DISPERSION-COMPENSATED 333-KM 10-GB S TRANSMISSION USING MID-SPAN SPECTRAL INVERSION IN AN INJECTION-LOCKED INGAASP V-GROOVE LASER

We have demonstrated a 1.5-mum, 333-km, 10-Gb/s transmission system in conventional 1.3-mum zero-dispersion-wavelength single-mode fiber, us ing mid-span spectral inversion in a multi-mode semiconductor laser. T he inverted spectrum was generated via cavity-enhanced highly-nondegen erate four-wave mixing, for which the resonant gain in the injection-l ocked V-groove laser yields higher conversion efficiencies relative to those of travelling-wave amplifiers. The bit-rat x distance product o f 3330 Gb-km/s is more than an order of magnitude better than the best previous result employing a semiconductor conjugator.