Title :
Non-linear transmission with practical semiconductor source
Author :
Marshall, I.W. ; Brown, G.N. ; Spirit, D.M.
Author_Institution :
BTRL, Ipswich, UK
Abstract :
The authors show that the chirp associated with external cavity mode-locked laser pulses is small enough for solitonic transmission at 40 Gbit/s over distances of up to 2000 km in a system using distributed amplifiers
Keywords :
laser mode locking; nonlinear optics; optical communication; semiconductor junction lasers; solitons; 40 Gbit/s; chirp; distributed amplifiers; external cavity mode-locked laser pulses; nonlinear optical transmission; semiconductor source; solitonic transmission;
Conference_Titel :
Non-Linear Effects in Fibre Communications, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
