1700-km transmission at 40-Gb/s with 100 km amplifier-spacing enabled by higher-order-mode dispersion-compensation

Author

Ramachandran, Siddharth ; Raybon, Gregory ; Mikkelsen, Benny ; Yan, Man ; Cowsar, Lawrence ; Essiambre, Rene Jean

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol. Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

282

Abstract

We report transmission at 40 Gb/s over a record length (1700 km) of non-zero dispersion fiber with 100 km amplifier spacing. The demonstration is enabled by an all-fiber higher-order-mode dispersion-compensating module that features a high effective area and low insertion loss. The high effective area of the dispersion compensating module allows high input power, which helps maintain high optical signal-to-noise ratios throughout the transmission span.

Keywords

erbium; light interference; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; 100 km; 1700 km; 40 Gbit/s; EDFA; all-fiber dispersion-compensating module; amplifier-spacing; high effective area; high input power; higher-order-mode dispersion-compensation; long-distance transmission; low insertion loss; multipath interference; nonzero dispersion fiber; optical signal-to-noise ratio; transmission distance; Degradation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical distortion; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Optical noise; Signal to noise ratio; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6705-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.2001.989628

Filename

989628