Title :
Straight line 10 Gbit/s soliton transmission over 1000 km of standard fibre with in-line chirped fibre grating for partial dispersion compensation
Author :
Grudinin, A.B. ; Durkin, M. ; Ibsen, M. ; Laming, R.I. ; Schiffini, A. ; Franco, P. ; Grandi, E. ; Romagnoli, M.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK
fDate :
8/28/1997 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The authors demonstrate a highly practical and robust soliton transmission system with partial dispersion compensation. Error free transmission was obtained for 10 Gbit/s data over 1000 km of standard fibre with nominal dispersion of 17 ps/nm.km. Despite variations in the dispersion compensation ratio and the relatively high UV-induced birefringence of the fibre gratings, the system exhibits BERs<10-10 for any state of input polarisation provided that the average intra-span dispersion is negative
Keywords :
chirp modulation; diffraction gratings; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical solitons; 10 Gbit/s; 1000 km; BER; UV-induced birefringence; in-line chirped fibre grating; optical fibre; partial dispersion compensation; soliton transmission;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19971053
