Digital Equalisation of 40Gbit/s per Wavelength Transmission over 2480km of Standard Fibre without Optical Dispersion Compensation

Seb J. Savory, Alexander Stewart, S.L. Wood, G. Gavioli, Michael G. Taylor, R.I. Killey, Polina Bayvel

2006 · 47 citations · 4 references

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Abstract

We demonstrate transmission and demodulation of 40Gbit/s per wavelength data, using 10Gbaud polarisation multiplexed QPSK. The digital coherent receiver includes carrier recovery and equalisation of all linear impairments, including chromatic dispersion and polarisation mode dispersion.

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