Stable soliton transmission in the system with nonlinear gain

Author

Matsumoto, Masayuki ; Ikeda, Hiroki ; Uda, Tetsuya ; Hasegawa, Akira

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. Eng., Osaka Univ., Japan

Volume

13

Issue

4

fYear

1995

fDate

4/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

658

Lastpage

665

Abstract

It is shown that the linear-wave growth in bandwidth-limited-amplified soliton transmission can be suppressed by a selective amplification of solitons by means of nonlinear gain that can be realized by using fast saturable absorbers. Numerical simulations assuming the use of nonlinear amplifying loop mirrors (NALM´s) as the nonlinear-gain element show that 20 Gb/s soliton trains can be transmitted over transoceanic distances, Wavelength-division multiplexing is also feasible if demulti/multiplexers are used just before and after the NALM

Keywords

demultiplexing equipment; mirrors; optical fibre communication; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; simulation; stability; submarine cables; wavelength division multiplexing; 20 Gbit/s; bandwidth-limited-amplified soliton transmission; demultiplexers; fast saturable absorbers; linear-wave growth; multiplexers; nonlinear amplifying loop mirrors; nonlinear gain; nonlinear-gain element; numerical simulation; selective soliton amplification; soliton trains; stable soliton transmission; transoceanic distances; wavelength-division multiplexing; Degradation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Filters; Frequency; Mirrors; Narrowband; Numerical simulation; Optical amplifiers; Solitons; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.372478

Filename

372478