Title :
500 km WDM 12×10 Gbit/s CRZ repeaterless transmission using second order remote amplification
Author :
Labrunie, L. ; Boubal, F. ; Roux, P. Le ; Brandon, E.
Author_Institution :
Alcatel, Nozay, France
Abstract :
Unrepeatered transmission of 12 channels at 10 Gbit/s over a record distance of 500 km is demonstrated taking advantage of ultra-large effective area fibre combined with a novel remote amplification scheme.
Keywords :
amplification; digital communication; error statistics; optical fibre communication; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 500 km; BER; CRZ repeaterless transmission; WDM; bit error rate; high-power booster; in-line Raman noise filtering; remotely pumped amplification; second order distributed Raman amplification; second order remote amplification; span length; ultra-large effective area fibre; unrepeatered transmission;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20030876
