1111 km, two channel IM-DD transmission experiment at 2.5 Gb/s through 21 in-line erbium-doped fiber amplifiers

Author

Gabla, P.M. ; Frorud, J.O. ; Leclerc, E. ; Gauchard, S. ; Havard, V.

Author_Institution

Alcatel CIT, La Ville du Bois, France

Volume

4

Issue

7

fYear

1992

fDate

7/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

717

Lastpage

720

Abstract

Two-channel transmission is demonstrated in a 2.5 Gb/s intensity-modulated direct-detection system over a distance of 1111 km, using 21 in-line erbium-doped fiber amplifiers. The two channels incur virtually no penalty when they are transmitted simultaneously. Owing to the use of gain filtering in the amplifiers instead of discrete in-line optical filters, the overall bandwidth of the link is about 15 nm, for a sensitivity penalty smaller than 1 dB on one single transmitted channel.<>

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; optical communication equipment; optical links; optical modulation; 1111 km; 2.5 Gbit/s; Er-doped fiber amplifiers; IM-DD transmission experiment; gain filtering; in-line fibre amplifiers; intensity-modulated direct-detection system; optical links; overall bandwidth; sensitivity penalty; transmitted channel; two channel; Bit rate; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical saturation; Optical sensors; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.145249

Filename

145249