Title :
8 x 10 Gb/s DWDM transmission over 240 km of standard fiber using a cascade of semiconductor optical amplifiers
Author :
Spiekman, L.H. ; Wiesenfeld, J.M. ; Gnauck, A.H. ; Garrett, L.D. ; van den Hoven, G.N. ; van Dongen, T. ; Sander-Jochem, M.J.H. ; Binsma, J.J.M.
Author_Institution :
JDS Uniphase, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Abstract :
Eight 10-Gb/s DWDM channels spaced 200 GHz around 1565 nm are transmitted over six 40-km spans of standard SMF using five inline semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs). SOAs are also used as booster and pre-amplifier in the transmitter and receiver, so that only SOAs are used in the experiment. For all channels, bit-error-rate penalties of 0.5-1.5 dB relative to baseline have been measured, with no evidence of error-rate floors.
Keywords :
optical transmitters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 80 Gbit/s; Gb/s DWDM channels; Gb/s DWDM transmission; bit-error-rate penalties; error-rate floors; inline semiconductor optical amplifiers; optical receivers; optical transmitter; pre-amplifier; semiconductor optical amplifier cascade; standard SMF; standard fiber; Bit error rate; Crosstalk; Optical distortion; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Optical wavelength conversion; Power generation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
