Colourless Self-Seeded Source for CPRI3 Mobile Fronthaul over 70 km Reach

Mathilde Gay (1) , Kamal Hussain (1) , Claude Le Bouëtté (2) , Jean-Luc Pamart (2) , Laurent Schoc (2) , Christelle Aupetit-Berthelemot (3) , Li Ao (3) , Vahid Meghdadi (3) , Romain Brenot (4) , Anaëlle Maho (5) , Philippe Chanclou (6) , Sylvain Barthomeuf (7) , Fabienne Saliou (6)

1 FOTON - Institut des Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON
2 EKINOPS
3 XLIM-SRI - Systèmes et Réseaux Intelligents
4 LPICM - Laboratoire de physique des interfaces et des couches minces [Palaiseau]
5 III-V Lab - Alcatel-Thales III-V Lab
6 Orange Labs [Lannion]
7 UNILIM - Université de Limoges

We demonstrate field trial CPRI3 error-free transmission over field fibre at 2.5 Gbit/s with DWDM self-seeded RSOAs in the O-band. The use of FEC in transponders enables to achieve 30 dB optical budget and up to 70 km reach.

Domaines: Optique / photonique

Mathilde Gay, Kamal Hussain, Claude Le Bouëtté, Jean-Luc Pamart, Laurent Schoc, et al.. Colourless Self-Seeded Source for CPRI3 Mobile Fronthaul over 70 km Reach. 43rd European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2017), Sep 2017, Gothenburg, Sweden. ⟨10.1109/ECOC.2017.8346180⟩. ⟨hal-01615563⟩