16×40 gb/s over 800 km of SSMF using mid-link spectral inversion

Author

Jansen, Sander L. ; Spälter, Stefan ; Khoe, Giok-Djan ; De Waardt, Huug ; Escobar, Hector E. ; Marshall, Larry ; Sher, Mark

Author_Institution

COBRA Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

Volume

16

Issue

7

fYear

2004

fDate

7/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1763

Lastpage

1765

Abstract

We demonstrate the feasibility of a cost-effective 640 Gb/s (16×40 Gb/s) wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) transmission system over 800 km of conventional standard single-mode fiber (SSMF) without using in-line dispersion management. Instead for chromatic-dispersion compensation, a Magnesium-oxide-doped periodically poled lithium niobate (MgO : PPLN)-based polarization-diverse subsystem is used to phase conjugate all 16 channels. The transmission line uses all erbium-doped fiber amplifiers and has an amplifier spacing of 100 km. All channels launched were copolarized. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first WDM transmission experiment with a channel data rate of 40 Gb/s using a PPLN as chromatic-dispersion compensator.

Keywords

channel spacing; compensation; erbium; lithium compounds; magnesium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical phase conjugation; wavelength division multiplexing; 40 Gbit/s; 640 Gbit/s; 800 km; Er; LiNbO₃:MgO; PPLN; SSMF; amplifier spacing; chromatic-dispersion compensation; copolarized channels; erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; mid-link spectral inversion; optical phase conjugation; polarization-diverse subsystem; standard single-mode fiber; wavelength division multiplexing; Channel spacing; Chromatic dispersion; Distributed feedback devices; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Lithium niobate; Optical distortion; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; System performance; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2004.828546

Filename

1308291