CAPACITY UPGRADES OF TRANSMISSION-SYSTEMS BY RAMAN AMPLIFICATION

Authors
HANSEN PB ESKILDSEN L GRUBB SG STENTZ AJ STRASSER TA JUDKINS J DEMARCO JJ PEDRAZZANI R DIGIOVANNI DJ
Citation
Pb. Hansen et al., CAPACITY UPGRADES OF TRANSMISSION-SYSTEMS BY RAMAN AMPLIFICATION, IEEE photonics technology letters, 9(2), 1997, pp. 262-264
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Optics,"Physics, Applied
Journal title
IEEE photonics technology letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
10411135
Volume
9
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
262 - 264
Database
ISI
SICI code
1041-1135(1997)9:2<262:CUOTBR>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
Raman amplification is added to a transmission system to provide an in crease in power budget allowing for a four-fold upgrade in capacity ei ther by TDM or WDM. Here, a TDM upgrade from 2.5 to 10 Gb/s and a WDM upgrade from a single 10 Gb/s channel to four channels of 10 Gb/s each were experimentally verified with an improvement in the power budget of 7.4 dB, Raman gain is an attractive upgrade method for installed sy stems requiring no changes to the fiber span.