4 Gb/s soliton data transmission over 136 km using erbium doped fiber amplifiers

Author

Olsson, N.A. ; Andrekson, P.A. ; Becker, P.C. ; Simpson, J.R. ; Tanbun-Ek, T. ; Logan, R.A. ; Presby, H. ; Wecht, K.

Author_Institution

AT&T Bell Lab., Murray Hill, NJ, USA

Volume

2

Issue

5

fYear

1990

fDate

5/1/1990 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

358

Lastpage

359

Abstract

The use of semiconductor-laser-pumped erbium-doped fiber amplifiers and an externally modulated mode-locked external-cavity semiconductor laser to obtain soliton data transmission at 4 Gb/s over 136 km of nondispersion shifted fiber is described. After 136 km of transmission and at low pulse powers, the approximately 80 ps fiber input pulse width was broadened to approximately 150 ps. At high pulse powers the output pulse width was maintained at 80 ps, as expected for N=1 solitons. N=3 solitons were also observed at lower data rates.<>

Keywords

erbium; fibre optics; optical dispersion; optical links; solid lasers; solitons; 136 km; 150 ps; 4 Gbit/s; 80 ps; Er doped fibre amplifiers; data rates; externally modulated mode-locked external-cavity semiconductor laser; fiber input pulse width; nondispersion shifted fiber; semiconductor-laser-pumped; soliton data transmission; Data communication; Doped fiber amplifiers; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Optical pulses; Page description languages; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Solitons; Space vector pulse width modulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.54705

Filename

54705