That’s fast enough to download over 50,000 HD movies in a single second.
The researchers presented theirresultsthis week at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference in San Diego.
Six methods were used, including doped fiber amplifiers and distributed Raman amplification.
Newly developed optical gain equalizers also allowed access to wavelength bands not used in current fiber optic deployments.
Combining these new bands with next-gen fiber types could also help future-proof networks.
However, this one utilized a multi-core multi-mode fiber, unlike the single-mode fiber used in the breakthrough above.
