Electronics Letters · 1991 · 65 citations · 0 references
EngineeringElectrical EngineeringDigital CommunicationFault-tolerant ComputingPerformance MeasurementError-correcting CodesFiber OpticsFiber-optic CommunicationOptical AmplifiersOptical Communication SystemsOptical FibersBit Error RateBit-error Rate AnalysisExperimental TestingFiber CharacterizationFiber Optic Communication SystemsOptical Transmission Systems
An experimental technique was developed for measuring bit error rates in multi-thousand kilometre fibre amplifier systems using a circulating loop. A transmission distance of 14,300 km at 5 Gbit/s and 21,000 km at 2.4 Gbit/s was achieved using a non-return-to-zero pseudorandom data pattern. The bit rate distance product of the 5 Gbit/s result was 71 Tbit km/s.