Title :
Mitigation of fibre nonlinearity and chromatic dispersion in 40 Gbit/s NRZ WDM transmission using a multichannel optical equalizer
Author :
Mikhailov, V. ; Doerr, C.R. ; Appathurai, S. ; Killey, R.I. ; Bayvel, P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, UK
Abstract :
We investigated the mitigation of distortion due to SPM and dispersion in 40 Gbit/s NRZ WDM transmission using a multichannel optical equalizer. We achieved 21 channel transmission at BER > 10-9 without FEC over 750 km of TWRS fibre, with 107 km amplifier span lengths.
Keywords :
error statistics; nonlinear optics; optical distortion; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; scanning probe microscopy; wavelength division multiplexing; 107 km; 40 Gbit/s; 750 km; BER; NRZ WDM transmission; SPM; TWRS fibre; amplifier span lengths; amplifier spans; channel transmission; chromatic dispersion; distortion mitigation; fibre nonlinearity mitigation; multichannel optical equalizer;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1