Title :
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
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;
Journal_Title :
Lightwave Technology, Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JLT.2005.861146
