
ly depict the signal mapping relationsh
QPSK ip for digital modulation, digital modu
lation is also called constellation mod
ulation.

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Coherent Detection
 A coherent light consists of two light waves that satisfy the following coherent
conditions in the area where they meet:
(1) They have the same oscillation direction.
(2) They have the same oscillation frequency.
(3) They have the same phase or maintain a constant phase relationship with each oth
er. Two coherent light waves produce interference within the area where they meet
.

 How to implement coherence detection in 100G transmission?


In the 100G coherent scheme, the receive end uses the laser that has the same cen
ter wavelength (same frequency) as the laser at the transmit end. The receive end
uses the same phase as the transmit end by means of circuit synchronization, form
ing coherent conditions.

 Why coherent detection is used?


Coherent conditions facilitate restoration of signals that experience phase modul
ation.

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FEC Technology
 FEC technology
 Early FEC schemes use the hard-decision method, in which the FE
C decoder determines the value of a received binary sequence as
0 or 1. The defect of hard-decision is that the bit error stati
stics of channels in the received signals are not considered.
 Driven by the industrial applications of the 100G coherent PDM-
QPSK technology and rapid development of the integrated circuit
(IC) technology, the third-generation FEC based on software dec
ision was introduced. The soft-decision codes yield a coding ga
in 2 dB higher than the hard-decision codes.

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Working Principle of 100G Coherent
ePDM-QPSK
PDM-QPSK transmitter Tx Rx Coherent receiver

LH transmission (fiber) 7
3 4
1 6
2 5

1. The polarization beam splitter splits the laser light into two polarizations (X-pol and
Y-pol)Photon
that are perpendicular to each other.
polarizations
Split
Polarization signal
Optical signal on the X-pol

T ransmission Split
direction Polarization signal
on the X-pol

1. Laser signal (electromagnetic wave) 2. Traverse the polarization 3. Signals on the X-pol and
beam splitter Y-pol after being split

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Working Principle of 100G Coherent
ePDM-QPSK(Cont.)
PDM-QPSK transmitter Tx Rx Coherent receiver

LH transmission (fiber) 7
3 4
1 6
2 5

2. Performs QPSK modulation for the optical signal on the x-pol and that on the y-pol.
The 100G signal
is converted into
four 28 Gbit/s signals after 0011… 01 00
the serial-parallel conversion. 0110… Phase

112 Gbit/s ÷ 4 = 28 Gbit/s π/4 3π/4 5π/4 7π/4


00 01 11 10 11 10
Quadrature mod
ulation after the
Different code streams have Usually, a constellation
0011010011011001… phase is shifted
1110… by 90o different phases. Diagram is used to
(112 Gbit/s) For example, the phase 0 signal demonstrate the QPSK
1101… y-pol is selected for 00, and the π/2 modulation.
phase signal is selected for 01. π = 180o
The modulation technique uses
four phases in total and therefore
is called QPSK modulation.

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Working Principle of 100G Coherent
ePDM-QPSK(Cont.)
PDM-QPSK transmitter Tx Rx Coherent receiver

LH transmission (fiber) 7
3 4
1 6
2 5

3. The polarization beam combiner combines the modulated signal on the X-pol and
that on the Y-pol onto the same fiber.
QPSK-modulated signal
on the X-pol

QPSK-modulated signal
on the Y-pol

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Working Principle of 100G Coherent
ePDM-QPSK(Cont.)
PDM-QPSK transmitter Tx Rx Coherent receiver

LH transmission (fiber) 7
3 4
1 6
2 5

4. At the receive end, the received signal light is divided into two. One is allocated to the
x-pol and the other to the y-pol.
Split
polarization signal
on the x-pol
Split
polarization signal
on the y-pol

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Working Principle of 100G Coherent
ePDM-QPSK(Cont.)
PDM-QPSK transmitter Tx Rx Coherent receiver

LH transmission (fiber) 7
3 4
1 6
2 5

5. The coherent receiver converts the optical signals on the x-pol and y-pol into current
or voltage signals. Q demodulation I.

