Title :
Raman-pumped dispersion compensating fiber amplifiers for terminal-only compensation of 6×80 km, 10 Gb/s WDM transmission
Author :
Nelson, L.E. ; Joergensen, C.G. ; Du, M. ; Loadhoit, T. ; Peckham, D.
Author_Institution :
OFS Labs., Somerset, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We investigate application of booster and preamplifier dispersion-compensating Raman amplifiers as the only dispersion compensation for a typical 6×80 km, 10-Gb/s WDM metro link over standard single-mode fiber and compare performance to optimal inline compensation.
Keywords :
Raman lasers; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical pumping; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbits/s; 480 km; 80 km; Raman-pumped dispersion compensation; WDM metro link; WDM transmission; booster Raman amplifier; fiber amplifiers; preamplifier; terminal-only compensation;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
