Solitons in dispersion-compensated optical fibers with loss

A dispersion-compensated optical fiber is proposed for optical soliton propagation. The scheme is studied by a variational approach. Numerical analyses show that the proposed scheme can retain the soliton property for a much longer distance than normal systems. It is shown that, after 48 km, the pulsewidth in the proposed system remains similar to the initial pulsewidth, whereas in the normal system, the pulsewidth has already reached 10 times the initial value. It is demonstrated that significant improvements in soliton propagation characteristics can be achieved by properly cascading fibers with different degrees of group velocity dispersion in finite steps