• DocumentCode
    1139722
  • Title

    405 km of repeaterless transmission at 5 Gb/s utilizing a post-amplifier and a remotely preamplified receiver with forward error correction

  • Author

    Alphonsus, J.E.J. ; Hansen, P.B. ; Eskildsen, L. ; Truxal, D.A. ; Grubb, S.G. ; DiGiovanni, D.J. ; Strasser, T.A. ; Beck, E.C.

  • Author_Institution
    AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA
  • Volume
    7
  • Issue
    12
  • fYear
    1995
  • Firstpage
    1495
  • Lastpage
    1497
  • Abstract
    A repeaterless system enables transmission over 405 km of fiber at 5 Gb/s with 24.3 dBm of launch power and a remotely preamplified receiver sensitivity with FEC of -59 dBm for a total span budget of 83.3 dB.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical receivers; preamplifiers; sensitivity; 405 km; 5 Gbit/s; forward error correction; launch power; post-amplifier; remotely preamplified receiver; remotely preamplified receiver sensitivity; repeaterless system; repeaterless transmission; total span budget; Bit error rate; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Forward error correction; Gain; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Preamplifiers; Pump lasers; Repeaters; Topology;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-1135
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/68.477294
  • Filename
    477294