10 Gbit/s alternate polarisation soliton transmission over 300 km step-index fibre link with no in-line control

Author

Franco, P. ; Schiffini, A. ; Corsini, R. ; Romagnoli, M. ; Tamburrini, M. ; Cascelli, S.

Author_Institution

Pirelli Cavi & Sistemi, Milan, Italy

Volume

34

Issue

11

fYear

1998

fDate

5/28/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1116

Lastpage

1117

Abstract

A straight-line in-field transmission was performed over a 300 km step-index fibre link installed between Roma and Pomezia using a 10 Gbit/s stream of 1550 nm alternate-polarisation solitons. Standard SDH 10 Gbit/s line terminals were used at the transmitter and receiver sides. Error-free transmission was obtained with optical amplifiers placed every 50 km and with no in-line soliton control. It is important to underline that in this case the large chromatic dispersion was compensated for by fibre non-linearity without resorting to chromatic dispersion compensators

Keywords

compensation; digital communication; error statistics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical solitons; refractive index; 10 Gbit/s; 1550 nm; 300 km; BER; Pomezia; Roma; alternate polarisation soliton transmission; bit error rate; chromatic dispersion compensation; error-free transmission; fibre nonlinearity; optical amplifiers; standard SDH line terminals; step-index fibre link; straight-line in-field transmission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics Letters

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0013-5194

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/el:19980781

Filename

684586