8 x 10 Gb/s DWDM transmission over 240 km of standard fiber using a cascade of semiconductor optical amplifiers

Author

Spiekman, L.H. ; Wiesenfeld, J.M. ; Gnauck, A.H. ; Garrett, L.D. ; van den Hoven, G.N. ; van Dongen, T. ; Sander-Jochem, M.J.H. ; Binsma, J.J.M.

Author_Institution

JDS Uniphase, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Volume

12

Issue

8

fYear

2000

Firstpage

1082

Lastpage

1084

Abstract

Eight 10-Gb/s DWDM channels spaced 200 GHz around 1565 nm are transmitted over six 40-km spans of standard SMF using five inline semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs). SOAs are also used as booster and pre-amplifier in the transmitter and receiver, so that only SOAs are used in the experiment. For all channels, bit-error-rate penalties of 0.5-1.5 dB relative to baseline have been measured, with no evidence of error-rate floors.

Keywords

optical transmitters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 80 Gbit/s; Gb/s DWDM channels; Gb/s DWDM transmission; bit-error-rate penalties; error-rate floors; inline semiconductor optical amplifiers; optical receivers; optical transmitter; pre-amplifier; semiconductor optical amplifier cascade; standard SMF; standard fiber; Bit error rate; Crosstalk; Optical distortion; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Optical wavelength conversion; Power generation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.868015

Filename

868015