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Solitons in the context of optical fibre communications: A review

N. VIJAYAKUMAR1,* , NISHA S. NAIR1

Affiliation

  1. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, College of Engineering Trivandrum, 695 016 Kerala, India

Abstract

Resilience to Group Velocity Dispersion (GVD) and Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD) makes optical solitons attractive for multigigabit data transmission by exploiting the ultimate capacity of the optical fibres. In optical fibres solitons can evolve by choosing appropriate pulse and fibre parameters to obtain a counter balancing of GVD and Self Phase Modulation (SPM). This paper provides a thorough review of the optical solitons giving emphasis to the developments in optical communications, highlighting all important milestones over the last few decades..

Keywords

Self phase modulation, Gordon Haus jitter, Soliton self frequency shift, Soliton-soliton interaction, Erbium doped fibre amplifier, Wavelength division multiplexing.

Submitted at: Nov. 6, 2007
Accepted at: Dec. 7, 2007

Citation

N. VIJAYAKUMAR, NISHA S. NAIR, Solitons in the context of optical fibre communications: A review, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 9, Iss. 12, pp. 3702-3714 (2007)