Enhancing optical communications with brand new fibers

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Morioka, Toshio ^a   Awaji, Yoshinari ^b   Ryf, Roland ^c   Winzer, Peter ^c   Richardson, David ^d   Poletti, Francesco ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF FREEDOM; FIBER CAPACITY; FIBER FUSE EFFECTS; FUNDAMENTAL LIMITS; INFORMATION SOCIETY; OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; OPTICAL FIBER NONLINEARITY; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SHANNON LIMIT; SINGLE-MODE OPTICAL FIBER; SPATIAL DOMAINS; TRAFFIC GROWTH; TRANSMISSION MEDIUM;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

FIBERS;

EID: 84857491997     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2012.6146483     Document Type: Review

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