1-Tb/s (6 x 170.6 Gb/s) transmission over 2000-km NZDF using OTDM and RZ-DPSK format

A.H. Gnauck, G. Raybon, P. Bernasconi, Juerg Leuthold, C. R. Doerr, L.W. Stulz

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters · 2003 · 78 citations · 6 references

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Abstract

We demonstrate six-channel 160-Gb/s wavelength-division-multiplexed transmission over 20 100-km spans of nonzero-dispersion fiber, with a spectral efficiency of 0.53 b/s/Hz. We achieve this result using optical-time-division multiplexing with polarization bit interleaving and return-to-zero differential-phase-shift-keying modulation format. We also operate at 170.6 Gb/s per channel to emulate the use of forward error correction.

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