• DocumentCode
    2155534
  • Title

    A comparison between SSMF and large-Aeff Pure-Silica core fiber for ultra long-haul 100G transmission

  • Author

    Sleiffer, V.A.J.M. ; van den Borne, D. ; Kuschnerov, M. ; Veljanovski, V. ; Hirano, M. ; Yamamoto, Y. ; Sasaki, T. ; Jansen, S.L. ; de Waardt, H.

  • Author_Institution
    COBRA Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    18-22 Sept. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We compare the transmission performance of 112-Gb/s POLMUX-QPSK modulation over large-Aeff Pure-Silica core fiber and SSMF using EDFA-only amplification. The higher nonlinear threshold of the large-Aeff fiber allows for a 40% improvement in transmission distance.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre communication; quadrature phase shift keying; POLMUX-QPSK modulation; SSMF; large-Aeff pure-silica core fiber; polarization-multiplexed quadrature phase shift keying; standard single mode fiber; transmission distance; ultra long-haul transmission; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical polarization; Optical switches;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Geneva
  • ISSN
    Pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1918-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6065845