A 320 Gb/s metropolitan area ring network utilising 10 Gb/s directly modulated lasers

Author

Tomkos, Ioannis ; Hesse, Robert ; Vodhanel, Rich ; Boskovic, Aleksandra

Author_Institution

Corning Inc, Somerset, NJ, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

612

Abstract

We present excellent performance results (Q-factor>9dB) for a transparent short-reach metropolitan area ring network based on application-optimized, optical layer components and fiber. The network consists of 4 nodes interconnected by 25.5 km spans of uncompensated negative dispersion fiber (102 km ring circumference, no dispersion compensation) and supports 32 directly modulated channels operating at 10 Gb/s (320 Gb/s total capacity).

Keywords

Q-factor; metropolitan area networks; optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; semiconductor lasers; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 102 km; 25.5 km; 320 Gbit/s; Q-factor; WDM; directly modulated lasers; laser diodes; metropolitan area network; negative dispersion fiber; optical fiber network; optical layer components; ring network; uncompensated fiber; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical transmitters; Polarization mode dispersion; Ring lasers; Urban areas; WDM networks; 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.2001.989131

Filename

989131