Wavelength division multiplexing in long-haul transmission systems

Author

Bergano, Neal S.

Author_Institution

Submarine Syst. Internat. Labs., AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

10-13 Nov 1997

Firstpage

171

Abstract

The erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) has had a profound impact on the design, operation and performance of transoceanic cable transmission, and is central to the expected proliferation of cable systems. Important strides have been made in areas of dispersion management, gain equalization, modulation formats and polarization scrambling which have made possible the demonstration of large data transmission capacity. In this paper we review the recent advances in these techniques, and report a transoceanic length transmission experiment with 160 Gb/s total capacity

Keywords

light polarisation; optical cables; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; submarine cables; wavelength division multiplexing; 160 Gbit/s; Er-doped fiber amplifier; dispersion management; gain equalization; large data transmission capacity; long-haul transmission systems; modulation formats; polarization scrambling; total capacity; transoceanic cable transmission; transoceanic length transmission experiment; wavelength division multiplexing; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical pumping; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1997. LEOS '97 10th Annual Meeting. Conference Proceedings., IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3895-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1997.630572

Filename

630572