Effect of soliton interaction on timing jitter in communication systems

Abstract

Timing jitter in soliton communication systems is studied, taking into account both soliton interaction and amplifier noise, Deviations from Gordon-Haus jitter for closely spaced solitons are observed. A new analytical model for the timing jitter is proposed, The model presented considers interaction in a random sequence of solitons and the effect of the amplified spontaneous emission noise added in each amplification stage, We obtain a good agreement between the new analytical model and simulation results for practical communication systems.