Zm. Liao et Gp. Agrawal, High-bit-rate soliton transmission using distributed amplification and dispersion management, IEEE PHOTON, 11(7), 1999, pp. 818-820
We show through numerical simulations that the use of distributed amplifica
tion together with dispersion management can permit single-channel speeds o
f 40 Gb/s over transoceanic distances while maintaining 100-km spacing betw
een pumping stations. We achieve this performance by using a bidirectional
pumping scheme and optimizing the dopant density such that the peak-power v
ariations over each fiber span remain below 0.4 dB, The required pump power
is less than 80 mW for a dopant density of 200 ions/mu m(3).