Pinning method of pulse confinement in optical fiber with random dispersion
Abstract
Pulse propagation in optical fiber links with randomness in the dispersion is investigated theoretically and numerically for systems with and without dispersion management. The main effects of locally correlated noise are inevitable pulse destruction and statistical broadening. However, periodic/quasi-periodic management of fiber randomness, achieved by setting the accumulated dispersion to its nominal value (pinning), essentially decreases pulse broadening. If the pinning period is short enough, we observe a statistical state that is numerically indistinguishable from the steady state in the dispersion-managed case.
- Publication:
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Journal of the Optical Society of America B Optical Physics
- Pub Date:
- November 2002
- DOI:
- 10.1364/JOSAB.19.002538
- Bibcode:
- 2002JOSAB..19.2538C
- Keywords:
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- optical fibre dispersion;
- optical fibre communication;
- statistical analysis;
- telecommunication network management;
- optical Kerr effect;
- optical fibre theory;
- optical solitons