Demonstration of a 90 Tb/s, 234.8 km, C+L band unrepeatered SSMF link with bidirectional Raman amplification

Opt Express. 2022 Apr 11;30(8):13114-13120. doi: 10.1364/OE.451948.

Abstract

This work demonstrates the use of bidirectional Raman amplification to achieve an unrepeatered 234 km link using standard single mode fibers and with a capacity×distance product of 21.132 Pb/s·km. A throughput above 90 Tb/s is achieved with an 87 nm wavelength-division multiplexed signal carrying 424 PDM-64QAM signals at 24.5 GBaud across C and L bands. Transmission is supported using up to 12 Raman pumps per propagation direction, covering a wavelength range between 1410.8 nm and 1502.7 nm and with total power under 2.6 W.