Title :
Electronic equalization and FEC enable bidirectional CWDM capacities of 9.6 Tb/s-km
Author :
Winzer, P.J. ; Fidler, F. ; Matthews, M.J. ; Nelson, L.E. ; Chandrasekhar, S. ; Buhl, L.L. ; Winter, M. ; Castagnozzi, D.
Author_Institution :
Lucent Technol. Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
Using electronic equalization to combat chromatic dispersion and forward error correction (FEC) to increase robustness to in-band crosstalk, we demonstrate CWDM capacities of 32/spl times/10 Gb/s (2/spl times/16, full-duplex) over >30 km of low-water-peak standard single-mode fiber.
Keywords :
forward error correction; optical crosstalk; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 9.6 Tbit/s; FEC; bidirectional CWDM capacity; combat chromatic dispersion; electronic equalization; forward error correction; in-band crosstalk; low-water-peak standard single-mode fiber;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2004. OFC 2004
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-772-5
