On Thu, 29 May 2003, N. Richard Solis wrote:
effects of high laser power on glass fibers. At last guess, that limit was about +17dBm into standard SMF-28. Couple this with a typical receive sensitivity of -12dBm for 10gpbs signals and you've for about 29dB of link margin to work with. Assuming of course that there aren't
Interesting. I have GigE stuff that have a receive sensitivity of -29dB, if we could launch with +17dB somehow (this equipment only launches with typical +4dB), things would get interesting. With a .2 dB per km (I have seen this on newer fiber) that'll actually put the length of fiber into the 200+km territory (230km according to my math). Still, it's not 200 miles, and the amp to amplify +5 into +17 would not be cheap, probably at least 10 times more expensive than a regen/amp to put in the middle to go from -29 into +5 again. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se