Analysis of timing jitter for ultrashort soliton communication systems using perturbation methods

We analyse timing jitter of ultrashort soliton systems taking into account; the major higher order effects, namely, intrapulse Raman scattering and th ird order dispersion and using adiabatic perturbation theory. We obtain an expression for the soliton arrival time variance that depends on the quinti c power of propagation distance. This timing jitter could be partly overcom e by use of bandwidth-limited amplification as it happens in systems using longer solitons. In this case the quintic dependence with distance is reduc ed to a linear one.