3.28-Tb/s transmission over 3 x 100 km of nonzero-dispersion fiber using dual C- and L-band distributed Raman amplification

Author

Nielsen, T.N. ; Stentz, A.J. ; Rottwitt, K. ; Vengsarkar, D.S. ; Chen, Z.J. ; Hansen, P.B. ; Park, J.H. ; Feder, K.S. ; Cabot, S. ; Stulz, S. ; Peckham, D.W. ; Hsu, L. ; Kan, C.K. ; Judy, A.F. ; Park, S.Y. ; Nelson, L.E. ; Grüner-Nielsen, L.

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol. Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

12

Issue

8

fYear

2000

Firstpage

1079

Lastpage

1081

Abstract

A record aggregate capacity of 3.28-Tb/s (82/spl times/40 Gb/s NRZ) is transmitted over 3/spl times/100 km of nonzero-dispersion fiber. The system incorporates for the first time dual C- and L-band transmission and distributed Raman amplification in addition to the 40-Gb/s NRZ line rate.

Keywords

optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; 100 km; 3.28 Tbit/s; 300 km; 40 Gbit/s; C-band distributed Raman amplification; Gb/s NRZ line rate; L-band distributed Raman amplification; Tb/s transmission; distributed Raman amplification; nonzero-dispersion fiber; Aggregates; Band pass filters; Decorrelation; Forward error correction; L-band; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fibers; Optical signal processing; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.868014

Filename

868014