Undersea fiberoptic cable systems: High-tech telecommunications tempered by a century of ocean cable experience

Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 20-25

  Bergano, Neal S ^a  

^a TYCO TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BANDWIDTH; FIBER LASERS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS (EDFA);

OPTICAL CABLES;

EID: 0034161189     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPN.11.3.000020     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. Bern Dibner, The Atlantic Cable (Burndy Library, Norwalk, CT, 1959).
2. R.D. Ehrbar, "Undersea Cables for Telephony," Chapter 1 in Undersea Lightwave Communications, Peter K. Runge and Patrick R. Trischitta, eds. IEEE Press 1986.
3. P. Trischitta, et al., "The TAT-12/13 Cable Network," IEEE Communications Magazine, 34, 24, No. 2, February 1996.
4. F. Forghieri, et al., "Fiber Nonlinearities and Their Impact on Transmission Systems," Chapter 8 in Optical Fiber Telecommunications IIIA, Ivan P. Kaminow and Thomas L. Koch, eds., Academic Press 1997.
5. Neal S. Bergano, et al., "320 Gb/s WDM transmission (64×5 Gb/s) over 7,200 km using large mode fiber spans and chirped return-to-zero signals," OFC'98, paper PD12, San Jose, CA, Feb. 1998.