1.6 Tb/s (40 × 40 Gb/s) transmission over 500 km of nonzero dispersion fiber with 100-km amplified spans compensated by extra-high-slope dispersion-compensating fiber

Author

Leng, L. ; Zhu, B. ; Stulz, S. ; Nelson, L.E. ; Quang le NT ; Gruner-Nielsen, Lars

Author_Institution

Opt. Fiber Solutions, Lucent Technol. Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

17-22 Mar 2002

Firstpage

554

Lastpage

555

Abstract

We have demonstrated transmission of forty 100-GHz spaced, 40-Gb/s NRZ channels over 500 km of TrueWave-RS fiber with 100-km amplified spans without any per-band or per-channel dispersion correction. Bit error rates below 2.4 × 10^-11 are achieved for all forty C-band WDM channels. This result is achieved using hybrid Raman/EDFA amplification with a single-wavelength Raman pump and slope-matched dispersion-compensating modules. No for-ward error correction techniques are employed. The extra-high-slope dispersion-compensating fiber provides superb dispersion and dispersion-slope compensation over the entire C-band and effectively reduces the residual dispersion variation to ±0.038 ps/(nm-km).

Keywords

Raman lasers; compensation; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical pumping; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; 1.6 Tbit/s; 100 km; 40 Gbit/s; 500 km; C-band WDM channels; TrueWave-RS fiber; amplified spans; bit error rates; dispersion-slope compensation; extra-high-slope dispersion-compensating fiber; high-slope dispersion-compensating fiber; hybrid Raman/EDFA amplification; nonzero dispersion fiber; residual dispersion variation; single-wavelength Raman pump; slope-matched dispersion-compensating modules; Clocks; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Internet; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical noise; Optical signal processing; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2002. OFC 2002

Print_ISBN

1-55752-701-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2002.1036551

Filename

1036551