System margin enhancement with Raman gain in multi-span WDM transmission

Author

Srivastava, A.K. ; Zhang, L. ; Sun, Y. ; Sulhoff, J.W. ; Wolf, C.

Author_Institution

Crawford Hill Lab., AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

4

fYear

1999

fDate

21-26 Feb. 1999

Firstpage

53

Abstract

With the improvement of 4-dB system margin by distributed Raman gain, we demonstrate error-free transmission of 40 wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) L-band channels with 50-GHz spacing at 10 Gbit/s over 5/spl times/120 km spans of dispersion-shifted fiber.

Keywords

Raman lasers; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 120 km; 600 km; GHz spacing; Raman gain; WDM L-band channels; dispersion-shifted fiber span; distributed Raman gain; error-free transmission; multi-span WDM transmission; system margin enhancement; wavelength-division multiplexing L-band channels; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fiber lasers; L-band; Laser excitation; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Power amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 1999, and the International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication. OFC/IOOC '99. Technical Digest

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-582-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1999.765992

Filename

765992