Title :
298 Gbit/s coherent WDM transmission over 80 km of SMF at 1 bit/s/Hz spectral efficiency
Author :
Gunning, F. C Garcia ; Healy, T. ; Ellis, A.D.
Author_Institution :
Tyndall Nat. Inst., Univ. Coll. Cork, Ireland
Abstract :
This paper presents the first experimental demonstration of transmission over 80 km of SMF-28 for a 298.2 Gbit/s CoWDM system, with a spectral efficiency of 1 bit/s/Hz.
Keywords :
error statistics; light coherence; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; wavelength division multiplexing; 298 Gbit/s; 80 km; CoWDM system; SMF; SMF-28; WDM transmission; bit error rate; coherent transmission; dispersion penalty; spectral efficiency;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
