25 X 40-gb/s Copolarized Dpsk Transmissionn over 12 X 100-km Nzdf with 50-ghz Channel Spacingg 25 40-gb/s Copolarized Dpsk Transmission over 12 100-km Nzdf with 50-ghz Channel Spacing

Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution must be obtained from the IEEE by sending a blank email message too pubs-permissions@ieee.org.. By choosing to view this document, you agree to all provisions off the copyright laws protecting it. Abstract—We report the first transmission of copolarized 40-Gb/s channels with 0.8-b/s/Hz spectral efficiency. We transmit 25 channels over 1200 km of nonzero-dispersion fiber (1600 km with adjacent channels orthogonally polarized). This result was obtained using differential phase-shift keying, and without forward error correction.