Recent Progress on Optical Soliton Communication

Hirokazu KUBOTA  Masataka NAKAZAWA  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E74-A   No.6   pp.1373-1378
Publication Date: 1991/06/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: INVITED PAPER (Special Issue on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications)
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Summary: 
Recently, most of the difficult problems which prevented the realization of soliton communication have been solved by using the so-called erbium-doped optical fiber amplifiers (EDFAs). These amplifiers can provide a larger gain with a lower pumping power than the Raman process. In this paper, we describe how we were able to realize an actual soliton transmission system which utilizes lumped amplifiers instead of distributed amplifiers. A data transmission experiment at 10 Gbit/s 300 km is presented.