Field demonstration of distributed Raman amplification with 3.8-dB Q-Improvement for 5 × 120-km transmission

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 157-159

  Garrett, L D ^a,b   Eiselt, M ^a,c   Tkach, R W ^a,c   Dominic, V ^a,d   Waarts, R ^a,d   Giltner, D ^d   Mehuys, D ^d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Celion Networks   (United States)

^c AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^d SDL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical amplification; Raman amplification; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

FUSION-SPLICED FIBERS; RAMAN AMPLIFICATION;

AMPLIFICATION; BIT ERROR RATE; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL CABLES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; RAMAN SCATTERING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0035246545     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.910520     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. 1.6 Tb/s (40 × 40 Gb/s) transmission over 4 × 100 km nonzero dispersion shifted fiber using hybrid Raman/erbium-doped amplifiers
2. 25 GHz-spaced, 1 Tb/s (100 × 10 Gb/s) super-dense WDM transmission in the C-band over a dispersion-shifted cable employing distributed Raman amplification
3. Rayleigh scattering limitations in distributed Raman pre-amplifiers