Title :
4×10 Gb/s WDM unrepeatered transmission over 525 km with third-order cascaded pumping
Author :
Labrunie, L. ; Bousselet, P. ; Karpov, V. ; Papernyi, S. ; Protopopov, V. ; Faraci, V. ; Tranvouez, N. ; Sautereau-Martin, G.
Author_Institution :
Syst. Design & Technol. Dept., Alcatel, Nozay, France
Abstract :
The first WDM unrepeatered demonstration using co-propagating distributed Raman and remotely-pumped amplification both based on third order cascaded pumping is reported. The 525 km distance achieved represents the longest unrepeatered distance ever reported at 10Gb/s.
Keywords :
distributed amplifiers; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical pumping; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbits/s; 40 Gbits/s; 525 km; WDM unrepeatered transmission; copropagating distributed Raman amplification; remotely-pumped amplification; third-order cascaded pumping;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
