Transmission of 4 x 2.5-Gb/s spectrum-sliced incoherent light channels over 240 km of dispersion-shifted fiber with 200-GHz channel spacing

Author

Han, Jung-Hee ; Kim, Sun-Jong ; Lee, Jae-Seung

Author_Institution

Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Taejon, South Korea

Volume

11

Issue

7

fYear

1999

fDate

7/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

901

Lastpage

903

Abstract

We demonstrate a transmission of 4/spl times/2.5-Gb/s spectrum-sliced incoherent wavelength-division-multiplexed channels over 240 km of dispersion-shifted fiber. The channel bandwidth and the channel spacing are kept small using the intrachannel four-wave mixing at the receiver. The error-floor level is close to 1/spl times/10/sup -11/ and the dispersion penalty is within 1 dB at 1/spl times/10/sup -9/ bit-error rate. Eye opening simulation shows that incoherent channels are less sensitive to the fiber four-wave mixing than coherent channels.

Keywords

light coherence; multiwave mixing; optical fibre dispersion; optical receivers; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 2.5 Gbit/s; 240 km; GHz channel spacing; Gb/s spectrum-sliced incoherent light channels; Gb/s spectrum-sliced incoherent wavelength-division-multiplexed channels; bit-error rate; channel bandwidth; channel spacing; coherent channels; dispersion penalty; dispersion-shifted fiber; error-floor level; eye opening simulation; fiber four-wave mixing; incoherent channels; intrachannel four-wave mixing; Bandwidth; Bit rate; Channel spacing; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.769746

Filename

769746