Title :
Numerical and experimental comparison of soliton, RZ pulse and NRZ pulses under two-step dispersion allocation
Author :
Nakazawa, M. ; Yamada, E. ; Kubota, H. ; Yamamoto, T. ; Sahara, A.
Author_Institution :
Optical Soliton Commun. Res. Group, NTT Access Network Syst. Labs., Ibaraki, Japan
fDate :
8/14/1997 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The quality of the dispersion-allocated (D-A) soliton is experimentally and numerically compared with RZ and NRZ pulses at zero group velocity dispersion (GVD). It is shown that the D-A soliton has the best performance in terms of transmission distance. The maximum transmission distance of the RZ pulse transmission is dependent on the dispersion allocation which indicates that it can be extended by the soliton effect in an anomalous GVD fibre. The analyses were confirmed experimentally using 1.3 μm singlemode fibres and dispersion compensation fibres
Keywords :
error statistics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical solitons; 1.3 micron; BER; NRZ pulses; RZ pulses; bit error rate; dispersion compensation fibres; dispersion-allocated soliton; singlemode fibres; transmission distance; two-step dispersion allocation; zero group velocity dispersion;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19971001
