Title :
The good and bad of nonlinear effects in optical data transmission
Author_Institution :
Lucent Technol., AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
The importance of both linear and nonlinear effects increases very rapidly with the capacity of the transmission systems. The joint action of the linear and nonlinear effects produces a great variety of optical phenomena in transmission systems. Many of these effects can easily distort the signal so that the data will be completely lost. Nevertheless, by an appropriate design of the system one can greatly reduce the detrimental consequences of these phenomena and even extract important benefits from the nonlinear effects. This can be achieved when soliton pulses are used as the transmission bits. Solitons are nondispersive in the presence of the fiber dispersion and nonlinearity
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical solitons; joint action; nondispersive; nonlinear effects; optical data transmission; optical fiber dispersion; optical fibre communication; soliton pulses; transmission systems; Data communication; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Polarization mode dispersion; Solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1998. LEOS '98. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4947-4
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1998.739458
