10-Gb/s transmission of NRZ over 10 000 km and solitons over 13 500 km error-free in the same dispersion-managed system

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1412-1414

  Jacob, John M ^b,c   Golovchenko, Ekaterina A ^b   Pilipetskii, Alexei N ^b   Carter, Gary M ^a,b,c   Menyuk, Curtis R ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE

^b Baltimore County   (United States)

^c LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion management; NRZ; Solitons; Transmission systems

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; SOLITONS;

DISPERSION MANAGEMENT; NONRETURN TO ZERO (NRZ) SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0031259370     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.623280     Document Type: Article

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