Upgrading WDM submarine systems to 40-Gbit/s channel bitrate

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 935-951

  Charlet, Gabriel ^a,b   Bigo, Sébastien ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (France)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

40 Gbit s; Optical transmission; Submarine system; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SUBMARINES; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

40 GBIT/S; SUBMARINE SYSTEM; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (WDM) CHANNELS;

WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 33947422910     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2006.873437     Document Type: Article

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