Long distance transmission through distributed erbium-doped fibers

Author

Rottwitt, Karsten ; Povlsen, Jørn Hedegaard ; Bjarklev, Anders

Author_Institution

Electron. Inst., Tech. Univ. Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Volume

11

Issue

12

fYear

1993

fDate

12/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2105

Lastpage

2115

Abstract

High bit rate, all-optical long-distance transmission could be created through the combined use of loss-compensating gain in erbium-doped fibers and solitons. A detailed analysis of the distributed erbium-doped fiber, including the spectral-gain dependency, is combined with an optimum design of the transmission fiber and general bit-error-rate calculations. Changes in wavenumber, group velocity, and fiber dispersion due to erbium doping in a single-mode fiber are evaluated, and a reduction in bit-error rates due to the erbium spectral-gain profile is shown. Transmission through distributed erbium-doped fiber with 100-km separation between each pump-power station is shown, with a total bit-rate distance product of 55 Gb/s · Mm

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; optical fibre theory; optical links; optical solitons; 100 km; BER; bit error rate; bit-rate distance product; distributed erbium-doped fibers; fiber dispersion; group velocity; high bit rate; long distance transmission; loss-compensating gain; pump-power station; single-mode fiber; solitons; spectral-gain dependence; transmission fiber; wavenumber; Bit error rate; Bit rate; Doping profiles; Erbium; Nonlinear distortion; Power amplifiers; Power transmission lines; Propagation losses; Pulse amplifiers; Solitons;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.257977

Filename

257977