Abstract

In long-distance, periodically amplified soliton communication systems, the principal limit to transmission line capacity arises from spontaneous emission noise introduced at each optical amplifier. Tire resulting effect, first analyzed, by Gordon and Haus,¹ is a timing jitter in the soliton arrival time at the receiver, whose magnitude limits the bit interval and therefore the data rate. Recently, it has been shown that soliton timing jitter can he reduced by inline optical filters. In this paper, we show that the jitter can also be substantially reduced by post transmission dispersion compensation.

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