A joint field trial on 40G transmission was conducted, where Deutsche Telekom's and NTT's R&D groups got involved. 43-Gbit/s/ch CS-RZ signals of the NTT G.709-OTN system were transmitted over selected high-PMD fiber links in DT's actual field environment. The advantage of CS-RZ modulation format was confirmed in comparison with conventional NRZ against all-order (first- and higher-order) PMD. Moreover, we introduced a new scheme for an accelerated determination of outage probability due to PMD that is adapted to practical field conditions in an operated fiber network with buried fibers and in-line operational optical elements.
At 1.3 mm the low group velocity dispersion of standard single mode fibre would appear to make this wavelength attractive for high bit rate transmission applications. The transmissions of optical solitons is one possible technique for reaching the high bit rates required in future transmission systems. A key component in such a system is the soliton laser source. This device must be both a stable and reliable source of optical pulses at a high bit rate. For this purpose a Mode-Locked Extended Cavity Laser (ML-ECL) using a Bragg reflector as wavelength selective feedback component for generation of a > 10 Gbit/s pulse stream has been developed operating at 1.7 GHz in the fundamental mode. A semiconductor laser chip, anti-reflection coated at one facet and high reflection coated at the other, was coupled with a lensed fibre grating. In comparison to bulk optical components the use of fibre based components ensured a better mechanical stability and about 50 times more output power. Additionally, the integration of the device is generally simplified To use this mode-locked laser as a pulse source for a high-bit-rate telecommunications system detailed analysis of the ultrashort optical pulse performance is important. Adjacent pulse interaction in a fibre link may be enhanced or suppressed depending on their non-linear phase behaviour during transmission. We briefly present a recently developed interferometric autocorrelator which is capable of detemiing both, the temporal width (FWHM) and the non-linear phase of optical pulses by assuming a certain intensity shape and extrapolation the phase. By comparing the autocorrelation traces with simulated data on the basis of a Gaussian intensity profile and a quadratic phase behaviour a linear chirp of about 25 ps within the FWHM of the optical pulses was found. The developed ML-ECL is a prototype of a laser source which will be utilised in transmission experiments in the project UPGRADE in the European ACTS programme. The realisation of optical soliton transmission at 1.3 pm over standard single mode optical fibres is a goal of this project. A field trial of 10 Gbit/s, SDH based, soliton transmission will be demonstrated at the CeBIT exhibition in Hannover in 1997. The techniques reported here play an important role in achieving the project objectives
Injection-locked directly current modulated semiconductor laser transmitters are theoretically investigated with respect to transmission performance. By large signal simulation of laser, standard single-mode fiber propagation and direct detection optically pre-amplified PIN receiver, transmission distances of 80-120 km at 10 Gb/s and 40-60 km at 15 Gb/s have been evaluated with a bit-error-rate < 10-9 with reasonable power penalty. Exploiting fiber nonlinearities with higher power launched into the fiber is demonstrated to increase the transmission distance by about 40%. Additionally the dynamics of the residual chirp of the laser is shown to act favorably on transmission performance. Guidelines for operation conditions of injection-locked lasers depending on detuning between laser and slave laser and injected power are given. Gain switching including optical feedback and the gain- levering effect have been investigated with respect to pulse production for optical time domain multiplexing. A new method for short pulse generation is presented. It is based on single frequency CW light injection into an unmodulated single mode laser under nonstable locking- conditions. Repetition frequencies larger than 150 GHz can be achieved. By soliton generation in a dispersion shifted fiber pulse widths of less than 3 ps FWHM with a squared hyperbolic cosecans shape can be generated.
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