Soliton stability in optical fibers with polarization-mode dispersion

Author

Zhang, Xiupu ; Karlsson, Magnus ; Andrekson, Peter A. ; Bertilsson, Kent

Author_Institution

Dept. of Optoelectron. & Electr. Meas., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg, Sweden

Volume

10

Issue

3

fYear

1998

fDate

3/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

376

Lastpage

378

Abstract

This letter presents a detailed investigation of how solitons broaden in the presence of polarization-mode dispersion. For a given amount of polarization-mode dispersion and pulsewidth there exists an optimal choice of group-velocity dispersion, for which solitons are most resistant to the effect of polarization-mode dispersion. 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.

Keywords

optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre theory; optical solitons; stability; group-velocity dispersion; linear pulses; optical fibers; optimal choice; polarization-mode dispersion; pulsewidth; soliton power enhancement factor; soliton stability; Birefringence; Computational modeling; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical pulses; Polarization mode dispersion; Solitons; Stability;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.661415

Filename

661415