ACOUSTIC EFFECT AND CORRELATED ERRORS IN SOLITON INFORMATION-TRANSMISSION

The acoustic effect significantly increases the timing jitter of solit ons in communication lines. We calculate the correlation in near-neigh bor soliton time shifts that result from the acoustic interaction and show that the acoustic effect can cause correlated errors that cannot be corrected with standard, simple error-correction codes such as the Hamming code. (C) 1996 Optical Society of America