Title :
System impact of fibre repairs on a N×40 Gbit/s all-Raman amplified submarine transmission
Author :
Charlet, G. ; Tran, P. ; Bigo, S.
Author_Institution :
Alcatel Res. & Innovation, Marcoussis, France
Abstract :
The consequences of fibre repairs on the system performance of N×40 Gbit/s submarine links are emulated in a recirculating loop. After adjustment of the cumulated dispersion, no more than 1.5 dB Q-factor penalty is found.
Keywords :
Q-factor; Raman lasers; optical cables; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre dispersion; submarine cables; 40 Gbit/s; Q-factor penalty; all-Raman amplified submarine transmission; cumulated dispersion adjustment; fibre repairs; submarine cables; submarine links; system performance;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
