16 channel, 10 Gb/s DWDM transmission of directly modulated lasers with 100 GHz channel spacing over 100 km of negative dispersion fiber

Author

Filios, A. ; Hallock, B. ; Kennedy, T. ; Tomkos, I. ; Vodhanel, M. ; Vodhanel, R.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

742

Abstract

Error free uncompensated DWDM transmission over 100 km of MetroCor fiber was demonstrated with a 16 channel DML system with 100 GHz channel spacing in the C-band. The nearly tenfold increase in the uncompensated transmission distance facilitated by the use of MetroCor fiber compared to standard single-mode fibers, using low cost 10 Gb/s directly modulated lasers, is an attractive solution for the development of cost effective metropolitan area networks. In this experiment, a total capacity of 160 Gb/s was demonstrated. Since the C and L bands can accommodate 80 channels with a 100 GHz spacing, these results indicate that a total capacity of 800 Gb/s can be achieved with 10 Gb/s DMLs in metro DWDM networks

Keywords

chirp modulation; metropolitan area networks; optical fibre networks; optical pulse compression; optical transmitters; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 100 km; C-band; DWDM transmission; MetroCor fiber; directly modulated lasers; error free uncompensated transmission; extinction ratio; metro DWDM networks; negative dispersion fiber; positive chirp; pulse compression; Bit error rate; Channel spacing; Extinction ratio; Fiber lasers; Laser tuning; Optical fiber testing; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Q factor; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2001. LEOS 2001. The 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7105-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2001.969028

Filename

969028