title: Role of interaction in causing errors in optical soliton transmission.
abstract: We consider two solitons propagating under a filter-control scheme and describe the timing jitter that is caused by spontaneous-emission noise and enhanced by attraction between solitons. We find the bit-error rate as a function of system parameters (filtering and noise level), timing, initial distance, and the phase difference between solitons.
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authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Falkovich
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Stepanov