TY - JOUR
T1 - Lumped dispersion mapping and performance margins in existing SMF-DCF terrestrial links
AU - Bhamber, R.
AU - French, C.
AU - Turitsyn, S.K.
AU - Mezentsev, V.
AU - Forysiak, W.
AU - Nijhof, J.H.B.
PY - 2008/2/1
Y1 - 2008/2/1
N2 - We demonstrate that the transmission of 40 Gbits/s return-to-zero differential phase-shift keying (RZ-DPSK) signals is robust to lumped
dispersion mapping on a typical installed terrestrial single-mode
fiber/dispersion compensating fiber (SMF-DCF) link and will withstand,
in this case, propagation through over 800 km of SMF with zero in-line
group-velocity dispersion compensation while maintaining similar
performance to configurations with periodic mapping. We establish that
upgrading similar point-to-point links, which have lumped dispersion
maps, are compatible with 40 Gbits/s RZ-DPSK and that economic benefits
can be realized when implementing lumped dispersion mapping in new 40
Gbits/s RZ-DPSK terrestrial links, while incurring a relatively low
performance penalty. (c) 2008 Optical Society of America.
AB - We demonstrate that the transmission of 40 Gbits/s return-to-zero differential phase-shift keying (RZ-DPSK) signals is robust to lumped
dispersion mapping on a typical installed terrestrial single-mode
fiber/dispersion compensating fiber (SMF-DCF) link and will withstand,
in this case, propagation through over 800 km of SMF with zero in-line
group-velocity dispersion compensation while maintaining similar
performance to configurations with periodic mapping. We establish that
upgrading similar point-to-point links, which have lumped dispersion
maps, are compatible with 40 Gbits/s RZ-DPSK and that economic benefits
can be realized when implementing lumped dispersion mapping in new 40
Gbits/s RZ-DPSK terrestrial links, while incurring a relatively low
performance penalty. (c) 2008 Optical Society of America.
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U2 - 10.1364/JON.7.000106
DO - 10.1364/JON.7.000106
M3 - Article
SN - 1536-5379
VL - 7
SP - 106
EP - 110
JO - Journal of Optical Networking
JF - Journal of Optical Networking
IS - 2
ER -