Single-wavelength 40 Gbit/s soliton field transmission experiment over 400 km of installed fibre

Author

Kolltveit, E. ; Andrekson, P.A. ; Brentel, J. ; Olsson, B.E. ; Bakhshi, B. ; Hansryd, J. ; Hedekvist, P.O. ; Karlsson, M. ; Sunnerud, H. ; Li, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Microelectron., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg, Sweden

Volume

35

Issue

1

fYear

1999

fDate

1/7/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

75

Lastpage

76

Abstract

40 Gbit/s soliton transmission over 400 km (57 km amplifier spacing) of installed lines without in-line control has been achieved. The maximum transmission penalties for parallel polarised and polarisation division multiplexed soliton transmission were ~4 and 1 dB, respectively. The transmission distance is the longest ever reported for a field trial with a single wavelength bit rate >20 Gbit/s for any optical transmission format. The polarisation mode dispersion was numerically found to completely dominate the system performance

Keywords

optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical solitons; 40 Gbit/s; 400 km; installed fibre; optical transmission format; parallel polarised transmission; polarisation division multiplexed soliton transmission; polarisation mode dispersion; single wavelength bit rate; single-wavelength soliton field transmission; transmission distance; transmission penalties;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics Letters

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0013-5194

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/el:19990039

Filename

749233