Directly modulated AM-VSB lightwave video transmission system using dispersion-compensating fiber and three cascaded EDFAs, providing 50-dB power budget over 38 km of standard single-mode fiber

Author

Muys, W. ; van der Plaats, J.C. ; Willems, F.W. ; Vengsarkar, A.M. ; Soccolich, C.E. ; Andrejco, M.J. ; DiGiovanni, D.J. ; Peckham, D.W. ; Kosinski, S.G. ; Wysocki, P.F.

Author_Institution

AT&T Network Syst., Huizen, Netherlands

fYear

1996

fDate

25 Feb.-1 March 1996

Firstpage

198

Lastpage

199

Abstract

Summary form only given. In this paper we show that with a directly modulated transmitter in a CATV transport and distribution system with cascaded Er-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) similar power budgets and transmission distances can be achieved as in an externally modulated system, without electronic predistortion, by using dispersion compensating fiber (DCF) and carefully designed EDFAs with low gain-slope.

Keywords

amplitude modulation; cable television; compensation; erbium; fibre lasers; optical communication equipment; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; optical transmitters; television networks; 38 km; CATV transport; cascaded EDFAs; cascaded Er-doped fiber amplifiers; dB power budget; directly modulated AM-VSB lightwave video transmission system; directly modulated transmitter; dispersion compensating fiber; dispersion-compensating fiber; electronic predistortion; externally modulated system; low gain-slope; standard single-mode fiber; transmission distances; Chirp modulation; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical attenuators; Optical distortion; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber networks; Optical modulation; Optical network units; Optical transmitters; Predistortion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communications, 1996. OFC '96

Print_ISBN

1-55752-422-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1996.908220

Filename

908220