Impact of polarization mode dispersion and nonlinearities on 2-channel DWDM chaotic communication systems

Abstract

This paper has designed 2-channel dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) chaotic system at the frequencies of 193.1 and 193.2 THz, respectively. The optical chaotic signals were produced by using the semiconductor laser that is numerically modeled by employing laser rate equations. These two channels were multiplexed and then propagated through single mode optical fiber (SMF) of 80 km length with dispersion compensating fiber of 16 km length. Erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) was used to compensate the power losses in the SMF. In this paper, we investigated the effects of polarization mode dispersion (PMD) and nonlinearities especially stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) on 2 channel DWDM chaotic communication system by varying the length of the SMF and value of differential group delay (DGD).