Abstract

Recent experimental demonstration of data transmission based on dark solitons [1] has renewed the efforts to the use this type of soliton for various optical applications. Although generation of a modulated stream of dark solitons is a more difficult task than that of bright ones, dark solitons are believed to display some advantages over bright solitons, including lower Gordon-Haus jitter [2]. At the same time, one of the main problems associated with dark-soliton signal transmission is higher average power. In order the reduce the power, the operational wavelength should be selected closer to the zero group-velocity dispersion. Hence, the dark soliton propagation can be affected by the third-order dispersion.

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