Repeaterless Transmission of Eight Channels at 10 Gb/s Over 137 km (11 Tb/s-km) of Dispersion--Shifted Fiber Using Unequal Channel Spacing

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 1994, Pages 1374-1376

  Gnauck, A H ^a   Tkach, R W ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CROSSTALK; FOUR WAVE MIXING; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; LASERS; MODULATORS; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

DISPERSION SHIFTED FIBER; EXTERNAL CAVITY LASERS; FIBER ZERO DISPERSION WAVELENGTH; OPTICAL BANDWIDTH; REPEATERLESS TRANSMISSION; UNEQUAL CHANNEL SPACING;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0028547125     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: 19410174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.334844     Document Type: Article

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