Stretched-pulse optical fiber communications

Author

Matsumoto, M. ; Haus, H.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

Volume

9

Issue

6

fYear

1997

fDate

6/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

785

Lastpage

787

Abstract

We compare numerically long-distance propagation of two types of nonlinear pulses: a stretched pulse in a fiber with alternating normal and anomalous dispersion and a soliton in a fiber with uniformly anomalous dispersion. Numerical evaluation of timing jitter and Q factor reveals that stretched pulses can be propagated over longer distances than solitons with the same (averaged) fiber dispersion in the presence of weak fixed-frequency filtering. We also examine pulse-to-pulse interactions between stretched pulses and the influence of fluctuations of the fiber dispersion.

Keywords

Q-factor; jitter; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical solitons; 20 Gbit/s; Q factor; alternating normal/anomalous dispersion; fiber dispersion; fluctuations; long-distance propagation; nonlinear pulses; numerical evaluation; pulse-to-pulse interactions; soliton; stretched-pulse optical fiber communications; timing jitter; uniformly anomalous dispersion; weak fixed-frequency filtering; Filtering; Filters; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical propagation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse modulation; Solitons; Timing jitter;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.584990

Filename

584990