Title :
Experimental investigation of long-haul transport at 42.7-Gb/s through concatenated optical add/drop nodes
Author :
Raybon, G. ; Chandrasekhar, S. ; Gnauck, A.H. ; Zhu, B. ; Buhl, L.L.
Author_Institution :
Lucent Technol. Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We compare the single-channel transmission performance of 5 different modulation formats (NRZ, RZ, CSRZ, RZ-DPSK and CSRZ-DPSK) over a long haul network with optical add/drop multiplexers at varying node spacing.
Keywords :
differential phase shift keying; multiplexing; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; 42.7 Gbit/s; CSRZ-DPSK; NRZ; RZ-DPSK; concatenated optical nodes; long haul network; long-haul transport; modulation formats; node spacing; optical add/drop multiplexers; single-channel transmission;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2004. OFC 2004
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-772-5
