40 Gbit/s field transmission over standard fibreusing midspan spectral inversion for dispersion compensation

Sze Yun Set, Roberto Girardi, Emilio Riccardi, B.-E. Olsson, M. Puleo, M. Ibsen, R.I. Laming, Peter A. Andrekson, F. Cisternino, H. Geiger

Electronics Letters · 1999 · 19 citations · 2 references

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Abstract

The first field trial using midspan spectral inversion for dispersion compensation is presented. All-fibre subsystems allow optical time-division multiplexed transmission over 140 km of standard fibre (D = 16 ps/nm/km) with polarisation dependence < 0.2 dB.

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