• DocumentCode
    450174
  • Title

    151 × 43 Gb/s transmission over 4080 km based on return-to-zero-differential quadrature phase-shift keying

  • Author

    Charlet, Gabriel ; Tran, P. ; Mardoyan, H. ; Lefrançois, M. ; Fauconnier, T. ; Jorge, F. ; Bigo, S.

  • Author_Institution
    Alcatel Res. & Innovation, Marcoussis, France
  • Volume
    6
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    25-29 Sept. 2005
  • Firstpage
    5
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a record distance with N × 43 Gb/s RZ-DQPSK modulated channels. More than 1.5 dB margin is measured for all 151 WDM, 50 GHz-spaced channels at the end of the system, based on 70 nm-wide Raman repeaters.
  • Keywords
    Raman spectra; channel spacing; differential phase shift keying; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; optical repeaters; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; 4080 km; 43 Gbit/s; 50 GHz; 6493 Gbit/s; 70 nm; Gb/s transmission; RZ-DQPSK; Raman repeaters; WDM; channel modulation; channel spacing; return-to-zero-differential quadrature phase-shift keying;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    IET
  • ISSN
    0537-9989
  • Print_ISBN
    0-86341-543-1
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1584150