IM-DD four-channel WDM transmission experiment over 1500 km employing 22 cascaded optical amplifiers

Abstract
The authors demonstrate an over 1500 km transmission experiment employing WDM technique and optical amplifiers. Four 591.2 Mbit/s IM-DD channels were transmitted through 22 cascaded erbium-doped fibre optical amplifiers. The result shows the possibility of long distance multichannel optical communication systems.