Long-Distance Soliton Transmission up to 20 Gbit/s Using Alternating-Amplitude Solitons and Optical TDM

Masatoshi SUZUKI
Noboru EDAGAWA
Hidenori TAGA
Hideaki TANAKA
Shu YAMAMOTO
Yukitoshi TAKAHASHI
Shigeyuki AKIBA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics   Vol.E78-C    No.1    pp.12-21
Publication Date: 1995/01/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section INVITED PAPER (Special Issue on Ultrafast Optoelectronics)
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optical soliton,  soliton pulse generator,  optical demultiplexer,  alternating-amplitude soliton,  EDFA,  multi-ten Gbit/s long-haul transmission,  

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Summary: 
Feasibility of 20 Gbit/s single channel transoceanic soliton transmission systems with a simple EDFA repeaters configuration has been studied. Both a simple and versatile soliton pulse generator and a polarization insensitive optical demultiplexer, which can provide a almost square shape optical gate with duration of full bit time period, have been proposed and demonstrated by using sinusoidally modulated electroabsorption modulators. The optical time-division multiplexing/demultiplexing scheme using the optical demultiplexer results in drastic improvement of bit error rate characteristics. We have experimentally confirmed that the use of alternating-amplitude solitons is an efficient way to mitigate not only soliton-soliton interaction but also Gordon-Haus timing jitter constraints in multi-ten Gbit/s soliton transmission. Timing jitter reduction using relatively wide band optical filter bas been investigated in 20 Gbit/s loop experiments and single-carrier, single-polarization 20 Gbit/s soliton data transmission over 11500 km with bit error rate of below 10-9 has been experimentally demonstrated, using the modulator-based soliton source, the optical demultiplexer, the alternation-amplitude solitons, and wide-band optical filters. Obtained 230 Tbit/skm transmission capacity shows the feasibility of 20 Gbit/s single channel soliton transoceanic systems using fully practical technologies.