Effect of distributed Raman amplification on timing jitter in dispersion-managed lightwave systems

It is shown that the timing jitter of dispersion-managed soliton systems can be reduced by up to 40% by using a hybrid amplification scheme in which fiber losses are compensated by using erbium-doped fiber amplifiers in combination with backward pumped Raman gain. The jitter is smallest in the case of 100% Raman amplification, but considerable reduction occurs even for partial distributed amplification.