A field demonstration of 20-Gb/s capacity transmission over 360 km of installed standard (non-DSF) fiber

Author

Park, Y.K. ; Yeates, P.D. ; Delavaux, J.-M.P. ; Mizuhara, O. ; Nguyen, T.V. ; Tzeng, L.D. ; Tench, R.E. ; Hakki, B.W. ; Chen, C.D. ; Nuyts, R.J. ; Ogawa, K.

Author_Institution

AT&T Bell Labs., Breinigsville, PA, USA

Volume

7

Issue

7

fYear

1995

fDate

7/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

816

Lastpage

818

Abstract

We report a field demonstration of 20 Gb/s capacity transmission over a 360-km installed "standard" fiber cable. The system consisted of two 10-Gb/s channels with wavelengths ranging between 1552 and 1558 nm and optical repeaters separated by 120 km. A robust system hardware design and new compact optical repeaters enabled us to achieve "error-free" operation over five consecutive days in the field environment. The wavelength crosstalk and unequal dispersion compensation between the two channels had a negligible effect on the system performance. The result clearly demonstrates that both loss and dispersion of the embedded "standard" fiber can be overcome in multi-channel long-haul transmission systems with 10 Gb/s OC192/STM64 line-rate.<>

Keywords

compensation; optical cables; optical crosstalk; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; optical repeaters; 10 Gbit/s; 120 km; 1552 nm; 1558 nm; 20 Gbit/s; 20-Gb/s capacity transmission; 360 km; SONET; compact optical repeaters; embedded standard fiber dispersion; error-free operation; field environment; installed standard non-DSF fiber; line-rate; multi-channel long-haul transmission systems; optical fibre losses; optical repeaters; robust system hardware design; system performance; unequal dispersion compensation; wavelength crosstalk; Dispersion; Hardware; Optical crosstalk; Optical design; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber losses; Propagation losses; Repeaters; Robustness; System performance;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.393216

Filename

393216