80 Gbit/s single wavelength soliton transmissionover 172 km installed fibre

Jonás Hansryd, B. Bakhshi, B.-E. Olsson, J. Brentel, E. Kolltveit

Electronics Letters · 1999 · 16 citations · 7 references

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Abstract

Single wavelength soliton transmission at 80 Gbit/s has been successfully performed over 172 km of installed fibre, using part of a commercial metropolitan optical network in Jönköping, Sweden. Soliton data with pulsewidths of 4.5 ps were successfully transmitted with an average power penalty for all eight time-division-multiplexed channels of 1.3 dB.

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