Demonstration of standard fiber transmission limited by third-order dispersion

Summary form only given. Midspan spectral inversion (MSSI) can cancel group velocity dispersion (GVD) induced distortion, which is one of the major limitations in high-bit-rate transmission on standard fiber. In this paper, we report experimental results from transmission of 2.5-ps pulses over more than 100-km standard fiber, corresponding to 1000 second-order dispersion lengths and four third-order dispersion (TOD) lengths. GVD is cancelled by MSSI leaving TOD as a major transmission limitation.