Experimental demonstration of soliton transmission over 28 Mm using mostly normal dispersion fiber

Author

Jacob, J.M. ; Golovchenko, E.A. ; Pilipetskii, A.N. ; Carter, G.M. ; Menyuk, C.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Maryland Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA

Volume

9

Issue

1

fYear

1997

Firstpage

130

Lastpage

132

Abstract

We report on stable soliton propagation experiments in a fiber transmission system consisting of more than 90% normal dispersion fiber. The transmission system has a dispersion map much like that used in nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) pulse transmission but with a path-average anomalous dispersion of +0.1 ps/nm-km. A stable soliton pulse train at 8 GHz has been observed after 28 Mm of propagation in a 108-km recirculating fiber-optic loop. A significant enhancement in the average soliton power required for stable transmission in a dispersion map with alternating signs of dispersion is experimentally demonstrated for the first time. Theoretical modeling of our experiment is in good agreement with our findings.

Keywords

optical fibre dispersion; optical solitons; 28 Mm; 8 GHz; NRZ pulse transmission; dispersion management; normal dispersion fiber; recirculating loop; soliton transmission; Band pass filters; Filtering; Gain; Optical distortion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical propagation; Optical pulses; Optical solitons; Power system modeling;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.554532

Filename

554532