[LINK] Recent optical transmission milestones: 26 Tb/s single laser, 101.7Tb/s multilaser, 3560km single hop

[Richard Chirgwin]

And I guess even though this record is a couple of years old, it still 
appears to stand:

http://www.physorg.com/news173455192.html

100 petabits / second.km (in other words, would only be 10 petabits / 
second over 10 Km).

RC

On 2/06/11 7:51 AM, Phillip Musumeci wrote:
> German group achieves 26 Tb/s using single laser transmitter - see
> http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/optoelectronics/fastest-singlelaser-transmission
> which
> also notes current multi-laser maximum as 101.7 Tb/s (using 370 lasers,
> March 2011, NEC) and a single hop maximum for 1 Tb/s of 3560km (2011, NEC
> and Verizon).
>