Title :
Straight-line soliton data transmissions over 2000 km at 20 Gbit/s and 1000 km at 40 Gbit/s using erbium-doped fibre amplifiers
Author :
Nakazawa, Masataka ; Suzuki, Kenji ; Yamada, Eiji ; Kubota, Hajime ; Kimura, Yuichi
Author_Institution :
NTT Telecommun. Field Syst. R&D Centre, Opt. Transmission Line Lab., Ibaraki, Japan
Abstract :
Soliton data signals at 20 and 40 Gbit/s have been successfully transmitted over 2000 and 1000 km, respectively, by using erbium-doped fibre amplifiers. Bit error rates of below 10-10 were obtained with 223-1 pseudorandom patterns. 40 Tbit/s km is the highest value yet reported in a straight-line soliton transmission experiment.
Keywords :
data communication systems; erbium; fibre lasers; optical links; optical solitons; 1000 km; 20 Gbit/s; 2000 km; 40 Gbit/s; Er 3+-doped fibre; bit error rates; pseudorandom patterns; soliton data transmissions; straight-line soliton transmission;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19930985