4×2.5 Gb/s transmission over standard singlemode fiber with amplifier spacing of 160 km

Author

De Barros, Miriam R X ; de L.Rocha, M. ; Coral, Claudemir ; Monteiro, Horicléa S. ; Pereira, Jorge S. ; Tsuda, SCrgio ; Pereira, Fernando A S ; Xavier, Emanoel

Author_Institution

Fundacao CPqD, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

189

Abstract

A 4×2.5 Gb/s WDM transmission system was demonstrated over 740 km of standard singlemode fiber with amplifier spacing of 160 km. The four line amplifiers used have saturated output power of 12 dBm and non-equalized gain profile. To the authors´ knowledge, this is the largest repeater spacing demonstrated for a WDM system without ASE filtering. Bit error rates as low as 10^-16 were measured for received power ranging between -30 and -27 dBm, depending on the channel. The power penalties are below 2 dB for a bit error rate of 10 ^-9. This penalty is mainly due to accumulated noise from the amplifiers

Keywords

digital communication; error statistics; optical fibre communication; optical repeaters; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 160 km; 2.5 Gbit/s; 740 km; BER; Gbit/s transmission; WDM transmission system; bit error rates; line amplifiers; long haul transmission; nonequalized gain profile; repeater spacing; standard singlemode fiber; Fiber nonlinear optics; Operational amplifiers; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fibers; Optical receivers; Power amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference, 1999. SBMO/IEEE MTT-S, APS and LEOS - IMOC '99. International

Conference_Location

Rio de Janeiro

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5807-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMOC.1999.867086

Filename

867086