10-Gb/s 360-km transmission over dispersive fiber using midsystem spectral inversion

The use of multi-gigabit per second transmission speeds over the world's embedded fiber plant (normal dispersion fiber) is severely limited by the chromatic dispersion in systems operating at wavelengths within the gain bandwidth of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers. A dispersion-compensation technique utilizing a midsystem spectral inversion was used to overcome this limit, resulting in 1.55- mu m 10-Gb/s transmission through 360 km of normal-dispersion fiber.<
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