Field measurements of 10-Gb/s line-rate transmission on the Columbus-IIB submarine lightwave system

We report field measurements of virtually error-free transmission at 10 Gb/s line rate on the installed Columbus-IIB optically amplified submarine lightwave system. For 2100-km transmission an average experimental Q-factor of 18.8 dB was achieved. An eye margin (EM) of +80 mV at 10/sup -15/ bit-erro...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE photonics technology letters 1995-11, Vol.7 (11), p.1366-1368
Hauptverfasser: Jensen, R.A., Tench, R.E., Duff, D.G., Davidson, C.R., Chen, C.D., Mizuhara, O., Nguyen, T.V., Tzeng, L.D., Yeates, P.D.
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Zusammenfassung:We report field measurements of virtually error-free transmission at 10 Gb/s line rate on the installed Columbus-IIB optically amplified submarine lightwave system. For 2100-km transmission an average experimental Q-factor of 18.8 dB was achieved. An eye margin (EM) of +80 mV at 10/sup -15/ bit-error-ratio (BER) was also measured. For 4200 km transmission the average experimental Q-factor was 16.0 dB. Implications for system operation at 10 Gb/s line rate are discussed.< >
ISSN:1041-1135
1941-0174
DOI:10.1109/68.473500