Title :
Field transmission over standard fibre at 40 Gbit/s using midspan spectral inversion
Author :
Set, S.Y. ; Girardi, R. ; Riccardi, E. ; Olsson, B.E. ; Puleo, M. ; Ibsen, M. ; Laming, R.I. ; Andrekson, P.A. ; Cisternino, F. ; Geiger, H.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK
Abstract :
The first field trial using midspan spectral inversion for dispersion compensation is presented. All-fibre subsystems allow optical time-division multiplexed transmission over 140 km of standard fibre (D=16 ps/(nm·km)) with polarisation dependence below 0.2 dB
Keywords :
compensation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; time division multiplexing; 140 km; 40 Gbit/s; Gbit/s; all-fibre subsystems; dispersion compensation; field transmission; field trial; midspan spectral inversion; optical time-division multiplexed transmission; polarisation dependence; standard fibre; Clocks; Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Inverters; Laboratories; Mirrors; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Pulse modulation; Ring lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 1998. 24th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Madrid
Print_ISBN :
84-89900-14-0
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.1998.731209
