EFFECTS OF GORDON-HAUS JITTER ON SOLITON TRANSMISSION

The bit error rate (BER) performance of an optical soliton communicati on system is analyzed. Based on the jitter variance equation and the c hi-square distribution for the amplified spontaneous emission noise, a n analytic expression for the BER calculation is obtained. We have inv estigated the effects of Gordon-Haus fitter which is due to the random phase shift of the soliton individual central wavelength induced by t he amplified spontaneous emission noise of the amplifiers. Very good a greement has been obtained between our theory and the reported experim ental results.