• DocumentCode
    448968
  • Title

    Mitigation of fibre nonlinearity and chromatic dispersion in 40 Gbit/s NRZ WDM transmission using a multichannel optical equalizer

  • Author

    Mikhailov, V. ; Doerr, C.R. ; Appathurai, S. ; Killey, R.I. ; Bayvel, P.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, UK
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    25-29 Sept. 2005
  • Firstpage
    131
  • Abstract
    We investigated the mitigation of distortion due to SPM and dispersion in 40 Gbit/s NRZ WDM transmission using a multichannel optical equalizer. We achieved 21 channel transmission at BER > 10-9 without FEC over 750 km of TWRS fibre, with 107 km amplifier span lengths.
  • Keywords
    error statistics; nonlinear optics; optical distortion; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; scanning probe microscopy; wavelength division multiplexing; 107 km; 40 Gbit/s; 750 km; BER; NRZ WDM transmission; SPM; TWRS fibre; amplifier span lengths; amplifier spans; channel transmission; chromatic dispersion; distortion mitigation; fibre nonlinearity mitigation; multichannel optical equalizer;
  • 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
    1576159