Dynamics of solitons in filtered dispersion-managed systems

Author

Carter, Gary M. ; Jacob, John M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Maryland Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA

Volume

10

Issue

4

fYear

1998

fDate

4/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

546

Lastpage

548

Abstract

We present measurements of the temporal evolution of soliton propagation in a dispersion managed fiber transmission line containing one optical bandpass filter in each map period. The pulses expand and compress in time due to the local dispersion with two minima per map cycle, one in the middle of the anomalous and the other in the middle of the normal section of the fiber map. The pulses are nearly transform limited at the minima with Gaussian-like spectra. A new type of soliton behavior is indicated by the fact that the dynamics, measured bit-error rate (BER), excess gain, and pulse stability do not vary with path-averaged dispersion from 0.02 to 0.08 ps/nm/km.

Keywords

band-pass filters; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre filters; optical fibre testing; optical solitons; telecommunication network management; Gaussian-like spectra; dispersion managed fiber transmission line; excess gain; fiber map; filtered dispersion-managed system soliton dynamics; local dispersion; measured bit-error rate; nearly transform limited pulses; optical bandpass filter; optical fibre measurement; path-averaged dispersion; pulse stability; soliton behavior; temporal evolution; Band pass filters; Bit error rate; Dispersion; Optical fiber filters; Optical filters; Optical propagation; Optical pulses; Pulse measurements; Solitons; Transmission line measurements;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.662589

Filename

662589