Title :
Extended reach of 116 Gb/s DP-QPSK transmission using random DFB fiber laser based raman amplification and bidirectional second-order pumping
Author :
Tan, M. ; Rosa, P. ; Phillips, I.D. ; Harper, P.
Author_Institution :
Aston Inst. of Photonic Technol., Aston Univ., Birmingham, UK
Abstract :
We propose a novel random DFB fiber laser based Raman amplification using bidirectional second-order pumping. This extends the reach of 116 Gb/s DP-QPSK WDM transmission up to 7915 km, compared with other Raman amplification techniques.
Keywords :
Raman lasers; distributed feedback lasers; fibre lasers; optical fibre communication; optical pumping; quadrature phase shift keying; DP-QPSK WDM transmission; Raman amplification; bidirectional second-order pumping; bit rate 116 Gbit/s; distributed feedback fiber laser; random DFB fiber laser;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2015
