Experimental demonstration of long-distance dispersion-managed soliton propagation at zero average dispersion

Author

Grigoryan, Vladimir S. ; Mu, R.-M. ; Carter, Gary M. ; Menyuk, Curtis R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Maryland Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

28-28 May 1999

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

41

Abstract

Summary form only given. By using dispersion-managed solitons (DMS) rather than standard solitons, it is possible to nearly eliminate the timing jitter, one of the major sources of error in soliton communications. Theoretical investigations show that when the average dispersion D~ is normal, the DMS has a large stretching factor and only exists in a narrow range of normal D~ on the order of 0.01 ps/nm-km. These factors make observation of solitons when D~ is normal harder than when D~ is anomalous.

Keywords

optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical solitons; timing jitter; 1.5 dB; 28000 km; fiber loop; long-distance dispersion-managed soliton propagation; recirculating loop; soliton communications; stretching factor; timing jitter; zero average dispersion; Birefringence; Couplings; Maxwell equations; Nonlinear equations; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical propagation; Polarization mode dispersion; Schrodinger equation; Solitons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO '99. Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-595-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1999.833848

Filename

833848