Penalty-free dispersion-managed soliton transmission over a 100-km low-loss PCF

Author

Kurokawa, Kenji ; Tajima, Katsusuke ; Tsujikawa, Kyozo ; Nakajima, Kazuhide ; Matsui, Takashi ; Sankawa, Izumi ; Haibara, Tadashi

Author_Institution

NTT Access Network Service Syst. Labs., Ibaraki, Japan

Volume

24

Issue

1

fYear

2006

Firstpage

32

Lastpage

37

Abstract

A long photonic-crystal fiber (PCF) with a low loss was successfully fabricated by first preparing a large pure silica glass preform. The fiber is 100 km long and has a low loss of 0.3 dB/km at 1550 nm. The fiber has a Rayleigh scattering coefficient of 0.85 dB/(km·μm⁴), which is the lowest value ever reported in a PCF. Using this fiber, the first penalty-free dispersion-managed soliton transmission at 10 Gb/s was achieved in a PCF.

Keywords

Rayleigh scattering; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre losses; optical solitons; photonic crystals; preforms; silicon compounds; 10 Gbit/s; 100 km; 1550 nm; Rayleigh scattering coefficient; SiO₂; dispersion-managed soliton transmission; low-loss PCF; low-loss fiber; penalty-free soliton transmission; photonic-crystal fiber; pure silica glass preform; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical device fabrication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber losses; Optical fibers; Optical mixing; Optical scattering; Optical solitons; Propagation losses; Holey fiber; optical fiber fabrication; optical fiber losses; optical solitons; photonic-crystal fiber;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2005.861146

Filename

1589030