Experimental demonstration of soliton propagation in long fibers: loss compensated by Raman gain

Abstract

With sufficient Raman gain to compensate exactly for net fiber energy loss, we have demonstrated distortionless propagation of 10-psec FWHM fundamental (N = 1) soliton pulses (λ = 1.56 μm) over a 10-km length of singlemode fiber. The implications of this experiment for development of an all-optical, high-bit-rate, long-distance telecommunications system are discussed briefly.

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