1.6 Terabit/s RZ Transmission over 4x40 dB SSMF spans using 27.4 dB Contra-Raman Gain and +26.5 dBm EDFA

Benoît Clouet (1) , Bertrand Le Guyader (1) , Sebastien Lobo (1) , Laurent Bramerie (1) , Fabien Merlaud (1) , E. Gueorguiev (2) , C. Vitre (2) , Marc Le Flohic (2) , Jean-Claude Simon (1)

1 FOTON - Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON
2 KEOPSYS

High-power EDFA seem appropriate candidates for repeated festoon links: we experimentally demonstrate their use in the full C-band transmission of 40 channels at 40.0 Gb/s over 4x40dB-loss SSMF spans using conventional RZ modulation.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Benoît Clouet, Bertrand Le Guyader, Sebastien Lobo, Laurent Bramerie, Fabien Merlaud, et al.. 1.6 Terabit/s RZ Transmission over 4x40 dB SSMF spans using 27.4 dB Contra-Raman Gain and +26.5 dBm EDFA. Optical Amplifier and their Applications (OAA 2004), Jun 2004, San Francisco (CA), United States. pp.unknowm (CD version only). ⟨hal-00193859⟩