Author :
Cai, J.-X. ; Foursa, D.G. ; Liu, L. ; Davidson, C.R. ; Cai, Y. ; Patterson, W.W. ; Lucero, A.J. ; Bakhshi, B. ; Mohs, G. ; Corbett, P.C. ; Gupta, V. ; Anderson, W. ; Vaa, M. ; Domagala, G. ; Mazurczyk, M. ; Li, H. ; Nissov, M. ; Pilipetskii, A.N. ; Bergan
Author_Institution :
Tyco Telecommun., Eatontown, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We successfully conducted a 96/spl times/10 Gb/s RZ-DPSK field trial over an installed 13,100 km optical undersea path with more than 3 dB FEC margin, including channels with >13,000 ps/nm dispersion. The performance was further improved 1-2 dB by adding prechirp.