Abstract
Experiments and simulations show that the channel bandwidth of a dynamic gain-equalizer exerts strong influence on the performance of a nonlinear ULH system. For a 40-channel, 6000-km, 100 GHz-spaced DWDM system with 12.5Gb/s data rate, the optimal bandwidth is near 50 GHz.
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