Best way to build the all-optical, ultra-long haul terrestrial network

Author

Mollenauer, L.

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol. Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

July 30 2001-Aug. 1 2001

Abstract

Choice of the "all-optical" approach-transmission without the more customary electronic regeneration every 500 km or so-has recently been dictated by the economics of ultralong-haul, Terabit-level, dense WDM. Two key technologies, viz., dispersion-managed solitons and Raman amplification, enable the best performance in this all-optical mode. With them, it is possible to maintain optical transparency over vast geographical regions, such as that of the North American continent.

Keywords

Raman lasers; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical solitons; telecommunication network management; wavelength division multiplexing; 500 km; North American continent; Raman amplification; all-optical mode; all-optical ultra-long haul terrestrial network; dispersion-managed solitons; electronic regeneration; optical transparency; ultralong-haul terabit-level dense WDM; vast geographical regions; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical network units; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical solitons; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Semiconductor Lasers and Applications/Ultraviolet and Blue Lasers and Their Applications/Ultralong Haul DWDM Transmission and Networking/WDM Components, 2001. Digest of the LEOS Summer Topica

Conference_Location

Copper Mountain, CO, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7100-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOSST.2001.941935

Filename

941935