title: Timing-jitter reduction for a dispersion-managed soliton system: experimental evidence.
abstract: We have measured the timing jitter for dispersion-managed solitons in a recirculating loop for distances up to 20,000 km. The data were obtained with modulated data, 2(7) - 1 and 2(23) - 1 pseudorandom binary sequence patterns, at 10-Gbit/s rates and with an unmodulated pulse train at 10 GHz. We have obtained good agreement with our data, using a filtered Gordon-Haus model for the timing jitter reduced by the energy enhancement of our solitons relative to solitons in a fiber with a constant dispersion equal to our map's path-average dispersion. We have also measured a bit-error rate of <10(-9) at a distance of 15,000 km.
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Carter
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Jacob
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Menyuk
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Golovchenko
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Pilipetskii