Title :
200000 km 10 Gbit/s soliton propagation exploiting periodic saturable absorption
Author :
Harper, P. ; Penketh, I.S. ; Alleston, S. ; Doran, N.J.
Author_Institution :
Photonics Res. Group, Aston Univ., Birmingham, UK
Abstract :
We have achieved error free propagation of 10 Gbit/s data over 200000 km without the use of active control. Instead we use nonlinear polarisation rotation with a polarising element to give a saturable absorption effect which suppressed the noise level. Here we have used this technique to allow error free propagation of a 10 Gbit/s 231 -1 PRBS soliton data stream over 200,000 km
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; optical noise; optical rotation; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; 10 Gbit/s; 200000 km; Gbit/s soliton propagation; PRBS soliton data stream; active control; error free propagation; noise level suppression; nonlinear polarisation rotation; periodic saturable absorption; polarising element; saturable absorption effect; Absorption; Band pass filters; Bit error rate; Error correction; Noise level; Optical fiber polarization; Oscilloscopes; Photonics; Pulse modulation; Solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 1998. 24th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Madrid
Print_ISBN :
84-89900-14-0
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.1998.732458
