80×224 Gb/s Unrepeated Transmission over 240 km of Large-Aeff Pure Silica Core Fibre without Remote Optical Pre-amplifier

Shoichiro Oda, Takahito Tanimura, Yinwen Cao, Takeshi Hoshida, Yuichi Akiyama, Hisao Nakashima, Chihiro Ohshima, Kyosuke Sone, Yasuhiko Aoki, Meng Qi Yan,

2011 · 17 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

We demonstrate the record capacity of 16 Tb/s unrepeated transmission over 240 km of large-Aeff fibre without remote optical pre-amplifier using 50 GHz-spaced 224 Gb/s DP-16QAM, corresponding to record capacity-distance product of 3.84 Pb/s·km.