Title :
1700 km transmission at 40 Gbit/s with 100 km amplifier spacing enabled by higher-order-mode dispersion compensation
Author :
Ramachandran, S. ; Raybon, G. ; Mikkelsen, B. ; Yan, M. ; Cowsar, L. ; Essiambre, R.-J.
Author_Institution :
Lucent Technol. Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA
fDate :
10/25/2001 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Transmission at 40 Gbit/s over 1700 km of non-zero dispersion fibre with 100 km amplifier spacing is reported for the first time. The demonstration is enabled by an all-fibre higher-order-mode dispersion-compensating module (HOM-DCM) and distributed Raman amplification
Keywords :
compensation; digital communication; error statistics; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; 100 km; 1700 km; 40 Gbit/s; BER; amplifier spacing; bit error rate; dispersion-compensating module; distributed Raman amplification; higher-order-mode dispersion compensation; long-haul transmission; nonzero dispersion fibre;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20010907
