1.6-Tb/s (160 x 10.7 Gb/s) transmission over 4000 km of nonzero dispersion fiber at 25-GHz channel spacing

Author

Leng, L. ; Stulz, S. ; Zhu, B. ; Nelson, L.E. ; Edvold, B. ; Gruner-Nielsen, L. ; Radic, S. ; Centanni, J. ; Gnauck, A.

Author_Institution

OFS, Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

15

Issue

8

fYear

2003

Firstpage

1153

Lastpage

1155

Abstract

We report transmission of 1.6 Tb/s (160/spl times/10.7 Gb/s) over 4000 km of nonzero dispersion fiber at 25-GHz channel spacing using 100-km amplified spans. Without polarization interleaving and per-channel post dispersion compensation, all channels have better than 1/spl times/10/sup -4/ bit-error rate, corresponding to error-free performance with forward-error-correction. We present experimental investigation on the transmission impairments and identify potential approaches for performance improvement.

Keywords

Raman lasers; compensation; forward error correction; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre dispersion; optical transmitters; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; 1.6 Tbit/s; 100 km; 4000 km; Raman amplification; Raman lasers; WDM transmission; amplified spans; bit-error rate; channel spacing; error-free performance; fiber nonlinearities; forward-error-correction; nonzero dispersion fiber; optical fibre amplifiers; per-channel post dispersion compensation; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Channel spacing; Dispersion; Distributed feedback devices; Optical fiber polarization; Optical modulation; Optical noise; Optical transmitters; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2003.815323

Filename

1215534