On the Impact of Gas-Line Absorption in Long-Haul C+L-Band Hollow-Core Fibre Transmission

We numerically investigate gas-line absorption in hollow-core fibre C+L-band transmission. Results show limited C-band but severe L-band performance degradation. Ideal suppression enables a 1.5$\times$ higher L-band throughput, reaching 59.1 Tb/s over 1000 km, while reducing repeater number by up to 3.3$\times$.

423.7 + 426.5 Tb/s GMI Bi-Directional HCF Transmission

We demonstrate OESCL-band same-wavelength bi-directional transmission over 60 km HCF with 42.5 THz bandwidth, achieving GMIs comparable with the highest unidirectional SMF data-rates in both directions, with an aggregate of 423.7 + 426.5 Tb/s.

Ultra-Wideband Transmission Systems From an Energy Perspective: Which Band is Next?

Measuring the power efficiency of the state-of-the-art OESCL-band amplifiers, we show that 1000 km OESCL-band systems can achieve 2.98x greater throughput for +48% higher energy-per-bit compared to CL-band transmission only.