Abstract
Digitally-coded optical solitons at 5 and 10 Gbit/s have been successfully transmitted over 400 and 300 km, respectively, using erbium-doped fiber amplifiers and repeaters. The soliton pulse source is a gain-switch distributed-feedback laser diode with spectral windowing. The repeater spacing for the 10 Gbit /s transmission with an input soliton of A = 1.4 is 25 km, which is extended to 50 km for the 5 Gbit/s transmission with an input soliton of N = 1.8-2.0.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2095-2102 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics |
Volume | 26 |
Issue number | 12 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1990 Dec |