Title :
Triple 640 km cascade of tunable all optical regenerators in a 10 Gb/s WDM field trial over 160 km per span distance in MCI´s metro network
Author :
Chen, David ; Xia, T.J. ; Wellbrock, Glenn ; Davis, Gary B. ; Ezra, S.B. ; Tsadka, Sagi
Abstract :
We demonstrated a tunable-all-optical-signal-regenerator based on a SOA incorporated in a Sagnac-loop for performing 10-Gb/s-WDM 2-R signal regeneration. Triple 640 km cascading 2-Rs and hybrid EDFA/Raman amplifier over 160 km per span at total 1920 km field fiber.
Keywords :
Raman lasers; erbium; metropolitan area networks; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre networks; optical repeaters; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 160 km; 1920 km; 640 km; Raman amplifier; SOA; Sagnac-loop; WDM; hybrid EDFA; metro network; signal regeneration; triple cascade regenerators; tunable all optical regenerators; wavelength converter;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
