Abstract

In ultralong distance soliton transmission systems the limit to the single channel bit rate is defined by jitter in the pulse arrival time. The fundamental origin of the time jitter is the change of the soliton central frequency due to a perturbation of the soliton parameters.¹ Such perturbations can arise from spontaneous emission noise in optical amplifiers (the Gordon-Haus effect), partial overlapping of adjacent pulses (classical soliton–soliton interaction effect), or excitation of a weak acoustic wave.

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