Dispersion tolerance and transmission distance of a 40-Gb/s dispersion management soliton transmission system

Author

Takushima, Yuichi ; Douke, Tomohiro ; Wang, Xiaomin ; Kikuchi, Kazuro

Author_Institution

Res. Center for Adv. Sci. & Technol., Tokyo Univ., Japan

Volume

20

Issue

3

fYear

2002

fDate

3/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

360

Lastpage

367

Abstract

We investigate the tolerance of the variation of average dispersion in a 40-Gb/s dispersion-managed soliton (DMS) transmission system. It is theoretically shown that dispersion tolerance is governed by pulse broadening and soliton interaction, and that the largest dispersion tolerance can be achieved by optimizing the pulse energy depending on the transmission distance. We construct a 40-Gb/s recirculating loop transmission system and show that the dispersion tolerance of over 180 ps/nm, which is much larger than that of a linear nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) format system, can be realized by the optimization of the pulse energy at a transmission distance of more than 1000 km

Keywords

error statistics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre theory; optical solitons; 1000 km; 40 Gbit/s; 40-Gb/s dispersion managed soliton transmission system; average dispersion; dispersion tolerance; linear nonreturn-to-zero format system; optimization; pulse broadening; pulse energy; recirculating loop transmission system; soliton interaction; transmission distance; Bit rate; Numerical simulation; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical pulses; Optical signal processing; Pulse modulation; Solitons; Timing jitter; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.988984

Filename

988984