Title :
Measurement of ultra-low Gordon-Haus timing jitter in dispersion-managed soliton systems
Author :
Westlund, Mathias ; Sunnerud, Henrik ; Li, Jie ; Hansryd, Jonas ; Andrekson, Peter A.
Author_Institution :
Photonics Lab., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg, Sweden
Abstract :
The growth of the Gordon-Haus timing jitter in dispersion-managed soliton communication systems without in-line control is measured. After 650 km transmission with an average dispersion of DAVG=0.87 ps/nm/km and a pulse width, TFWHM=14 ps, compatible with 20 Gbit/s, only 45 fs of timing jitter is measured. This indicates that medium-range dispersion-managed soliton transmission systems have, in general, a good margin towards Gordon-Haus timing jitter.
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical solitons; phase noise; timing jitter; 14 ps; 45 fs; 650 km; Gordon-Haus effect; dispersion-managed soliton systems; phase noise measuring technique; timing jitter; Chirp; Delta modulation; Dispersion; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Solitons; Space vector pulse width modulation; Timing jitter;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6705-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2001.989126
