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Design of multi-terabit/s terrestrial transmission systems facilitated by simple analytical tools

La conception des systèmes wdm multi-térabit/s terrestres simplifiée grâce à de simples outils analytiques

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For 30 years, the capacity distance product of lightwave communication systems has continuously doubled every 16 months, to reach more than 10 Pbit/s.km in 2002. Along with this growth, the complexity of system engineering has increased as linear and nonlinear transmission impairments have become more stringent. Dispersion management is widely accepted as a powerful technique to mitigate some of them, but requires numerous experiments or time-consuming numerical simulations to be performed optimally. We exhibit two analytical rules that provide meaningful insight on this matter. Then we show how these rules helped us to improve the transmission distance of a recent 5 Tbit/s transmission experiment from 1,200 km to 1,500 km.

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Depuis 30 ans, le produit capacité distance des systèmes de communication optiques a doublé tous les 16 mois. En 2002, il atteignait 10 Pbit/s.km. Parallèlement à cette croissance, l’ingénierie des systèmes est devenue plus complexe du fait de l’impact des effets de propagation linéaires et non-linéaires. La technique de gestion de la dispersion est devenue incontournable mais son optimisation nécessite de nombreuses expériences de validation ou des simulations numériques très gourmandes en puissance de calcul. L’article propose deux règles analytiques pour la mise en place de cette technique et montre comment ces règles ont permis d’aboutir à une expérience récente de transmission à des débits de 5 Tbit/s sur des distances de 1200 à 1500 km.

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    Sébastien Bigo, Yann Frignac, Jean -Christophe Antona & Gabriel Charlet

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Bigo, S., Frignac, Y., Antona, J.C. et al. Design of multi-terabit/s terrestrial transmission systems facilitated by simple analytical tools. Ann. Télécommun. 58, 1757–1784 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03001225

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