@inproceedings{4fe99de619174021994e5d2a8191891d,
title = "Experimental comparison of mid-link spectral inversion and conventional DCF-based transmission in a DWDM system at 40Gbit/s",
abstract = "In this paper, the performance of mid-link spectral inversion (MLSI)-based transmission is quantitatively compared to the performance for 'conventional' dispersion compensating fiber (DCF)-based transmission. Bit error rates (BER) are measured at optimized residual dispersion for all sixteen channels after 800km transmission in standard single mode fiber (SSMF). We show that for the MLSI-based configuration up to a decade of improvement in BER is obtained compared to the DCF based system. MLSI has the potential of lowering the cost of long haul transmission systems since instead of having multiple DCF modules per span only one spectral inverter is required for the whole transmission line. For spectral inversion, a polarization independent magnesium-oxide-doped periodically-poled lithium-niobate (MgO:PPLN) based subsystem was used.",
author = "S.L. Jansen and S. Spalter and G.D. Khoe and {Waardt, de}, H. and M. Sher and D. Zhou and S.J. Field",
year = "2004",
doi = "10.1117/12.579506",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE",
publisher = "SPIE",
pages = "287--295",
editor = "C.F. Lam and W. Gu and N. Hanik and K. Oguchi",
booktitle = "Optical transmission, switching, and subsystems II : proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Optical Communications Conference 2004 (APOC 2004), 7 November 2004, Beijing, China",
address = "United States",
note = "2004 Asia-Pacific Optical Communications Conference (APOC 2004), APOC 2004 ; Conference date: 07-11-2004 Through 11-11-2004",
}