Transmission comparison of ultra-long Raman fibre laser based amplification with first and dual order Raman amplification using 10×118 Gbit/s DP-QPSK

Author

Mingming Tan ; Rosa, P. ; Phillips, I.D. ; Stephens, M.F.C. ; Sygletos, S. ; Ellis, Abraham ; Harper, P.

Author_Institution

Aston Inst. of Photonic Technol., Aston Univ., Birmingham, UK

fYear

2014

fDate

6-10 July 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Experimental investigations of 10×118 Gbit/s DP-QPSK WDM transmission using three types of distributed Raman amplification techniques are presented. Novel ultra-long Raman fibre laser based amplification with second order counter-propagated pumping is compared with conventional first order and dual order counter-pumped Raman amplification. We demonstrate that URFL based amplification can extend the transmission reach up to a distance of 7520 km in comparison with 5010 km and 6180 km using first order and dual order Raman amplification respectively.

Keywords

Raman lasers; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; DP-QPSK WDM transmission; distributed Raman amplification techniques; dual order Raman amplification; second order counter-propagated pumping; ultra-long Raman fibre laser based amplification; Fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Optical fiber amplifiers; Pump lasers; Stimulated emission; Raman amplification; Raman fibre laser; coherent fibre optic communications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2014 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Graz

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2014.6876410

Filename

6876410