Investigation of cascadability and optimum inter-regenerator spacing in transmission with all-optical 3R regeneration

Author

Gavioli, Giancarlo ; Mikhailov, Vitaly ; Thomsen, Benn ; Bayvel, Polina

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London

Volume

1

fYear

2005

fDate

27-27 May 2005

Firstpage

297

Lastpage

299

Abstract

Transmission with cascaded all-optical 3R regeneration is reported using a reconfigurable fibre loop to investigate, for the first time, the impact of varying the inter-regenerator spacing on long distance transmission. Error-free transmission at 10 Gb/s over 20000 km of standard single-mode fibre was achieved with inter-regenerator spacing range of 150-600 km, corresponding to an OSNR range of 30-23 dB/0.1 nm at the regenerator input

Keywords

optical fibre communication; optical repeaters; 10 Gbit/s; 20000 km; OSNR range; cascaded all-optical 3R regeneration; error-free transmission; long distance transmission; optimum inter-regenerator spacing; reconfigurable fibre loop; standard single-mode fibre; High speed optical techniques; Optical distortion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical noise; Optical transmitters; Optical wavelength conversion; Repeaters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

1-55752-795-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2005.201757

Filename

1572823