Title :
15,000 km fibre-optic transmission using a linear repeater
Author_Institution :
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, USA
Abstract :
Optical pulse propagation over more than 15,000 km was achieved using a re-entrant 75 km fibre loop and a non-generative repeater to balance the optical losses. At 150 Mbit/s data rate, the fibre-to-fibre gain of the repeater was 37 dB and the insertion penalty less than 0.3 dB.
Keywords :
digital communication systems; optical communication equipment; optical fibres; repeaters; 0.3 dB; 150 Mbit/s; 15000 km; 37 dB; 75 km fibre loop; fibre-optic transmission; fibre-to-fibre gain; insertion loss; linear repeater; nongenerative repeater; optical pulse propagation;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19870471
