DocumentCode
399033
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
fYear
2003
fDate
23-28 March 2003
Firstpage
548
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
Print_ISBN
1-55752-746-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/OFC.2003.1248402
Filename
1248402
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