Limits of long-distance soliton transmission in optical fibers with laser diodes as pulse sources

Author

Ding, Ming ; Kikuchi, Kazuro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tokyo Univ., Japan

Volume

4

Issue

6

fYear

1992

fDate

6/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

667

Lastpage

670

Abstract

To employ soliton transmission in practical optical fiber communication systems, it is desired that semiconductor laser diodes (LDs) can be used as the optical soliton sources. The authors show that, when pulses generated by LDs are used for soliton transmission, the large frequency noise of LDs causes jitter in soliton arrival times, and makes a limit on the bit-rate distance product of the soliton transmission system. This limit is shown to be proportional to the square root of the output peak power of the pulses generated by LDs, and has a value of 12800 GHz-km for pulses with an output peak power of 10 mW and a duration of 20 ps.<>

Keywords

light sources; optical communication; optical links; semiconductor junction lasers; solitons; 10 mW; 20 ps; bit-rate distance product; fiber communication systems; jitter; large frequency noise; laser diodes; long-distance soliton transmission; optical fibers; optical soliton sources; output peak power; pulse duration; pulse sources; semiconductor laser diodes; soliton arrival times; square root; Diode lasers; Frequency; Jitter; Noise generators; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Optical noise; Optical pulse generation; Optical solitons; Semiconductor device noise;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.142006

Filename

142006