1.6 Tb/s (40 × 42.7 Gb/s) transmission over 2000 km of fiber with 100-km dispersion-managed spans

Author

Zhu, B. ; Leng, L. ; Nelson, L.E. ; Knudsen, S. ; Bromage, J. ; Peckham, D. ; Stulz, S. ; Brar, K. ; Horn, C. ; Feder, K. ; Thiele, H. ; Veng, T.

Author_Institution

Opt. Fiber Solutions, Lucent Technoloeies, Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

6

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

16

Abstract

We demonstrate 1.6 Tb/s (40 × 42.7 Gb/s) WDM transmission over 2000 km of fiber with 100-km amplifier spacing and 100-GHZ channel spacing. Error free transmission of all 40 C-band channels is achieved. We employ dispersion-managed fiber spans, hybrid Raman/Er-doped fiber inline amplifiers. and forward error correction to achieve this record 40 Gb/s WDM transmission distance with terrestrial span lengths.

Keywords

Raman lasers; erbium; forward error correction; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; wavelength division multiplexing; 1.6 Tbit/s; 100 km; 2000 km; 42.7 Gbit/s; C-band channels; WDM transmission; amplifier spacing; channel spacing; dispersion-managed spans; error free transmission; fiber spans; forward error correction; hybrid Raman/Er-doped fiber inline amplifiers; Chromatic dispersion; Forward error correction; Internet; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Polarization mode dispersion; Pulse amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6705-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.2001.989027

Filename

989027