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Title: Performance Analysis and Impairment Identification in Optical Communication Systems
Committee:
Dr. Stephen Ralph, ECE, Chair , Advisor
Dr. Matthieu Bloch, ECE
Dr. David Anderson, ECE
Dr. Sorin Tibuleac, ECE
Dr. Neil Guerrero Gonzalez, UN Colombia
Abstract: Over the past 50 years, optical communications systems have grown tremendouslyachieving exceptional data rates and reaches. This growth has been enabled through a vari-ety of techniques and technologies such as electronic converters, EDFAs, ROADMs, DSP,WDM, FEC etc. However, as optical networks continue to grow, these techniques andtechnologies will introduce new limitations to all optical communication systems. The ob-jectives of this research revolves around identifying how these techniques and technologieswould affect link performance, manufacturing efficiency, network operation and mainte-nance, and develop methodologies to mitigate or minimize these limitations.
