Title :
Evaluation of Chirp-Managed Lasers in a Dispersion Managed DWDM Transmission over 24 Spans
Author :
Chandrasekhar, S. ; Kilper, D.C. ; Zheng, X. ; Mahgerefteh, D. ; Matsui, Y. ; McCallion, K. ; Fan, Z. ; Tayebati, P.
Author_Institution :
Bell Labs., Lucent Technol., Holmdel, NJ
Abstract :
We report the first long-haul DWDM transmission using three chirp-managed lasers spaced 50-GHz apart in SSMF at 10-Gb/s. Transmission penalties less than 0.7 dB over a dispersion-managed 1980-km link was measured with performance comparable to NRZ-OOK.
Keywords :
amplitude shift keying; chirp modulation; optical fibre dispersion; optical links; wavelength division multiplexing; SSMF; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; chirp-managed laser; dispersion managed DWDM transmission; dispersion-managed link; distance 1980 km; frequency 50 GHz; Chirp; Fiber lasers; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Pulse modulation; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2007. OFC/NFOEC 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-831-4
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2007.4348707
