Single-wavelength 40 Gb/s soliton field transmission experiments over 400 km fibre without in-line control

Author

Brentel, J. ; Andrekson, P.A. ; Kolltveit, E. ; Olsson, B.E. ; Bakhshi, B. ; Hansryd, J. ; Hedekvist, P.O. ; Karlsson, M. ; Li, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Microelectron., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg, Sweden

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

21-26 Feb. 1999

Firstpage

121

Abstract

We report single-wavelength 40-Gbit/s soliton transmission over 400-km installed fiber lines in Sweden. Both polarization-division multiplexed and parallel solitons were transmitted. The system performance is dominated by the polarization-mode dispersion.

Keywords

optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical fibre polarisation; optical solitons; wavelength division multiplexing; 40 Gbit/s; 400 km; Gb/s soliton field transmission experiments; Sweden; in-line control; installed fiber lines; parallel solitons; polarization-division multiplexed; polarization-mode dispersion; single-wavelength; Bit error rate; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical solitons; Optical transmitters; Polarization mode dispersion;

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.1999.768082

Filename

768082