640 Gb/s transmission of sixty-four 10 Gb/s WDM channels over 7200 km with 0.33 (bits/s)/Hz spectral efficiency

Neal S. Bergano, Carl Davidson, C.J. Chen, B. Pedersen, M.A. Mills, N. Ramanujam, H.D. Kidorf, A. Puc, M. D. Levonas, Hala Abdelkader

2003 · 29 citations · 13 references

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Abstract

Sixty-four 10 gb/s WDM channels were transmitted over 7200 km is a spectral bandwidth of 15.1 nm for a spectral efficiency of 0.33 (bits/s)Hz. Error free operation was achieved for all channels.

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