• DocumentCode
    2848071
  • Title

    40 × 112 Gb/s transmission over an unrepeatered 365 km effective area-managed span comprised of ultra-low loss optical fibre

  • Author

    Downie, John D. ; Hurley, Jason ; Cartledge, John ; Ten, Sergey ; Bickham, Scott ; Mishra, Snigdharaj ; Zhu, Xianming ; Kobyakov, Andrey

  • Author_Institution
    Corning Inc., Corning, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    19-23 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We experimentally demonstrate transmission of 40 × 112 Gb/s PM-QPSK channels over a 365 km unrepeatered span enabled by ultra-low loss fibres in an effective area-managed configuration using only backward-pumped Raman with 25 dB gain and EDFA amplification.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre networks; quadrature phase shift keying; EDFA amplification; PM-QPSK channels; backward-pumped Raman; bit rate 112 Gbit/s; gain 25 dB; size 365 km; ultra-low loss optical fibre; Bit error rate; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical noise; Signal to noise ratio; Stimulated emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Torino
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8536-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8534-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621438
  • Filename
    5621438