Transmission of 32-WDM 10-Gb/s channels over 640 km using broad-band, gain-flattened erbium-doped silica fiber amplifiers

Author

Sun, Y. ; Judkins, J.B. ; Srivastava, A.K. ; Garrett, L. ; Zyskind, J.L. ; Sulhoff, J.W. ; Wolf, C. ; Derosier, R.M. ; Gnauck, A.H. ; Tkach, R.W. ; Zhou, J. ; Espindola, R.P. ; Vengsarkar, A.M. ; Chraplyvy, A.R.

Author_Institution

Crawford Hill Lab., AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

9

Issue

12

fYear

1997

Firstpage

1652

Lastpage

1654

Abstract

We report 640-km transmission of 32 wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) 10-Gb/s channels with 100-GHz spacing (covering 25-nm bandwidth) using wide dynamic range, gain-flattened erbium-doped silica fiber amplifiers (EDSFAs) with an optical bandwidth of 35 nm. The EDSFA separation is 80 km, the system gain is 140 dB and the total end of system gain nonuniformity among the 32 channels is 4.9 dB.

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 140 dB; 32-WDM 10-Gb/s channel transmission; 4.9 dB; 80 km; Er-doped fiber amplifiers; GHz spacing; broad-band gain-flattened erbium-doped silica fiber amplifiers; optical bandwidth; system gain; system gain nonuniformity; wavelength-division-multiplexed; wide dynamic range; Bandwidth; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical filters; Optical pumping; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Silicon compounds; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.643301

Filename

643301