Title : 
10.7 Gb/s CWDM system transmission with 8 channels 140 nm bandwidth over 120 km using two SOAs
         
        
            Author : 
Downie, John D. ; Sauer, Michael ; Hurley, Jason
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Corning Inc., NY, USA
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We demonstrate 8-channel CWDM transmission at 10.7 Gb/s over 120 km of fiber in two different configurations using just two SOAs for wide bandwidth amplification. The total system capacity-distance product is 9.6 Tb/s-km.
         
        
            Keywords : 
bandwidth allocation; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; 10.7 Gbit/s; 120 km; CWDM system transmission; SOA; bandwidth amplification; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
1-55752-803-9
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/OFC.2006.215861