DocumentCode
1249968
Title
80 Gbit/s-1200 km, 40 Gbit/s-based WDM transmission experiment using RZ pulse format
Author
Murakami, M. ; Suzuki, Ken-Ichi ; Kawai, Shigeaki ; Ohkawa, Naoyoshi
Author_Institution
NTT Opt. Network Syst. Labs., Kanagawa
Volume
33
Issue
9
fYear
1997
fDate
4/24/1997 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
789
Lastpage
791
Abstract
The successful two-channel WDM transmission of optically multiplexed 40 Gbit/s RZ signals with properly managed fibre dispersion is demonstrated. The dispersion dependence of the signal-to-noise-ratio for each signal channel is measured and it is found that the optimum total dispersion value including dispersion compensation fibres, is not zero but is anomalous, which is slightly smaller than the value predicted by the soliton condition with uniform dispersion
Keywords
compensation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical solitons; wavelength division multiplexing; 1200 km; 80 Gbit/s; RZ pulse format; WDM transmission experiment; dispersion compensation fibres; dispersion dependence; fibre dispersion; signal channel; signal-to-noise-ratio; soliton condition;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:19970527
Filename
590243
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