Measurement of timing jitter in filter-guided soliton transmission at 10 Gbits/s and achievement of 375 Gbits/s-Mm, error free, at 125 and 15 Gbits/s
- 15 May 1994
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 19 (10) , 704-706
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.19.000704
Abstract
We report on extensive measurement, as a function of distance, of the timing jitter in sliding-frequency-filter-guided soliton transmission at 10 Gbits/s. The measured jitter is separated into a sliding-filter-damped, Gordon–Haus term, a similarly damped acoustic term, and a recently predicted contribution from scatter in pulse polarizations. Measured error-free (bit-error rate −10) distances at 10, 12.5, and 15 Gbits/s are 35, 30, and 25 Mm, respectively.Keywords
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