40 Gb/s single-channel soliton transmission over transoceanic distances byreducing Gordon-Haus timing jitter and soliton-soliton interaction

Forty Gb/s single-channel soliton transmission experiments using periodic d ispersion compensation were conducted. The impact of the dispersion map on the transmission performance was experimentally investigated. The transmiss ion performance was significantly varied with the dispersion map, The impro vement of the transmission performance by the polarization division multipl exing, which reduced soliton-soliton interaction furthermore, was also conf irmed, By using the polarization division multiplexing in the optimum dispe rsion map, 40 Gb/s single-channel transmission over 10 200 km has been succ essfully demonstrated without any active inline transmission control.