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Repeaterless transmission of 40-Gbit/s OTDM signal over long legacy fibre span using unidirectional forward Raman amplification

MOUSAAB M. NAHAS1,*

Affiliation

  1. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Abstract

This paper demonstrates experimental results for 40-Gbit/s OTDM transmission over single in-line fibre span using unidirectional forward Raman amplification. The experiment uses legacy dispersion-managed SMF-DCF configuration where remote EDFAs are used to compensate for the DCF span losses. We successfully show that the transmission performance improves considerably with forward Raman pumping if we apply the appropriate signal wavelength, Raman pump power and remote EDFAs gain. As a result, repeaterless transmission over 206-km SMF is practically achieved using 1545-nm signal wavelength, 1.6-W Raman power and unsaturated Erbium gain into the DCF spans. We believe that such investigation results can be exploited to upgrade network sections that still use legacy fibres without the need for major alteration..

Keywords

Fibre-Optics, OTDM, Raman Amplification.

Citation

MOUSAAB M. NAHAS, Repeaterless transmission of 40-Gbit/s OTDM signal over long legacy fibre span using unidirectional forward Raman amplification, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 13, 11-12, November-December 2019, pp.587-591 (2019).

Submitted at: Feb. 13, 2019

Accepted at: Dec. 10, 2019