Abstract
We report the first demonstration of 40Gbit/s transmission over 109km of standard fibre at 1.55 mu m with dispersion compensating linearly chirped continuous fibre gratings and a similar to 0.5nm source wavelength tolerance, demonstrating the feasibility of fabricating such gratings for use at very high data rates.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1563-1565 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Electronics letters |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 18 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 1997 |
Bibliographical note
Times Cited: 15Keywords
- 40 Gbit/s transmission
- linearly chirped continuous fibre gratings
- wavelength tolerance
- data rate