Soliton transmission at 20 Gbit/s over2 000 km in Tokyo metropolitan optical network
- 17 August 1995
- journal article
- Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters
- Vol. 31 (17) , 1478-1479
- https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19950967
Abstract
Experimental field transmissions of solitons at 20 Gbit/s over 2 000 km have been successfully demonstrated using part of the Tokyo metropolitan optical network consisting of conventional dispersion-shifted fibre cables. The soliton pulse width was 10 ps and a polarisation-insensitive MQW electroabsorption modulator was used for demultiplexing. The power penalty at a BER of 10-10 was ~3.5 dB.Keywords
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