160 Gbit/s-900 km DPSK Transmission with Time-domain Optical Fourier Transformation

Conference: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication
09/16/2007 - 09/20/2007 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: ECOC 2007

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Hirooka, Toshihiko; Okazaki, Masatada; Osawa, Kou; Nakazawa, Masataka (Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, 2-1-1, Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai-shi 980-8577, Japan)

Abstract:
A straight-line 160 Gbit/s-900 km DPSK transmission was successfully demonstrated with time-domain optical Fourier transformation without employing polarization multiplexing or Raman amplification. The transmission performance was almost ASE limited due to in-line EDFAs.