Propagation of solitons in fibers with randomly varying birefringence: effects of soliton transmission control

Author

Matsumoto, Masayuki ; Akagi, Yasuaki ; Hasegawa, Akira

Author_Institution

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

Volume

15

Issue

4

fYear

1997

fDate

4/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

584

Lastpage

589

Abstract

Propagation of solitons in fibers with randomly varying birefringence is studied with and without including the effect of soliton transmission control. A simple expression for the decay of soliton energy due to the birefringence is derived, which will be useful in predicting soliton-pulse broadening in randomly birefringent fibers with their polarization-mode dispersion parameter specified. It is also shown that transmission control of solitons effectively removes dispersive radiations generated by the birefringence

Keywords

birefringence; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre theory; optical solitons; dispersive radiation; optical fibre communication; polarization-mode dispersion parameter; randomly birefringent fibers; randomly varying birefringence; soliton energy decay; soliton transmission control; soliton-pulse broadening; transmission control; Birefringence; Communication system control; Couplings; Nonlinear equations; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Polarization mode dispersion; Signal to noise ratio; Solitons;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.566679

Filename

566679