OPTIMIZING TRANSMISSION CAPACITY - LONG-DISTANCE AND TERRESTRIAL APPLICATIONS

This paper identifies the important limiting processes in transmission capacity for amplified soliton systems. Some novel control techniques are described for optimizing this capacity. In particular, dispersion compensation and phase conjugation are identified as offering good co ntrol of jitter without the need for many new components in the system . An advanced average soliton model is described and demonstrated to p ermit large amplifier spacing. The potential for solitons in high-disp ersion land-based systems is discussed and results are presented showi ng 10 Gbit s(-1) transmission over 1000 km with significant amplifier spacing.