Ultrahigh Speed Optical Soliton Communication Using Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers

Eiichi YAMADA, Kazunori SUZUKI, Hirokazu KUBOTA, Masataka NAKAZAWA

Summary :

Optical soliton transmissions at 10 and 20Gbit/s over 1000km with the use of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers are described in detail. For the 10Gbit/s experiment, a bit error rate (BER) of below 110^-13 was obtained with 2²⁰-1 pseudorandom patterns and the power penalty was less than 0.1dB. In the 20Gbit/s experiment optical multiplexing and demultiplexing techniques were used and a BER of below 110^-12 was obtained with 2²³-1 pseudorandom patterns under a penalty-free condition. A new technique for sending soliton pulses over ultralong distances is presented which incorporates synchronous shaping and retiming using a high speed optical modulator. Some experimental results over 1 million km at 7.210Gbit/s are described. This technique enables us to overcome the Gordon-Haus limit, the accumulation of amplified spontaneous emission (ASE), and the effect of interaction forces between adjacent solitons. It is also shown by computer runs and a simple analysis that a one hundred million km soliton transmission is possible by means of soliton transmission controls in the time and frequency domains. This means that limit-free transmission is possible.

• Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E76-B No.4 pp.410-419
• Publication Date: 1993/04/25
• Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Optical Fiber Cables and Related Technologies)

Authors

Eiichi YAMADA
Kazunori SUZUKI
Hirokazu KUBOTA
Masataka NAKAZAWA

Keyword

optical soliton,  EDFA,  transmission experiment,  power penalty-free,  synchronous modulation,  ASE