High bitrate 1.3 μm optical transmission in the field using cascaded semiconductor optical amplifiers

• Published in: 11th International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fibre Communications. 23rd European Conference on Optical Communications IOOC-ECOC97 pp. 83 - 86
• Main Authors: Reid, J.J.E, Kuindersma, P.I, Cuijpers, G.P.J.M, van den Hoven, G.N, Walczyk, S, Teichmann, B, Dorschky, C, Seitz, R, Schulien, C, Cucala, L, Gruhl, H, Leppla, R, Mattheus, A
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: London IEE 1997
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Circuit properties; Communication switching; Electric, optical and optoelectronic circuits; Electronics; Exact sciences and technology; Miscellaneous; Optical and optoelectronic circuits; Optical communication; Semiconductor lasers; Systems, networks and services of telecommunications; Telecommunications; Telecommunications and information theory; Transmission and modulation (techniques and equipments); cascaded semiconductor optical amplifiers; 210 km; optical transmitters; high bitrate; 1.3 mum; SDH; synchronous digital hierarchy; lumped amplification; optical fibre networks; semiconductor optical amplifiers; semiconductor lasers; installed standard single mode fibre link; 10 Gbit/s; optical transmission; TM-64 terminal units; Gbit/s transmission field trial; Optical amplifier; Repeater; Semiconductor amplifier; Long distance; High rate transmission
• ISBN: 9780852966976; 0852966970
• ISSN: 0537-9989
• DOI: 10.1049/cp:19971372

The first results of an RZ, 10 Gbit/s transmission field trial over a 210 km installed standard single mode fibre link are reported. The link utilised lumped amplification, provided by semiconductor optical amplifiers, and newly developed synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH), TM-64 terminal units.