Experimental comparison of WDM system capacity in conventional and nonzero dispersion shifted fiber

Author

Eiselt, M. ; Garrett, L.D. ; Tkach, R.W.

Author_Institution

Newman Springs Lab., AT&T Lab. Res., Red Bank, NJ, USA

Volume

11

Issue

2

fYear

1999

Firstpage

281

Lastpage

283

Abstract

A primary consideration in designing new backbone optical network segments is the total data capacity of each fiber span. We compare the wavelength-division-multiplexed capacity of conventional single-mode fiber (SMF) and nonzero dispersion shifted fiber by measuring performance versus channel spacing in 4/spl times/80 km transmission of five 10 Gb/s channels at the nominal commercial erbium-doped fiber amplifier power specification of 9 dBm/ch. The achievable capacity is found to be more than four times greater in conventional SMF.

Keywords

optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre testing; telecommunication channels; 10 Gbit/s; 320 km; 50 Gbit/s; 80 km; WDM system capacity; achievable capacity; backbone optical network segments; channel spacing; fiber span; nominal commercial erbium-doped fiber amplifier power specification; nonzero dispersion shifted fiber; single-mode fiber; total data capacity; wavelength-division-multiplexed capacity; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Nonlinear optics; Optical design; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber networks; Optical mixing; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.740730

Filename

740730