Title :
Novel fibers for soliton communications
Author_Institution :
Sci. & Technol. Div., Corning Inc., NY, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. Solitons continue to be an active area of research for high-capacity transmission and high-speed all-optical processing. In conjunction with proposed system architectures and optical processing configurations are fiber designs with new radial refractive-index profiles and introducing axial variation. This talk reviews recent developments in fiber design and fabrication that may enable the commercial deployment of soliton networks. Fibers with high nonlinearity, dispersion tapering and built-in dispersion management will be discussed in detail.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre fabrication; optical pulse compression; optical solitons; phase modulation; axial variation; built-in dispersion management; commercial deployment; dispersion tapering; fiber design; fiber fabrication; high nonlinearity; high-capacity transmission; high-speed all-optical processing; nonlinear optical loop mirrors; outside vapor deposition; radial refractive-index profiles; self-phase modulation; soliton communications; soliton networks; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber losses; Optical fibers; Optical pulse shaping; Optical refraction; Optical solitons; Optical wavelength conversion;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 1998. OFC '98., Technical Digest
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-521-8
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.1998.657170
