Experimental demonstration of long-distance dispersion-managed soliton propagation at zero average dispersion

Abstract

Abstract-We observed for the first time stable propagation of dispersion-managed solitons with zero or slightly normal average dispersion over 28 000 km in a recirculating fiber loop. Comparison between theory and experiment provides a highly sensitive estimate of the average dispersion.Index Terms-Optical fiber communication, optical fiber dispersion, optical propagation in nonlinear media, optical solitons.