Long distance communications with solitons
- 1 December 1994
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Quantum Optics: Journal of the European Optical Society Part B
- Vol. 6 (6) , 463-516
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0954-8998/6/6/001
Abstract
A theoretical review of the use of optical solitons in fibres for high speed communication is presented with emphasis on recent progress in soliton control. An optical soliton is a pulse of light in a fibre produced by a balance of group velocity dispersion and cubic non-linearity. Twenty years after its discovery, optical solitons are rapidly attracting interest from technical as well as scientific communities thanks to progress in coherent light source, fibre amplifier and other photonic devices and surprising agreement of the theoretical predictions with experimental observations.Keywords
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