Title :
Error free transmission of 64 WDM 10 Gb/s channels over 520 km of TruewaveTM fiber
Author :
Srivastava, A.K. ; Sun, Y. ; Zyskind, J.L. ; Sulhoff, J.W. ; Wolf, C. ; Judkins, J.B. ; Zhou, J. ; Zirngibl, M. ; Espindola, R.P. ; Vengsarkar, A.M. ; Li, Y.P. ; Chraplyvy, A.R.
Author_Institution :
Crawford Hill Lab., AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We report error-free transmission of 64×10 Gb/s channels with 50 GHz spacing using high power, flat gain (35 nm bandwidth) erbium-doped silica fiber amplifiers. The amplifier spacing was 80-40 km, and the total end-of-system gain nonuniformity among the 64 channels was 6.4 dB
Keywords :
erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; wavelength division multiplexing; 640 Gbit/s; 80 to 90 km; GHz spacing; Truewave fiber; WDM Gb/s channels; amplifier spacing; error free transmission; high power flat gain Er-doped silica fiber amplifiers; total end-of-system gain nonuniformity; Bandwidth; Broadband amplifiers; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical amplifiers; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical pumping; Silicon compounds; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 1998. 24th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Madrid
Print_ISBN :
84-89900-14-0
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.1998.732533
