S. Ramachandran et al., 1700 km transmission at 40 Gbit/s with 100 km amplifier spacing enabled byhigher-order-mode dispersion compensation, ELECTR LETT, 37(22), 2001, pp. 1352-1354
Transmission at 40 Gbit/s, over 1700 km of non-zero dispersion fibre with 1
00 km amplifier spacing is reported for the first time, The demonstration i
s enabled by an all-Fibre higher-order-mode dispersion-compensating module
(HOM-DCM) and distributed Raman amplification.