IEEE Photonics Technology Letters · 2003 · 78 citations · 6 references
EngineeringCommunicationElectrical EngineeringOpticsOptoelectronicsPhotonicsFiber OpticsModulationOptical Communication SystemsOptical FibersOptical ModulationWave DispersionForward Error CorrectionModulation FormatsOptical Modulation FormatsOptical MultiplexingOptical Transmission SystemsReturn-to-zero SignalingSpectral EfficiencyWavelength-division Multiplexing
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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C. Rasmussen, Saurav Dey, Fenghai Liu et al. · European Conference on Optical Communication · 2002 · 21 citations