Experimental investigation of Gordon-Haus limit on soliton transmission by using optical short pulses generated by an InGaAsP electroabsorption modulator

Author

Suzuki, M. ; Taga, Hidenori ; Edagawa, N. ; Tanaka, Hiroya ; Yamamoto, Seiichi ; Akiba, Shigeyuki

Author_Institution

R&D Lab., KDD, Saitama, Japan

Volume

29

Issue

18

fYear

1993

Firstpage

1643

Lastpage

1644

Abstract

The maximum transmission length of data coded solitons at 5 Gbit/s has been investigated for a simple Er-doped fibre amplifier system without in-line soliton controls using short pulses generated by an InGaAsP electroabsorption modulator. The use of low fibre dispersion and large separation of solitons was effective in increasing the transmission distance up to 13100 km with less than 10^-9 bit error rate. The obtained transmission capacity of 65 Tbit/s km is the largest reported for soliton transmission experiments without soliton control.

Keywords

digital communication systems; error statistics; fibre lasers; laser beam applications; optical fibres; optical links; optical modulation; optical solitons; 13100 km; 5 Gbit/s; 65 Tbit/s; BER; EDFA; Er-doped fibre amplifier system; Gordon-Haus limit; InGaAsP; bit error rate; data coded solitons; electroabsorption modulator; low fibre dispersion; maximum transmission length; optical fibre links; optical short pulses; soliton transmission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics Letters

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0013-5194

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/el:19931094

Filename

233094