2.
Received optical signal
2 4 5 on the x-pol
3 Integral =I
s(t) = √2 Cos (ωt + θ)

Integral sinωtdt = - Q
1 Cosωt π/2
Sinωt
3.
Local laser optical signal
on the x-pol 5 Processed by the ADC and DSP
4
The LO laser at the receive end uses the PLL
technique to produce an optical signal that has the
same frequency and phase as the laser at the Coherent detection, demodulation
transmit end for interference.
In this manner, signals carried on the x-po
l and y-pol are separated.

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Working Principle of 100G Coherent
ePDM-QPSK(Cont.)
PDM-QPSK transmitter Tx Rx Coherent receiver

LH transmission (fiber) 7
3 4
1 6
2 5

6. The high-precision ADC converts current/voltage signals into 0101…digital code


streams.
Huawei's 100G coherent solution uses high-performance ADC modules, which ensure samp
ling accuracy of 56G Sample/s. Therefore, Huawei's 100G coherent solution supports
transmission of 100G services over a single wavelength (the sampling bandwidth mus
t be >= 2 x signal bandwidth, and the PDM-QPSK modulated signal rate must be 28 Gb
aud/s). However, the DC-DP-QPSK scheme, which is used by the industry, uses dual s
ub-carriers and the ADC module in this scheme can only ensure sampling accuracy of
28G Sample/s.

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Working Principle of 100G Coherent
ePDM-QPSK(Cont.)
PDM-QPSK transmitter Tx Rx Coherent receiver

LH transmission (fiber) 7
3 4
1 6
2 5

7. The DSP high-speed digital processing technique eliminates dispersion, noise, and
nonlinear effects and restores the 100G signals from the transmitter.
In the previous steps, components for PDM-QPSK modulation and coherent detection ar
e purchased components. Components provided by different suppliers of the same l
evel have similar performance. The system performance depends on the DSP in this
step because different equipment manufacturers use their own patented algorithms
.
However, it is difficult to directly describe the performance of various algorithms
using languages or images.
The performance can be measured by means of experiments and testing.

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Questions
 Please describe working principle of 100G Coherent ePDM-
QPSK.

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Contents
1. WDM Network Overview

2. WDM Network Designing Factors

3. Coherent Technology

4. WDM Network Designing Process Overview

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Minimum Information Required for
WDM Design
 System Capacity:
 Initial capacity, final capacity, maximum capacity that can be expanded in the
future without traffic interruption.
 Service requirement:
 2.5Gb/s, 10Gb/s o,40Gb/s or 100Gb/s network
 Traffic matrix and protection mode
 Fiber Type:
 G.652, G.655, G.653
 Fiber length for each span and attenuation principle
 Site types (OTM, FOADM, ROADM, OLA)
 Other requirements and limits
 Note: The information must be provided when we make network design.

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Main Designing Process of WDM
Network
 Input: Fiber specification
Traffic Topology
(Attenuation / dispersion)

Confirm OMS
Site Type and Location
(OTM / FOADM / MUX / DEMUX & DCM
ROADM / OLA / REG)

 Designing: Amplifier
Adjust OLA or
add REG
N
OSNR Ok?
Y

 Output: Network Diagram / Rack layout

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Questions
 Please list the major process of WDM network designing.

 Which information should be collected before networking


designing?

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Summary
 WDM Network Overview
 WDM Network Designing Factors
 Coherent Technology
 WDM Network Designing Process Overview

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Glossary
 ASE: Amplified Spontaneous Emission
 CD: Chromatic Dispersion
 DCM: Dispersion Compensation Module
 DGD: Differential Group Delay
 FOADM: Fixed Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer
 FWM: Four-Wave Mixing
 LU: Line Unit
 NF: Noise Figure
 XPM: Cross-Phase Modulation

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