S-band all-Raman amplifiers for 40 /spl times/ 10 Gb/s transmission over 6 /spl times/ 100 km of non-zero dispersion fiber

Author

Bromage, J. ; Bouteiller, J.-C. ; Thiele, H.J. ; Brar, K. ; Park, J.H. ; Headley, C. ; Nelson, L.E. ; Qian, Y. ; DeMarco, J. ; Stulz, S. ; Leng, L. ; Zhu, B. ; Eggleton, B.J.

Author_Institution

Syst. Testing Opt. Fiber Solutions, Lucent Technol., Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2001

fDate

17-22 March 2001

Abstract

We present S-band Raman amplifiers that compensate both dispersion and span loss using distributed and discrete amplification over 1488/1518 nm. We transmitted 40 /spl times/ 10 Gb/s over 6 /spl times/ 100 km of a prototype TrueWave/sup AE/ fiber.

Keywords

Raman lasers; laser transitions; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; 10 Gbit/s; 100 km; 1488 nm; 1518 nm; 400 Gbit/s; 600 km; Gb/s transmission; S-band all-Raman amplifiers; TrueWave/sup AE/ fiber; discrete amplification; fibre dispersion compensation; fibre span loss compensation; nonzero dispersion fiber; optical fibre amplifiers; Distributed amplifiers; Noise figure; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Power amplifiers; Prototypes; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2001. OFC 2001

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-655-9

Type

conf

Filename

927535