Soliton Stability in PMD Perturbed Transmission Systems
Book chapter, 1998
This paper presents a detailed investigation of how solitons broaden in the presence of polarization-mode dispersion (PMD). For a given degree of PMD and pulse width there exists an optimum choice of group-velocity dispersion, for which solitons are most resistant to the effects of PMD. We also optimize the soliton power enhancement factor and find that solitons can propagate roughly twice the distance compared to linear pulses in the absence of group-velocity dispersion. Finally we investigate the PMD robustness of dispersion managed solitons, and in the case simulated we find no quantitative difference as compared to conventional solitons.
polarization-mode dispersion
fiber-optic communications
nonlinear Schrödinger equation
Optical Solitons
Author
Magnus Karlsson
Department of Optoelectronics and Electrical Measurements
Xiupu Zhang
Department of Optoelectronics and Electrical Measurements
Peter Andrekson
Department of Optoelectronics and Electrical Measurements
Kent Bertilsson
Ericsson
New Trends in Optical Soliton Transmission Systems
25-37
978-94-011-5141-2 (ISBN)
Subject Categories
Other Physics Topics
Fluid Mechanics and Acoustics
Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
DOI
10.1007/978-94-011-5141-2_3