Abstract

It is shown numerically that the amplification and accumulation of noise and other dispersive waves in bandwidth-limited soliton transmission can be suppressed by the use of nonlinear amplifying loop mirrors that selectively amplify solitons. This scheme offers an alternative possibility for achieving stable ultralong-distance optical soliton transmission.

© 1994 Optical Society of America

Adiabatic amplification of solitons by means of nonlinear amplifying loop mirrors

Masayuki Matsumoto, Akira Hasegawa, and Yuji Kodama
Opt. Lett. 19(14) 1019-1021 (1994)

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Spectral filtering of solitons by means of a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror

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