Transport performance of a transparent WDM regional area ring network utilizing optimized components/fiber

Author

Tomkos, I. ; Hesse, R. ; Friedman, C. ; Antoniades, N. ; Madamopoulos, N. ; Hallock, B. ; Vodhanel, R. ; Boskovic, A.

Author_Institution

Photonics Res. & Test Center, Corning Inc, Somerset, NJ, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2001

fDate

17-22 March 2001

Abstract

We present excellent performance results (Q-factor>10) for a transparent regional-size ring network based on application-optimized optical layer components and fiber. The network consists of 6 nodes interconnected with 86.5 km-spans of uncompensated negative dispersion fiber (520 km-ring circumference n no dispersion compensation) and supports 32 directly modulated channels operating at 2.5 Gb/s (80 Gb/s capacity).

Keywords

Q-factor; metropolitan area networks; optical communication equipment; optical fibre LAN; optical fibre dispersion; optimisation; transparency; wavelength division multiplexing; 2.5 Gbit/s; 520 km; 80 Gbit/s; 86.5 km; Q-factor; application-optimized optical fiber; application-optimized optical layer components; directly modulated channels; dispersion compensation; interconnected nodes; operating capacity; optimized components; optimized fiber; ring circumference; transparent WDM regional area ring network; transparent regional-size ring network; transport performance; uncompensated negative dispersion fiber; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber testing; Optical filters; Optical transmitters; Polarization mode dispersion; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2001. OFC 2001

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-655-9

Type

conf

Filename

927584