Abstract

The acoustic effect significantly increases the timing jitter of solitons and the bit-error rates in communication lines. We suggest the transmission of information with fixed-length blocks that contain an equal number of ones and zeros to suppress acoustically induced timing jitter. It is shown theoretically that this approach will significantly enhance the performance of systems with bit rates per channel higher than $20 \mathrm{Gbits}/\mathrm{s}$.

© 1997 Optical Society of America

Timing-jitter reduction for a dispersion-managed soliton system: experimental evidence

Gary M. Carter, John M. Jacob, Curtis R. Menyuk, Ekaterina A. Golovchenko, and Alexei N. Pilipetskii
Opt. Lett. 22(8) 513-515 (1997)

Electrostriction-induced acoustic effect in ultralong-distance soliton transmission systems

Yves Jaouën, Laurent du Mouza, and Guy Debarge
Opt. Lett. 23(15) 1185-1187 (1998)

Observation of a Raman-induced interpulse phase migration in the propagation of an ultrahigh-bit-rate coherent soliton train

Eric L. Buckland, Robert W. Boyd, and Alan F. Evans
Opt. Lett. 22(7) 454-456 (1997)

Periodic dispersion management in soliton wavelength-division multiplexing transmission with sliding filters

E. A. Golovchenko, A. N. Pilipetskii, and C. R. Menyuk
Opt. Lett. 22(15) 1156-1158 (1997)

Acoustic effect and correlated errors in soliton information transmission

A. N. Pilipetskii and C. R. Menyuk
Opt. Lett. 21(2) 119-121 (1996)