LOW JITTER LONG-DISTANCE PULSE TRANSMISSION NEAR NET FIBER DISPERSIONZERO WAVELENGTH

The authors study experimentally similar to 10ps return-to-zero pulse propagation near the net dispersion zero of an optical fibre transmiss ion line. Stable near-jitter-free propagation was observed over 70Mm. Pulse stabilisation and ASE suppression were achieved through the satu rable aborber mechanism of nonlinear polarisation rotation.