RACE 1051: demonstration of a multigigabit technology for provision of digital video services

Author

Heidemann, Rolf ; Bambach, Wolfgang ; Schlechte, Rolf ; Hein, Bemhard ; Nordby, Rasmus ; Alcalde, Ignacio ; Uzunoglu, Nikolaos K. ; Rocha, Jose Ferreira da

Author_Institution

Alcatel SEL AG, Stuttgart, Germany

fYear

1993

fDate

34106

Firstpage

42461

Lastpage

42465

Abstract

Within the RACE project 1051 `Multigigabit Transmission in the IBCN Subscriber Loop´ the major technologies for 5 and 10 Gbit/s fibre-optic transmission systems have been developed and tested in system demonstrators. Components and building blocks for all system functions such as multiplexer, laser driver, receiver preamplifier, main amplifier, regenerator and demultiplexer/channel selector have been realized in the form of Sil bipolar chips for both bit rates. Integrated transmitter and receiver modules have been built around advanced optoelectronic components. With a cascade of four optical amplifiers it was possible to bridge a budget of 100 dB at 10 Gbit/s without applying optical filters. This means that more than eight million customers can be supplied by only one optical transmitter

Keywords

broadband networks; optical communication equipment; optical links; subscriber loops; time division multiplexing; video signals; 10 Gbit/s; 5 Gbit/s; IBCN Subscriber Loop; RACE 1051; demultiplexer/channel selector; digital video services; fibre-optic transmission systems; laser driver; main amplifier; multigigabit technology; multiplexer; optical amplifiers; optical transmitter; optoelectronic components; receiver modules; receiver preamplifier; regenerator; system demonstrators; technologies; transmitter modules;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

RACE Optical Systems and Demonstrators, IEE Colloquium on

Conference_Location

London

Type

conf

Filename

243208