40 Gbit/s transmission over 186.6 km of installed fibre using mid-span spectral inversion for dispersion compensation

Author

Nesset, D. ; Stephens, M.F.C. ; Kelly, A.E. ; Gilbertas, C. ; Reed, J. ; Williams, K.A. ; Bouchoule, S. ; Kashyap, R. ; Ellis, A.D. ; Moodie, D.G.

Author_Institution

Networks Res. Unit, BT Labs., Ipswich, UK

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

21-26 Feb. 1999

Firstpage

118

Abstract

Transmission of 40-Gbit/s data over 186.6 km of installed standard fiber has been demonstrated for the first time to our knowledge using phase conjugation by four-wave mixing in a semiconductor opitcal amplifier (SOA) for dispersion compensation.

Keywords

compensation; multiwave mixing; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical phase conjugation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 186.6 km; 40 Gbit/s; Gbit/s transmission; SOA; dispersion compensation; four-wave mixing; installed fibre; mid-span spectral inversion; phase conjugation; Fiber gratings; Laboratories; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse modulation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 1999, and the International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication. OFC/IOOC '99. Technical Digest

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-582-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1999.768081

Filename

768081