Hybrid 10/40-G transmission on a 50-GHz grid through 2800 km of SSMF and seven optical add-drops

A.H. Gnauck, Peter J. Winzer, S. Chandrasekhar

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters · 2005 · 19 citations · 8 references

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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate copolarized 42.7-Gb/s return-to-zero (RZ) differential quadrature phase-shift keying and 10.7-Gb/s RZ on-off keying wavelength-division-multiplexing transmission on a 50-GHz grid through 28 100-km spans of standard single-mode fiber in a 400-km recirculating loop. The loop contains an add-drop node on a 50-GHz channel grid.

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