The Research on 400 Gbit/s Single-carrier Unrepeatered Ultra Long Haul Transmission

Abstract

With the continuous improvement of single carrier transmission rate, it is great challenging to increase the transmission distance in unrepeatered link. This paper demonstrates a unrepeatered transmission of single-carrier 400 Gbit/s over 501.18 km with 78.68 dB span loss using single fiber for the first time. The technology of high-order pumps, forward and backward remote optically pumped amplifier, sub-carrier frequency-division multiplexing and ultra-low & large effective area fiber are used in this experiment. The transmission wavelength, the power of the high-order pump and the location of the remote gain unit are also optimized in this work.

Keywords

• high-rate communication
• unrepeatered transmission
• high-order pump
• remote amplifier