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Soliton transmission is a promising technology for future undersea communication systems, owing specifically to its very high capacity potential (>40-100 Gbit/s), the possibility of long amplifier/repeater spacings (>60-100 km), and increased transmission distances (>10,000 km). In order to achieve such performance, however, various soliton transmission control techniques are required. To date, the two main types of soliton control is either purely passive (fixed or sliding frequency-guiding filters), or active (synchronous modulation with guiding-filtering). The first approach is fully compatible with wavelength-division multiplexing, advantageously providing routing functionality. The second enables full signal regeneration, yielding enhanced system margins and virtually removing transmission distance limitations. In this paper, we first discuss the key technologies of soliton transmission, and then present recent experimental results obtained in our laboratory for both types of soliton systems.
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Desurvire, E., Chesnoy, J. (1996). Alternatives for Soliton Transmission over Transoceanic Distances. In: Hasegawa, A. (eds) Physics and Applications of Optical Solitons in Fibres ’95. Solid-State Science and Technology Library, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1736-1_16
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