Unrepeatered DPSK transmission over 360 km SMF-28 fibre using URFL based amplification

P. Rosa, J.-D. Ania-Castañón, P. Harper

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Abstract

Unrepeatered 42.7 Gb/s per channel RZ-DPSK transmission over standard SMF-28 fibre with novel URFL based amplification using fibre Bragg gratings is investigated. OSNR and gain performance are studied experimentally and through simulations. Error free transmission for 16 channels across the full C-band with direct detection was experimentally demonstrated for 280 km span length, as well as 6-channel transmission at 340 km and single-channel transmission up to 360 km (75 dB) without employing ROPA or specialty fibres.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)9687-9692
Number of pages6
JournalOptics Express
Volume22
Issue number8
Early online date15 Apr 2014
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Apr 2014

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© 2014 Optical Society of America
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Funding: UK EPSRC Programme Grant UNLOC EP/J017582/1 and Spanish MICINN grant RAMAS, TEC2011-27314.

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