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Optical-transport networks in 2015

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What will optical communications be capable of in the next decade? Transmission of 10 Tbit sāˆ’1 over a single fibre and a reconfigurable transparent network are two possibilities.

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Figure 1: Optical spectrum of a 14-Tbit sāˆ’1 WDM/PDM signal after travelling two spans of 80-km single-mode fibres and ultrawide-waveband phosphorous and erbium co-doped fibre amplifiers.
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  1. Sano, A. et al. European Conf. on Opt. Comm. 2006 Postdeadline paper Th4.1.1 (2006).

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  1. NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, 1-1 Hikari-no-oka, Yokosuka, 239-0847, Japan

    Masahiko Jinno,Ā Yutaka MiyamotoĀ &Ā Yoshinori Hibino

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Jinno, M., Miyamoto, Y. & Hibino, Y. Optical-transport networks in 2015. Nature Photon 1, 157ā€“159 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.18

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