Experimental evidence of pseudo-periodical soliton propagation in dispersion-managed link

Author

Favre, F. ; Le Guen, D. ; Georges, T.

Author_Institution

CNET, Lannion, France

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

20-24 Sep 1998

Firstpage

87

Abstract

We present the first experimental evidence of pseudo-periodical soliton propagation in dispersion-managed link. It is shown that the prechirp is a key element for the control of nonlinearity as predicted by the theory. The aim of this study is to compare measured and predicted pulse evolution along a dispersion-managed link in the anomalous-dispersion regime using a recirculation loop with 100 km dispersion-compensated span of standard fiber. Simultaneous measurements of spectral width and chirp are performed for different values of prechirp

Keywords

chirp modulation; compensation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; optical solitons; telecommunication network management; wavelength division multiplexing; 100 km; 20 Gbit/s; anomalous-dispersion regime; chirp; dispersion-compensated span; dispersion-managed link; fibre nonlinearity control; prechirp; predicted pulse evolution; pseudo-periodical soliton propagation; recirculation loop; spectral width; Chirp; Dispersion; Optical fiber theory; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse measurements; Solitons; Space vector pulse width modulation; Steady-state; Telecommunication control; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 1998. 24th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Madrid

Print_ISBN

84-89900-14-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.1998.732449

Filename

732449