title: Experimental study of soliton transmission over more than 10,000 km in dispersiondaggershifted fiber.
abstract: Transmission of 50-psec solitons in a 75-km recirculating loop of dispersion-shifted fiber (D = 1.38 psec/nm/km at lambda(s)), using low-gain erbium amplifiers spaced 25 km apart, displays jitter in pulse arrival times consistent with low error rates for transmission over 9000 km and for bit rates ?4 Gbits/sec. Furthermore, a study of soliton pair propagation in the same loop shows no significant interaction over 9000 km for pair spacings >/=5tau.
authors.forename: L F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Mollenauer
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Neubelt
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Evangelides
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Gordon
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Simpson
authors.forename: L G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Cohen