Transport performance of an 80-Gb/s WDM regional area transparent ring network utilizing directly modulated lasers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 562-573

  Tomkos, Ioannis ^a,c   Hesse, Robert ^c   Madamopoulos, Nicholas ^a,b,c   Friedman, Clint ^c   Antoniades, Neophytos ^a,c   Hallock, Brad ^c   Vodhanel, Richard ^a,c   Boskovic, Aleksandra ^b,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b OSA ^*

^c Science and Technology Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Directly modulated lasers (DMLs); Dispersion; Metropolitan area optical networks; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY-LENGTH PRODUCT; DIRECTLY MODULATED LASERS; METROPOLITAN AREA OPTICAL NETWORKS; NEGATIVE DISPERSION FIBER;

BIT ERROR RATE; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); LASER APPLICATIONS; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; OPTICAL FIBERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0036542644     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.996575     Document Type: Article

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