Stepwise dispersion profiling of periodically amplified soliton systems

Author

Forysiak, W. ; Knox, F.M. ; Doran, N.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng. & Appl. Phys., Birmingham Univ., UK

Volume

12

Issue

8

fYear

1994

fDate

8/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1330

Lastpage

1337

Abstract

Average soliton propagation in periodically amplified optical fiber systems with stepwise varying dispersion is studied analytically and numerically. A simple scheme for determining optimal profiles is described and generalized design diagrams in terms of the average system dispersion and net periodic loss are presented. n-fold optimal profiling is shown to be as effective in reducing perturbations to the average soliton as n-fold reduction of the amplifier spacing. Hence, stable soliton propagation for communications applications well beyond the usually accepted limits is proposed

Keywords

fibre lasers; optical dispersion; optical fibre theory; optical fibres; optical links; optical solitons; amplifier spacing; average soliton propagation; average system dispersion; communications applications; generalized design diagrams; n-fold optimal profiling; n-fold reduction; net periodic loss; optimal profiles; periodically amplified optical fiber systems; periodically amplified soliton systems; reducing perturbations; stable soliton propagation; stepwise dispersion profiling; stepwise varying dispersion; Nonlinear distortion; Optical amplifiers; Optical distortion; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical losses; Optical propagation; Optical solitons; Pulse amplifiers; Space vector pulse width modulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.317518

Filename

317518