Local Dispersion Map Deviations in Metro-Regional Transmission Investigated Using a Dynamically Re-Configurable Re-Circulating Loop

01 January 2007

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The performance of 40x10.7 Gb/s NRZ-OOK signals is measured in a dynamically re-configurable re-circulating loop experiment with local dispersion map variations up to +/-120 ps/nm and mean residual-dispersion per-span between 10.3-54.0 ps/nm over 28x27dB spans.