80×10.7 Gb/s ultra-long-haul (+4200 km) DWDM network with reconfigurable "broadcast & select" OADMs

Author

Tomkos, I. ; Vasilyev, M. ; Rhee, J.-K. ; Mehendale, M. ; Hallock, B. ; Szalabofka, B. ; Williams, M. ; Tsuda, S. ; Sharma, M.

Author_Institution

PRTC, Corning Inc., Somerset, NJ, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

17-22 Mar 2002

Abstract

We report the first dynamically reconfigurable ULH network demonstration using "broadcast & select" optical add drop multiplexer (OADM) architecture. We demonstrate 80×10.7 Gb/s NRZ C-band DWDM networking over 4160km of all-Raman amplified dispersion-managed fiber and 13 concatenated OADMs with 2dB Q-margin for 10^-15 BER operation.

Keywords

Raman lasers; broadcast channels; error statistics; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre dispersion; telecommunication network management; telecommunication traffic; wavelength division multiplexing; 10.7 Gbit/s; 4160 km; 4200 km; BER operation; Gb/s NRZ C-band DWDM networking; Gb/s ultra-long-haul DWDM network; Q-margin; all-Raman amplified dispersion-managed fiber; dynamically reconfigurable ULH network demonstration; optical add drop multiplexer; reconfigurable broadcast & select OADMs; Broadcasting; Concatenated codes; Crosstalk; Optical add-drop multiplexers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical signal processing; Switches; Telecommunication traffic; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2002. OFC 2002

Print_ISBN

1-55752-701-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2002.1036772

Filename

1036772