Abstract
We report the first successful use of quantum well laser amplifiers in the transmission, at 1300 nm, of a 6.5 Gbit/s soliton signal over 250 km of standard single mode optical fibre with a repeater spacing of 50 km. The amplifiers exhibit a small signal, fibre to fibre, gain of 25 dB (saturation power: 15 dBm). Stable transmission performance is demonstrated and we relate these results to the theory of the propagation of guiding-centre solitons. We show that this system can be readily expanded to transmission over a thousand kilometres.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages | 233-236 |
Number of pages | 4 |
State | Published - Dec 1 1994 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | Proceedings of the 20th 1994 European Conference on Optical Communication, ECOC'94. Part 1 - Firenze, Italy Duration: Sep 25 1994 → Sep 29 1994 |
Other
Other | Proceedings of the 20th 1994 European Conference on Optical Communication, ECOC'94. Part 1 |
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City | Firenze, Italy |
Period | 9/25/94 → 9/29/94 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Engineering(all)