DocumentCode
71142
Title
Unrepeatered Transmission of 6.3 Tb/s ( 
Gb/s) Over 402-km Fiber Link
Author
Benyuan Zhu ; Borel, P. ; Carlson, K. ; Xin Jiang ; Peckham, D.W. ; Lingle, Robert ; Law, M. ; Rooney, J. ; Yan, M.F.
Author_Institution
OFS Labs., Somerset, NJ, USA
Volume
26
Issue
17
fYear
2014
fDate
Sept.1, 1 2014
Firstpage
1711
Lastpage
1714
Abstract
We demonstrated 6.3-Tb/s (63 × 128 Gb/s) unrepeatered transmission over 402-km fiber link. This was achieved by employing a high-power Yb-free clad-pumped L-band erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) as a booster amplifier in the transmitter station, a combination of ultralarge-area fiber, low loss and zero-water-peak loss fibers, and a remote optically pumped amplifier (ROPA), which was counter-propagating second-order Raman pumped from receiver station. This letter also describes the design and characteristics of Yb-free cladpumped L-band EDFA, and discusses the system performance optimization of ROPA and Raman impact on large capacity long reach unrepeatered transmission.
Keywords
erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical pumping; booster amplifier; counter-propagating second-order Raman pumped amplifier; fiber link; high-power Yb-free clad-pumped L-band erbium-doped fiber amplifier; remote optically pumped amplifier; transmitter station; unrepeatered transmission; Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; Gain; L-band; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical transmitters; Stimulated emission; Fiber optics communications; remote optically pumped amplifier; submarine unrepeatered system;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1041-1135
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/LPT.2014.2331338
Filename
6844859
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