Submerged plant equipment

Abstract This chapter reviews the submerged plant equipment used in undersea communications systems. The focus is on the repeaters and branching units used to construct systems with optical add drop capabilities. Important topics in mechanical design of the repeaters, cables, and joints are discussed as well as issues impacting reliability.

[1]  A. Pilipetskii,et al.  Power-efficient 100 Gb/s transmission over transoceanic distance using 8-dimensional coded modulation , 2015, 2015 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC).

[2]  Hongbin Zhang,et al.  BICM coded modulation and 4D modulation for long-haul optical transmission system , 2013, 2013 IEEE Photonics Conference.

[3]  Arlee V. Smith,et al.  Nanosecond laser-induced breakdown in pure and Yb3+-doped fused silica , 2007, SPIE Laser Damage.

[4]  Bruce Nyman.  Flexibility in submarine fiber optic networks [invited] , 2015, IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking.

[5]  Herve Fevrier,et al.  Raman Amplification for Ultra-Large Bandwidth and Ultra-High Bit Rate Submarine and Terrestrial Long-Haul WDM Transmission , 2014, 2014 Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP).

[6]  A. Pilipetskii,et al.  64QAM based coded modulation transmission over transoceanic distance with > 60 Tb/s capacity , 2015, 2015 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC).

[7]  Hongbin Zhang,et al.  Nonlinearity mitigation with spectral shaping for channel spacing greater than Nyquist , 2014, OFC 2014.

[8]  Itsuro Morita.  Long-distance and high-capacity transmission with multicore fiber , 2013, 2013 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series.

[9]  M. Murakami,et al.  A remote supervisory system based on subcarrier overmodulation for submarine optical amplifier systems , 1996 .

[10]  Bruce Nyman.  Flexibility in submarine fiber optic networks , 2014, OFC 2014.