Title : 
Interchannel soliton collisions in periodic dispersion maps in the presence of third order dispersion with loss and amplification
         
        
            Author : 
Diaz-Otero, Francisco J. ; Chamorro-Posada, Pedro
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. de Teor. de la Senal y Comun., Univ. de Vigo, Vigo
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We study the effects of third-order dispersion in wavelength division multiplexed soliton transmission systems using periodic dispersion maps. For this purpose, loss and lumped amplification have been included in a previous ODE model obtained using the variational method and a Gaussian ansatz. We present a detailed analysis of how TOD affects the collision-induced frequency shifts of the transmitted pulses.
         
        
            Keywords : 
optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical solitons; variational techniques; wavelength division multiplexing; Gaussian ansatz; interchannel soliton collisions; lumped amplification; periodic dispersion maps; third-order dispersion; transmitted pulse collision-induced frequency shifts; variational method; wavelength division multiplexed soliton transmission systems; Frequency; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical pulses; Propagation losses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse shaping methods; Solitons; Space vector pulse width modulation; Telecommunication standards; Wavelength division multiplexing; Dispersion management; optical fiber communication; optical soliton; third order dispersion; wavelength division multiplexing;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Laser and Fiber-Optical Networks Modeling, 2008. LFNM 2008. 9th International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Crimea
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-2526-6
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-2527-3
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/LFNM.2008.4670351