Experimental comparison of WDM system capacity in conventional and nonzero dispersion shifted fiber
- 1 February 1999
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
- Vol. 11 (2) , 281-283
- https://doi.org/10.1109/68.740730
Abstract
A primary consideration in designing new backbone optical network segments is the total data capacity of each fiber span. We compare the wavelength-division-multiplexed capacity of conventional single-mode fiber (SMF) and nonzero dispersion shifted fiber by measuring performance versus channel spacing in 4/spl times/80 km transmission of five 10 Gb/s channels at the nominal commercial erbium-doped fiber amplifier power specification of 9 dBm/ch. The achievable capacity is found to be more than four times greater in conventional SMF.Keywords
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