Bit-error-rate investigation of two-channel soliton propagation over more than 10 000 km

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Abstract
Two wavelength division multiplexed soliton pulse trains (2 × 2Gbit/s 0101 …) have been propagated more than 9000km with less than 10−9 bit error rate for both channels. Soliton collisions have no effect on the error rate for wavelength separations larger than 7 Å or for collisions centred inside the fibre.