Nyquist-WDM PDM-QPSK transmission over SMF-28 fibre using URFL amplification

Author

Rosa, P. ; Erkilinc, M.S. ; Maher, Robert ; Paskov, Milen ; Kilmurray, Sean ; Tan, Min ; Harper, P. ; Philips, I.D. ; Ellis, A.D. ; Ania-Castanon, J.-D. ; Thomsen, Benn C. ; Savory, Seb J. ; Killey, Robert I. ; Bayvel, Polina

Author_Institution

Aston Inst. of Photonic Technol., Aston Univ., Birmingham, UK

fYear

2014

fDate

6-10 July 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Nyquist-WDM PDM-QPSK transmission over standard SMF-28 fibre with novel distributed URFL amplification is reported for the first time. Transmission over 6157 km in a recirculating loop, and 320 km in an unrepeatered link without a ROPA were demonstrated.

Keywords

light polarisation; optical fibre amplifiers; optical links; optical transmitters; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; Nyquist-WDM PDM-QPSK transmission; SMF-28 fibre; distance 320 km; distance 6157 km; distributed URFL amplification; polarization division multiplexing; quadrature phase shift keying; ultra-long Raman fibre laser; unrepeatered link; wavelength-division multiplexing; Integrated optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pumping; Optical transmitters; Stimulated emission; Nyquist PDM-QPSK; ultra-long Raman fibre laser (URFL); unrepeatered transmission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2014 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Graz

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2014.6876441

Filename

6876441