Title :
20 Gbit/s, 1020 km penalty-free soliton data transmission using erbium-doped fibre amplifiers
Author :
Nakazawa, M. ; Suzuki, K. ; Yamada, E.
Author_Institution :
Nonlinear Optical Transmission Media Res. Group, NTT Optical Transmission Line Lab., Ibaraki, Japan
fDate :
5/21/1992 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Optical soliton data signals at 20 Gbit/s have been successfully transmitted for the first time over a 1020 km-long dispersion-shifted fibre. Erbium-doped fibre amplifiers were installed as optical 1R repeaters at every 50 km. A bit error rate of below 10-12 was obtained with 223-1 pseudorandom patterns under a penalty-free condition.
Keywords :
data communication systems; digital communication systems; error statistics; fibre lasers; laser beam applications; optical links; repeaters; solitons; 1020 km; 20 Gbit/s; BER; Er doped optical fibre; bit error rate; dispersion-shifted fibre; fibre amplifiers; fibre optic links; optical 1R repeaters; penalty-free condition; pseudorandom patterns; soliton data transmission;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19920663