Numerical study of moderate distance high bit-rate alternating-amplitude soliton systems

Author

Bertilsson, Kent ; Andrekson, Peter A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Optoelectron. & Electr. Meas., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg, Sweden

Volume

14

Issue

3

fYear

1996

fDate

3/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

237

Lastpage

242

Abstract

We present a numerical investigation of alternating-amplitude soliton systems. We propagate 100 Gb/s, pseudorandom bit sequences of 2 ⁵-1 to 2⁷-1 solitons through fibers of different lengths and calculate the corresponding eye opening penalty at the receiver. The influence of different amplitude ratios, amplifier spacings, pulse widths, and dispersion slopes as well as of the soliton self-frequency shift are studied. We also study the effect of compression of the alternative-amplitude solitons with the larger amplitudes to preserve their soliton character and the impact of the relative initial phase between the alternating-amplitude solitons. When the amplifier spacing is 10 km the system length can be at least 400 km with alternating-amplitude solitons compared to only 200 km in the case of equal amplitude solitons with similar penalties. Our simulations show-that third-order dispersion and the soliton self-frequency shift limit the maximum allowable amplitude ratio

Keywords

optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre theory; optical receivers; optical solitons; simulation; 10 km; 100 Gbit/s; 200 km; 400 km; alternative-amplitude soliton compression; amplifier spacings; amplitude ratios; dispersion slopes; eye opening penalty; maximum allowable amplitude ratio; moderate distance high bit-rate alternating-amplitude soliton systems; numerical investigation; pseudorandom bit sequences; pulse widths; receiver; relative initial phase; soliton character; soliton self-frequency shift; third-order dispersion; Dispersion; Frequency estimation; Optical amplifiers; Optical control; Optical filters; Optical transmitters; Pulse amplifiers; Solitons; Space vector pulse width modulation; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.485580

Filename

485580