16/spl times/10 gb/s DPSK transmission over 140-km SSMF by using two common SOAs

Author

Proietti, R. ; D´Errico, A. ; Giorgi, L. ; Calabretta, N. ; Contestabile, G. ; Ciaramella, E.

Author_Institution

C.E.I.R.C, Scuola Superiore Sant´´Anna, Pisa

Volume

18

Issue

15

fYear

2006

Firstpage

1675

Lastpage

1677

Abstract

We demonstrate the unrepeatered and uncompensated wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) transmission of 16times10 Gb/s differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) channels over 140-km G.652 fiber using two commercial semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) as booster and preamplifier, respectively. The long uncompensated span was achieved thanks to the use of a frequency-periodic narrow optical filter that simultaneously demodulates all the WDM-DPSK channels and avoids chromatic dispersion compensation. The measured bit-error-rate (BER) curves show a maximum power penalty of 1.4 dB at BER=10^-9 confirming that the high accumulated dispersion and the nonlinear effects in the SOAs do not significantly impair the transmission

Keywords

demodulation; differential phase shift keying; error statistics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical filters; optical modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; 140 km; 16 Gbit/s; 160 Gbit/s; DPSK; SOA; SSMF; WDM; bit-error-rate; chromatic dispersion compensation; differential phase-shift keying; narrow optical filter; semiconductor optical amplifier; wavelength-division-multiplexing; Bit error rate; Chromatic dispersion; Differential phase shift keying; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Frequency; Optical filters; Power measurement; Preamplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing; Optical communications; optical differential phase-shift keying (DPSK); semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs); wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) systems;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.879923

Filename

1661687