Phase-sensitive amplifier link with distributed Raman amplification
Journal article, 2018

We demonstrate long-haul transmission using a hybrid amplifier approach combining distributed Raman amplification and lumped phase-sensitive amplification. Aside from the well-known resulting SNR improvement, distributed Raman amplification is included in an effort to improve the nonlinearity mitigation capability of the phase-sensitive amplifiers. When changing from phase-insensitive operation to phase-sensitive operation in a link employing distributed Raman amplification, the transmission reach at BER = 10−3is increased from 15 to 44 spans of length 81 km while simultaneously increasing the optimal launch power by 2 dB.

Author

Henrik Eliasson

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

Kovendhan Vijayan

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

Benjamin Foo

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

Samuel L I Olsson

Nokia

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

E. Astra

Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech)

Magnus Karlsson

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

Peter Andrekson

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

Optics Express

1094-4087 (ISSN) 10944087 (eISSN)

Vol. 26 16 19854-19863

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

Nano Technology

Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

DOI

10.1364/OE.26.019854

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