Ultra-long-haul transmission of 7×42.9 Gbit/s PS-QPSK and PDM-BPSK

Carsten Behrens1, Domaniç Lavery, David S Millar

  • 1Optical Networks Group, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London (UCL), Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE, UK. cbehrens@ee.ucl.ac.uk

Optics Express
|January 26, 2012
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