Abstract: The need for high capacity long haul telecommunication system to carry huge traffic demands in recent times has lead to the use of optic fiber communication system because of its high capacity carrying advantage over wireless systems. But optic fiber signals suffer some signal impairment issues such as nonlinearity which tends to degrade its transmission performance. This paper proposed the use of adaptive optical equalizer to mitigate such impairments. To achieve that, a simulink model of the system was first developed for simulation experiments. Then the impact of out-of-bound nonlinear signal on the three key performance indicators (Q Factor, Bit Error Ratio and Eye Height) studied was evaluated. An adaptive optical equalizer system was them applied to the network and measurements.....
Keywords: Nonlinear optic fiber, self-phase modulation, Kerr effect, refractive index, nonlinearity mitigation
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