Measurement of ultralow Gordon-Haus timing jitter in dispersion-managed soliton systems

Author

Westlund, Mathias ; Sunnerud, Henrik ; Li, Jie ; Hansryd, Jonas ; Karlsson, Magnus ; Andrekson, Peter A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Microelectron., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg, Sweden

Volume

14

Issue

8

fYear

2002

Firstpage

1097

Lastpage

1099

Abstract

We measure, for the first time, the growth of the Gordon-Haus timing jitter in dispersion-managed soliton communication systems without inline soliton control. After 650-km transmission with a relatively high average dispersion of 0.87 ps/nm/km and a pulsewidth of 14 ps, compatible with 20 Gb/s, we measure a very low timing jitter of 45 fs. Hence, medium range dispersion-managed soliton transmission systems have, in general, a good margin toward Gordon-Haus timing jitter.

Keywords

optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical solitons; timing jitter; 14 ps; 20 Gbit/s; 650 km; dispersion-managed soliton communication systems; dispersion-managed soliton systems; medium range dispersion-managed soliton transmission systems; pulsewidth; relatively high average dispersion; ultralow Gordon-Haus timing jitter; Delta modulation; Laboratories; Microelectronics; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical pulses; Photonics; Pulse amplifiers; Solitons; Timing jitter;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2002.1021981

Filename

1021981