Title :
In-service upgrade of an amplified 130-km metro CWDM transmission system using a single LOA with 140-nm bandwidth
Author :
Iannone, Pat ; Reichmann, K. ; Spiekman, L.
Author_Institution :
AT&T Labs Res., Middletown, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate a 130-km metro CWDM transmission system using a single LOA with 140-nm bandwidth. An in-service upgrade, for which one of the eight 2.5-Gb/s CWDM channels is replaced with 8×2.5-Gb/s DWDM channels, results in negligible performance degradation.
Keywords :
optical fibre amplifiers; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; wideband amplifiers; 130 km; 2.5 Gbit/s; DWDM channel; broadband linear optical amplifier; coarse wavelength-division multiplexing transmission system; in-service upgrade; Artificial intelligence; Bandwidth; Broadcasting; Clocks; Decoding; Gratings; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical pulses; Optical receivers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-746-6
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2003.1248402
