10-Gb/s transmission of NRZ over 10000 km and solitons over 13500 km error-free in the same dispersion-managed system

Author

Jacob, John M. ; Golovchenko, Ekaterina A. ; Pilipetskii, Alexei N. ; Carter, Gary M. ; Menyuk, Curtis R.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

9

Issue

10

fYear

1997

Firstpage

1412

Lastpage

1414

Abstract

A dispersion management scheme that is capable of supporting both dispersion-managed solitons and nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) data formats as well as intermediate formats is demonstrated for error-free long-haul transmission at 10 Gb/s in excess of 9500 km. This experimental tool ran be used to directly compare the different data formats. Our results suggest that a format between standard solitons and standard NRZ, such as dispersion-managed solitons or phase-modulated NRZ, may have significant advantages.

Keywords

optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; optical solitons; phase modulation; telecommunication network management; 10 Gbit/s; 9500 km; Gb/s transmission; dispersion-managed solitons; dispersion-managed system; error-free; error-free long-haul transmission; nonreturn-to-zero data formats; phase-modulated NRZ; solitons; standard solitons; Computer science; Frequency; Jacobian matrices; Optical distortion; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical filters; Optical signal processing; Phase modulation; Shape; Solitons;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.623280

Filename

623280