High-speed transmission in multimode fibers (MMF) is becoming attractive for the realization
of high-capacity transmission systems at low cost. This paper discusses the theoretical …

We experimentally investigate high-capacity few-mode fiber transmission for short and
medium-haul optical links. In separate experiments, we demonstrate C+ L band …

The following design considerations for long-haul lightwave systems are reviewed: outage
and error rate requirements, terminal architecture, regenerator span design and …

BACKGROUND In the late 1950s and thereafter, Charles Kao was an electrical engineer
working for Standard Telephones and Cables (STC)(now Nortel Networks) at their research …

A laboratory demonstration is reported in which low-cost optoelectronic devices are used for
transmission over 9/125? m single-mode fibre at 2 Mbit/s. This novel system has been …

Optical-fiber communications brought a revolution to communication technology,
outperforming other communication systems by several orders of magnitude in transmission …

We have experimentally demonstrated the highest capacity transmission of 73.2 Gbps at
back-to-back and 52.8 Gbps after 20-km SMF transmission without optical amplifiers and …

The combination of amplifier noise and optical nonlinearities limits the maximum capacity of
single-mode fibers in amplified lightwave systems. Using fundamental considerations, it is …

Although the fundamental and practical limits of characteristics such as laser power,
transmitter/receiver speed, transmitter spectral purity, receiver sensitivity, fiber dispersion …

This paper describes ultra-high capacity wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM)
transmission technologies for 100-Tbit/s-class optical transport networks (OTNs). First, we …