Title :
Progress towards a Pan-European WDM network: 3600 km, 25 Gbit/s cascade of all optical 2R regenerator/wavelength converters and 400 km uncompensated standard fibre sections
Author :
Dupas, A. ; Billes, L. ; Simon, J.C. ; Landousies, B. ; Henry, M. ; Ratovelomanana, F. ; Enard, A. ; Vodjdani, N.
Author_Institution :
CNET, Lannion, France
Abstract :
An all-optical 2R regenerator inserted in a 400 km long recirculation loop with 100 km spaced fibre amplifiers allows transmission at 2.5 Gbit/s over more than 3600 km of standard fibre without any dispersion management scheme
Keywords :
optical repeaters; 100 km; 2.5 Gbit/s; 3600 km; 400 km; Gbit/s cascade; Pan-European WDM network; all optical 2R regenerator; all-optical 2R regenerator; dispersion management; km uncompensated standard fibre sections; recirculation loop; standard fibre; wavelength converters;
Conference_Titel :
Integrated Optics and Optical Fibre Communications, 11th International Conference on, and 23rd European Conference on Optical Communications (Conf. Publ. No.: 448)
Conference_Location :
Edinburgh
Print_ISBN :
0-85296-697-0
DOI :
10.1049/cp:19971618
