10.1109/68.775347
80-Gb/s transmission over 106-km standard-fiber using optical phase conjugation in a Sagnac-interferometer
Abstract
We report on 80-Gb/s transmission over 106 km of standard-fiber (D=16 ps/km/nm) using midspan spectral inversion. The optical phase conjugated signal is generated by four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). The SOA is implemented in a Sagnac-interferometer in order to achieve an efficient continuous-wave-pump suppression. Accompanying simulations show, that at 80 Gb/s, the transmission distance can hardly be enhanced due to the residual pulse broadening by second-order dispersion
- Journal Article
- doc-type:Journal Article
- light interferometers
- multiwave mixing
- optical communication equipment
- optical fibre amplifiers
- optical fibre communication
- optical fibre dispersion
- optical phase conjugation
- semiconductor optical amplifiers
- time division multiplexing
- sagnac-interferometer
- midspan spectral inversion
- optical phase conjugated signal
- four-wave mixing
- semiconductor optical amplifier
- soa
- continuous-wave-pump suppression
- transmission distance
- residual pulse broadening
- second-order dispersion
- 80 Gbit/s
- 106 km