Title :
Best way to build the all-optical, ultra-long haul terrestrial network
Author_Institution :
Lucent Technol. Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA
fDate :
July 30 2001-Aug. 1 2001
Abstract :
Choice of the "all-optical" approach-transmission without the more customary electronic regeneration every 500 km or so-has recently been dictated by the economics of ultralong-haul, Terabit-level, dense WDM. Two key technologies, viz., dispersion-managed solitons and Raman amplification, enable the best performance in this all-optical mode. With them, it is possible to maintain optical transparency over vast geographical regions, such as that of the North American continent.
Keywords :
Raman lasers; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical solitons; telecommunication network management; wavelength division multiplexing; 500 km; North American continent; Raman amplification; all-optical mode; all-optical ultra-long haul terrestrial network; dispersion-managed solitons; electronic regeneration; optical transparency; ultralong-haul terabit-level dense WDM; vast geographical regions; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical network units; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical solitons; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Semiconductor Lasers and Applications/Ultraviolet and Blue Lasers and Their Applications/Ultralong Haul DWDM Transmission and Networking/WDM Components, 2001. Digest of the LEOS Summer Topica
Conference_Location :
Copper Mountain, CO, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7100-3
DOI :
10.1109/LEOSST.2001.941935
