Long-haul 40 Gb/s DWDM transmission with aggregate capacities exceeding 1 Tb/s

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2247-2258

  Cai, Jin Xing ^a   Nissov, Morten ^a   Davidson, Carl R ^a   Pilipetskii, Alexei N ^a   Mohs, Georg ^a   Li, Haifeng ^a   Cai, Yi ^a   Golovchenko, Ekaterina A ^a   Lucero, Alan J ^a   Foursa, Dmitri G ^a   Bergano, Neal S ^a  

^a TYCO TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Forward error correction (FEC); High bit rate transmission; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion and nonlinearities; Optical modulation format; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ERROR CORRECTION; FIBER LASERS; LIGHT MODULATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS; HIGH BIT RATE TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL FIBER DISPERSION; OPTICAL MODULATION FORMAT;

DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 0037005339     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2002.806770     Document Type: Article

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