
The next paragraph will explain how chromatic dispersion affects the transmission system. Moreover, PMD and other types of dispersion will impair the performance of telecommunication systems. Group velocity dispersion (GVD) is a property of dispersive media that is most commonly used to determine how the medium affects the duration of light pulses that pass through it. Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD) means that the group velocity dispersions of two orthogonal polarizations in the fiber are different, and a single DCF cannot simultaneously compensate for these two group velocity dispersions(GVD). Modal dispersion has other names such as multimodal distortion, multimodal dispersion, modal distortion, multimodal distortion, etc. Ideally, even a light source of the same wavelength would have modal dispersion. Here, since the propagation speed of the optical signal is different for all modes, the signal will be distorted as it propagates over time. On a fiber of the same length, the time difference between the highest-order mode and the lowest-order mode reaching the endpoint is the pulse broadening generated by this fiber. In the same fiber, the high-order mode takes a long distance to reach the endpoint, and the low-order mode travels a short distance, which means that the high-order mode takes a long time to reach the endpoint, and the low-order mode takes a short time to reach the point. Modal dispersion is a distortion mechanism that occurs in multimode fibers and other waveguides. The concept of modal dispersionĪctually, modal dispersion can't be confused with chromatic dispersion. The ratio of velocity change to wavelength change due to this effect is known as waveguide dispersion. Since the index of refraction in the core is different from the index of refraction in the cladding, changes in the mode field diameter also change the average dispersion index and thus the signal velocity. In optical fibers, the signal travels partially in the core and partially in the cladding, and the total mode field diameter changes with wavelength. Material dispersion is a delay-time dispersion caused by the fact that the refractive index of the glass material changes by the change of the signal frequency (or wavelength). The types of Chromatic dispersion in optical fiber Material dispersion and waveguide dispersion Total dispersion is generally considered to be the combination of material dispersion, waveguide dispersion and modal dispersion. If left uncorrected, dispersion limits pulse expanding. For instance, blue light (short wavelength) transmits faster than red light (long wavelength).


Dispersion is mainly caused by electromagnetic waves of different wavelengths propagating at different speeds in the same medium. Chromatic(Wavelength) dispersion is the phenomenon in which different spectral components of a pulse travel at different speeds.
