40x40.0 Gb/s RZ Transmission over 3x40 dB SSMF Spans using 27.4 dB Contra-Raman Gain and +27 dBm EDFA

Bertrand Le Guyader (1) , Sebastien Lobo (1) , Benoît Clouet (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 DWDM festons links. Indeed, we experimentally demonstrated their use in the transmission of 40 channels covering full C-band at 40.0 Gb/s over 3x40dB-loss SSMF spans using conventional RZ modulation.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Bertrand Le Guyader, Sebastien Lobo, Benoît Clouet, Fabien Merlaud, E. Gueorguiev, et al.. 40x40.0 Gb/s RZ Transmission over 3x40 dB SSMF Spans using 27.4 dB Contra-Raman Gain and +27 dBm EDFA. 30th European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC 2004), Sep 2004, Stockholm, Sweden. ⟨hal-00175377⟩