Unrepeatered 40 Gbit/s RZ signal transmission over240 kmconventional singlemode fibre

Keisuke Suzuki, N. Ohkawa, Makoto Murakami, Kento Aida

Electronics Letters · 1998 · 22 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

The authors demonstrate 40 Gbit/s RZ signal transmission over a 240 km conventional singlemode fibre, using a time-division alternating polarisation format, a dispersion compensation fibre, and a polarisation independent receiver without an additional polariser. Alternating polarisation is compared to single polarisation for 200 km SMF transmission.

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