Advanced 160 Gbit/s OTDM system based on wavelength transparent 4 × 40 Gbit/s ETDM transmitters and receivers

Author

Lach, E. ; Schmidt, Martin ; Schuh, Karsten ; Junginger, B. ; Veith, G.

Author_Institution

Alcatel Res. & Innovation, Stuttgart, Germany

fYear

2002

fDate

17-22 Mar 2002

Firstpage

2

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We have demonstrated an advanced 160 Gbit/s OTDM transmission system with a wavelength transparent transmitter concept suitable for DWDM operation. Latest 40 Gbit/s ETDM technology is used for the first time both in the 160 Gbit/s transmitter and receiver along with PLL clock recovery. 160 Gbit/s OTDM transmission has been demonstrated over 2 × 100 km of TeraLight™ fibre without an error floor. The experiments clearly show that long TeraLight™ fibre spans can be bridged without the need for Raman-amplification.

Keywords

optical fibre networks; optical phase locked loops; optical receivers; optical transmitters; synchronisation; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; 100 km; 160 Gbit/s; 40 Gbit/s; DWDM operation; Gbit/s OTDM system; OTDM transmission; OTDM transmission system; PLL clock recovery; long TeraLight fibre spans; phase locked loops; wavelength transparent receivers; wavelength transparent transmitters; Bit rate; Costs; Demultiplexing; Electrons; Energy management; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Power system management; Time division multiplexing; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2002. OFC 2002

Print_ISBN

1-55752-701-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2002.1036161

Filename

1036161