Field trial over a 750 km long transparent WDM link using an adaptive 10 Gb/s receiver with non-intrusive monitoring capability

Author

Herbst, S. ; Sohnle, H. ; Fregolent, M. ; Wedding, B. ; Braun, R.P. ; Ehrhardt, A.

Author_Institution

Alcatel SEL, Stuttgart, Germany

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

17-22 March 2001

Abstract

An adaptive optical receiver was successfully tested over a 750 km long transparent WDM link. The excellent agreement of estimated and measured bit error ratio demonstrates nonintrusive monitoring in a transparent optical network. We report on the results of a field trial over a 75 km long WDM link between Darmstadt and Berlin, with an adaptive 10 Gb/s optical receiver, that combines non-intrusive error rate monitoring, automatic receiver parameter optimization and adaptive mitigation of transmission impairments.

Keywords

adaptive optics; monitoring; optical fibre networks; optical receivers; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 750 km; adaptive Gb/s receiver; adaptive mitigation; adaptive optical receiver; automatic receiver parameter optimization; field trial; long transparent WDM link; measured bit error ratio; non-intrusive error rate monitoring; non-intrusive monitoring capability; nonintrusive monitoring; transmission impairments; transparent WDM link; transparent optical network; Bit error rate; Bit rate; Monitoring; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Testing; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2001. OFC 2001

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-655-9

Type

conf

Filename

927910