Metro network utilizing 10 Gb/s directly modulated lasers and negative dispersion fiber

Author

Tomkos, Ioannis ; Hesse, Robert ; Vodhanel, Rich ; Boskovic, Aleksandra

Author_Institution

Photonics Res. & Test Center, Corning Inc., Somerset, NJ, USA

Volume

14

Issue

3

fYear

2002

fDate

3/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

408

Lastpage

410

Abstract

In this letter, we present the feasibility of metro area transparent wavelength-division-multiplexing networking with cost-effective 1550 nm 10 Gb/s directly modulated transmitters. We report excellent performance results (Q-factor>9 dB) for a transparent short-reach metropolitan area ring network based on application-optimized, optical layer components and fiber. The demonstration is based on a network consisting of four nodes interconnected with 25.5 km spans of uncompensated negative dispersion fiber. The network is designed to support 32 directly modulated channels operating at 10 Gb/s (320 Gb/s capacity).

Keywords

Q-factor; metropolitan area networks; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; optical transmitters; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 10-Gb/s directly modulated transmitters; 1550 nm; 25.5 km; Q-factor; application-optimized optical layer components; directly modulated channels; filter concatenation; frequency chirp; interconnected nodes; metro area transparent wavelength-division-multiplexing networking; metropolitan area optical networks; transparent short-reach metropolitan area ring network; uncompensated negative dispersion fiber; Costs; Fiber lasers; Metropolitan area networks; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical transmitters; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.986829

Filename

986829