Title :
Long-span optical transmission experiment over 222.8 km of commercial monomode fibre at 140 Mbit/s and 1.525 μm
Author :
Bickers, L. ; Blank, L.C. ; Walker, Stuart D.
Author_Institution :
British Telecom Research Laboratories, Ipswich, UK
Abstract :
A 140 Mbit/s optical transmission experiment has been conducted over 222.8 km of commercially available monomode, step-index fibre using a 1.525 μm ridge-waveguide DFB laser and hybrid Ge APD receiver. An overall system margin of 1.2 dB was observed after full regeneration.
Keywords :
optical cables; optical links; 140 Mbit/s; frequency 1.525 microns; hybrid Ge APD receiver; monomode fibre; optical cable; optical transmission; ridge-waveguide DFB laser; step-index fibre;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19850190
