Ferber, S.S.FerberLudwig, R.R.LudwigBoerner, C.C.BoernerSchubert, C.C.SchubertSchmidt-Langhorst, C.C.Schmidt-LanghorstKroh, M.M.KrohMarembert, V.V.MarembertWeber, H.G.H.G.Weber2022-03-032022-03-032005https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/20838810.1049/el:20057179Long-term BER measurements (10 h) of a single-channel 160 Gbit/s transmission over 4/spl times/80 km high-dispersion fibre are reported, using a single polarisation signal, RZ-DPSK coding and EDFA amplification solely. Pulse source, demultiplexing optical gate, clock recovery and the balanced detector are based on semiconductor components. Completely error-free transmission was observed for more than 5 h without using FEC.en621384journal article