320-Gb/s (32 x 10 Gb/s WDM) transmission over 500 km of conventional single-mode fiber with 125-km amplifier spacing

Author

Bigo, S. ; Bertaina, A. ; Chbat, M.W. ; Gurib, S. ; Da Loura, J. ; Jacquinot, J.-C. ; Hervo, J. ; Bousselet, P. ; Borne, S. ; Bayart, D. ; Gasca, L. ; Beylat, J.L.

Author_Institution

Alcatel Corp. Res. Centre, Marcoussis, France

Volume

10

Issue

7

fYear

1998

fDate

7/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1045

Lastpage

1047

Abstract

Thirty-two 10-Gb/s channels spaced by 100 GHz are transmitted over 500 km of dispersive fiber (D>+19 ps/nm/spl middot/km) with 125-km amplifier spacing. This is made possible by the use of 3 in-line dual-stage flat-gain erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) incorporating dispersion-compensating fiber. The transmission performance is significantly improved when a 9-km section of dispersion compensating fiber is added at the receiver end, for the longer-wavelength half of the multiplex.

Keywords

compensation; erbium; fibre lasers; optical fibre dispersion; optical receivers; optical transmitters; wavelength division multiplexing; 125 km; 320 Gbit/s; 500 km; 9 km; Gb/s WDM transmission; Gb/s channels; conventional single-mode fiber; dispersion compensating fiber; dispersion-compensating fiber; dispersive fiber; in-line dual-stage flat-gain erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; km amplifier spacing; longer-wavelength half; multiplex; receiver end; transmission performance; Attenuation; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Polarization mode dispersion; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.681312

Filename

681312