Title :
Demonstration of 264,000 km, 10 Gb/s Field Fiber Transmission using 1,000 Cascaded All-optical 3R Regeneration Stages
Author :
Zhu, Zuqing ; Pan, Zhong ; Funabashil, Masaki ; Xiang, Bo ; Yool, S.J.B. ; Paraschis, Loukas ; Harris, David L.
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate 10-Gb/s, error-free transmission over 264,000-km field fiber with 1,000 optical 3R regeneration stages using all-optical clock recovery. Experimental results show only 1.5-dB power penalty at BER 10-9 after 264,000-km transmission.
Keywords :
Clocks; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical sensors; Repeaters; Signal to noise ratio; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications, 2006. ECOC 2006. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes, France
Print_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2006.4801315
