Transmission of dispersion-managed solitons at 20 Gbit/s over 20000 km

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Carter, G.M., R.-M. Mu, V.S. Grigoryan, C.R. Menyuk, P. Sinha, T.F. Carruthers, M.L. Dennis, and I.N. Duling. “Transmission of Dispersion-Managed Solitons at 20 Gbit/s over 20000 Km.” Electronics Letters 35, no. 3 (February 4, 1999): 233–34. https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19990105.

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Abstract

The transmission of 20 Gbit/s data over distances of 20000 km was achieved using dispersion-managed solitons without significant impairment due to pulse-to-pulse interactions. Error rates of < 10⁻⁹ were achieved over the entire distance measured.