Evaluation of Chirp-Managed Lasers in a Dispersion Managed DWDM Transmission over 24 Spans
01 January 2007
We report the first long-haul DWDM transmission using three chirp-managed lasers (CML) spaced 50-GHz apart in SSMF at 10- Gb/s. Transmission penalties less than 0.7dB over a dispersion- managed link of 1980 km was measured with performance comparable to NRZ-OOK.