1-Tb/s DWDM long-haul transmission employing a fiber optical parametric amplifier

Nayla El Dahdah, Donald S. Govan, Mehdi Jamshidifar, Nick J. Doran, Michel E. Marhic

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    Abstract

    In this letter, we report the performance of a fiber optical parametric amplifier (OPA) when used as a source or intermediate node amplifier in a dense wavelength-division-multiplexed (DWDM) long-haul transmission testbed with 26 DWDM channels modulated at 43.7-Gb/s return-to-zero differential phase-shift keying. In both scenarios, we demonstrate similar performance to an erbium-doped fiber amplifier. This shows the OPAs compatibility with high-capacity (>1 Tb/s) long-haul communication systems.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1171-1173
    Number of pages3
    JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
    Volume22
    Issue number15
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Aug 2010

    Keywords

    • crosstalk
    • optical parametric amplifiers
    • optical fiber transmission
    • dense wavelength-division multiplexing

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