All-Raman amplified transmission at 40 Gbit/s in standard single mode fibre

Author

Huang, Z. ; Gray, A. ; Lee, Y.W.A. ; Khrushchev, I.Y. ; Bennion, I.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Aston Univ., Birmingham, UK

fYear

2003

fDate

22-27 June 2003

Firstpage

531

Abstract

We investigate a 40 Gbit/s all-Raman amplified standard single mode fibre (SMF) transmission system with the mid-range amplifier spacing of 80-90 km. The impact of span configuration on double Rayleigh back scattering (DRBS) was studied. Four different span configurations were compared experimentally. A transmission distance of 1666 km in SMF has been achieved without forward error correcting (FEC) for the first time. The results demonstrate that the detrimental effects associated with high pump power Raman amplification in standard fibre can be minimised by dispersion map optimisation.

Keywords

Raman spectra; Rayleigh scattering; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical pumping; optimisation; 1666 km; 40 Gbit/s; 80 to 90 km; SMF transmission system; all-Raman amplified transmission; amplifier spacing; dispersion map optimisation; double Rayleigh back scattering; pump power; single mode fibre; span configuration; Bit error rate; Optical noise; Q factor; Signal to noise ratio; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2003. CLEO/Europe. 2003 Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7734-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2003.1313593

Filename

1313593