Transmission over 362 km of 110 channels at 2.35 Gb/s from a spectrum-sliced femtosecond laser

Author

Boivin, L. ; Wegmuller, M. ; Nuss, M.C. ; Knox, W.H. ; Sun, Y. ; Srivastava, A.K. ; Sulhoff, J.W. ; Wolf, C.

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol., AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

11

Issue

10

fYear

1999

Firstpage

1319

Lastpage

1321

Abstract

We use temporal spectrum-slicing and optical time-division multiplexing to obtain 110 wavelength channels at 2.35 Gb/s from a single femtosecond fiber laser. We show that the output of this transmitter can be propagated over 362 km of standard single mode fiber using periodic amplification and dispersion compensation. Most transmitted channels have Q factors larger than 18.34 dB corresponding to error floors below 10/sup -16/.

Keywords

Q-factor; high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre communication; optical transmitters; time division multiplexing; 2.35 Gbit/s; 362 km; Q factors; dispersion compensation; optical time-division multiplexing; periodic amplification; spectrum-sliced femtosecond laser; standard single mode fiber; temporal spectrum-slicing; transmitted channels; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Multiplexing; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical modulation; Optical transmitters; Polarization mode dispersion; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.789730

Filename

789730