Polarization multiplexing with solitons

Author

Evangelides, Stephen G., Jr. ; Mollenauer, Linn F. ; Gordon, James P. ; Bergano, Neal S.

Author_Institution

AT&T Bell Lab., Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

10

Issue

1

fYear

1992

fDate

1/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

28

Lastpage

35

Abstract

It is shown both analytically and with numerical simulation, and confirmed experimentally in transmission over distances up to ~10000 km, that solitons maintain a high degree of polarization over an ultra-long distance transmission system consisting of birefringent dispersion-shifted fiber segments and erbium amplifiers. Based on that fact, the authors propose a polarization/time division multiplexing technique which should allow the single-wavelength bit-rate capacity of an ultra-long distance soliton transmission system to be doubled with little or no significant increase in bit error rate

Keywords

birefringence; light polarisation; optical dispersion; optical links; solitons; time division multiplexing; 10000 km; Er doped fibre amplifiers; TDM; birefringent dispersion-shifted fiber; bit error rate; polarisation multiplexing; single-wavelength bit-rate capacity; soliton transmission system; solitons; time division multiplexing; transmission; ultra-long distance transmission system; Birefringence; Frequency; Gaussian noise; History; Numerical simulation; Optical fiber polarization; Optical noise; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Solitons;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.108732

Filename

108732