Abstract
We demonstrate a 130-km metro CWDM transmission system using a single LOA with 140-nm bandwidth. An in-service upgrade, for which one of the eight 2.5-Gb/s CWDM channels is replaced with 8 x 2.5-Gb/s DWDM channels, results in negligible performance degradation.
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