Study of EDFA and Raman system transmission reach with 256 Gb/s PM-16QAM signals over three optical fibers with 100 km spans
| Autor: | Jason Hurley, John D. Downie, Chris Towery, Sergey Ten, Dragan Pikula |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Multi-mode optical fiber
Optical fiber Raman amplification Materials science Amplifiers Electronic business.industry Equipment Design Spectrum Analysis Raman Graded-index fiber Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics law.invention Equipment Failure Analysis Optics law Wavelength-division multiplexing Telecommunications Dispersion-shifted fiber Fiber Plastic optical fiber business Microwaves Optical Fibers |
| Zdroj: | Optics express. 21(14) |
| ISSN: | 1094-4087 |
| Popis: | We compare the transmission performance of three different optical fibers in separate 256 Gb/s PM-16QAM systems amplified with erbium doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) and distributed Raman amplification. The span length in each system is 100 km. The fibers studied include standard single-mode fiber, single-mode fiber with ultra-low loss, and ultra-low loss fiber with large effective area. We find that the single-mode fiber with ultra-low loss and the large effective area fiber with ultra-low loss afford reach advantages of up to about 31% and 80%, respectively, over standard fiber measured at distances with 3 dB margin over the forward error correction (FEC) threshold. The Raman amplified systems provide about 50% reach length enhancement over the EDFA systems for all three fibers in the experimental set-up. For the best performing fiber with large effective area and ultra-low loss, the absolute reach lengths with 3 dB margin are greater than 1140 km and 1700 km for the for EDFA and Raman systems, respectively. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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