80-Gb/s transmission over 106-km standard-fiber using optical phase conjugation in a Sagnac-interferometer

Author

Feiste, U. ; Ludwig, R. ; Schmidt, C. ; Dietrich, E. ; Diez, S. ; Ehrke, H.J. ; Patzak, E. ; Weber, H.G. ; Merker, T.

Author_Institution

Heinrich-Hertz-Inst. fur Nachrichtentech. Berlin GmbH, Germany

Volume

11

Issue

8

fYear

1999

Firstpage

1063

Lastpage

1065

Abstract

We report on 80-Gb/s transmission over 106 km of standard-fiber (D=16 ps/km/nm) using midspan spectral inversion. The optical phase conjugated signal is generated by four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). The SOA is implemented in a Sagnac-interferometer in order to achieve an efficient continuous-wave-pump suppression. Accompanying simulations show, that at 80 Gb/s, the transmission distance can hardly be enhanced due to the residual pulse broadening by second-order dispersion.

Keywords

light interferometers; multiwave mixing; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical phase conjugation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; time division multiplexing; 106 km; 80 Gbit/s; SOA; Sagnac-interferometer; continuous-wave-pump suppression; four-wave mixing; midspan spectral inversion; optical phase conjugated signal; optical phase conjugation; residual pulse broadening; second-order dispersion; semiconductor optical amplifier; transmission distance; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical mixing; Optical pumping; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal generators;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.775347

Filename

775347