L. Eskilden et al., SINGLE-FIBER REPEATERLESS TRANSMISSION OVER 490 KM AT 2.488 GBIT S USING A REMOTE PREAMPLIFIER AND DISPERSION COMPENSATION/, Electronics Letters, 32(18), 1996, pp. 1696-1697
A cost effective repeaterless system with remote pumping in a single f
ibre is reported. Omitting dedicated pump fibres, 490 km transmission
is demonstrated at 2.488 Gbit/s with a fibre loss of 87.4 dB. The syst
em employs a remote preamplifler and dispersion compensating fibre, bu
t no remote post-amplifier.