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Performance Comparison of SSMF and UltraWave Fibers for Ultra-Long-Haul 40-Gb/s WDM Transmission

Yves JaouënSergei K. TuritsynErwan PinceminJ.d. Ania-castanonAlessandro TonelloA. TanL. Gruner-nielsenStefan WabnitzVladimir Mezentsev

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PhysicsWdm transmissionmodulation formatsoptical communicationsAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsElectronic Optical and Magnetic MaterialsUltrawaveTransmission (telecommunications)Performance comparisonElectronic engineeringOptical fibersElectrical and Electronic Engineeringmodulation formats; optical communications; Optical fibersCommunication channel

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International audience; We experimentally compare the performance of standard single-mode fiber (SSMF) and UltraWave fiber (UWF) for ultra-long-haul (ULH) 40-Gb/s wavelength-division-multiplexing transmissions. We used the carrier-suppressed return-to-zero amplitude-shift-keying (CSRZ-ASK) and the carrier-suppressed return-to-zero differential-phase-shift-keying (CSRZ-DPSK) formats, which are particularly well-adapted to 40-Gb/s pulse-overlapped propagation. We demonstrate that transmission distance well beyond 2000 km can be reached on UWF with both the CSRZ-ASK and CSRZ-DPSK formats, or on SSMF with the CSRZ-DPSK format only, thus indicating that SSMF-based infrastructure of incumbent carriers can be upgraded at 40-Gb/s channel rates to ULH distances.

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2007-01-01
http://hdl.handle.net/11379/23275