Abstract
As a result of an extensive series of experiments on dispersive, gigabit-per-seconds, long-distance systems, we have arrived at a model of dispersion penalties in these systems that enables us to explain why some lasers give BER floors and bad slopes, whereas other lasers, even of the same type, can operate over 100-200 km of non-dispersion-shifted fiber without significant penalties. By successively eliminating the encountered dispersion limits, we have reached what is, to our knowledge, the longest reported 2.5-Gbit/s transmission on dispersive fiber (225 km)1 by using direct modulation of a standard bulk 1.55-µm DFB laser.
© 1993 Optical Society of America
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