Physics and Applications of Optical Solitons in Fibres ’95

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Dispersion as Control Parameter in Soliton Transmission Systems

   • N. J. Doran, N. J. Smith, W. Forysiak, F. M. Knox

   Pages 1-14

3. Dispersion Managements on Soliton Transmission in Fibers with Lumped Amplifiers

   • Y. Kodama, S. Kumar, A. Hasegawa

   Pages 15-26

4. A Dispersion-Allocated Soliton and its Impact on Soliton Communication

   • Hirokazu Kubota, Masataka Nakazawa

   Pages 27-36

5. NRZ Soliton Transmission Scheme

   • M. Haelterman, M. Badolo, A. P. Sheppard

   Pages 37-52

6. Perturbed Solitons in Birefringent Fibres

   • J. N. Elgin

   Pages 53-58

7. Parametric Cooling of Solitons

   • V. S. Grigoryan, A. Hasegawa, A. Maruta

   Pages 59-73

8. Nonlinear Theory of Soliton Instabilities

   • Y. S. Kivshar, D. E. Pelinovsky, V. V. Afanasjev, A. V. Buryak

   Pages 75-87

9. Stochastic Instability of Chirped Optical Solitons in Media with Periodic Amplification

   • F. KH. Abdullaev

   Pages 89-98

10. Femtosecond Pulse Generation from Semiconductor Lasers Using Soliton Effect Compression and its Application to Ultrafast Electro-Optic Sampling Measurements

    • H. F. Liu, T. Kamiya

    Pages 99-114

11. Ultrahigh Bit Rate Generation and Applications

    • S. V. Chernikov, M. J. Guy, J. R. Taylor

    Pages 115-128

12. Monolithic Mode-Locked Semiconductor Lasers for High Speed Optical Communication Systems

    • S. Arahira, Y. Ogawa, Y. Matsui

    Pages 129-144

13. Generation of Solitonic Pulses in Cw-Pumped Brillouin or Raman Fiber-Ring Lasers

    • Carlos Montes

    Pages 145-161

14. High-Speed Fiber Transmission Using Optical Phase Conjugation

    • Shigeki Watanabe, Terumi Chikama

    Pages 163-176

15. Design and Characterization of Optical Fibers for High Capacity Transmission

    • Masayuki Nishimura

    Pages 177-189

16. Application of Optical Soliton for Ultra-Fast Long-Haul Transmission and Measurement Technology

    • K. Iwatsuki

    Pages 191-207

17. Alternatives for Soliton Transmission over Transoceanic Distances

    • E. Desurvire, J. Chesnoy

    Pages 209-236

18. Soliton Family and Solitonics

    • Yoichi Fujii

    Pages 237-247

19. Optical Cavitons

    • Stefan Wabnitz

    Pages 249-261

20. Linear Perspective of Solitons

    • A. W. Snyder, D. J. Mitchell, Y. S. Kivshar

    Pages 263-275

This book summarizes the proceedings of the invited talks presented at the International Symposium of Physics and Application of Optical Solitons in Fibers held in Kyoto during November 14 to 17,1995. As a result of worldwide demand for ultra high bitrate transmissions and increased scientific interests from the soliton community, research on optical solitons in fibers has made a remarkable progress in recent years. In view of these trends, and with the support of the Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, the Research Group for Optical Soliton Communications (ROSC), chaired by Akira Hasegawa, was established in Japan in April 1995 to promote collaboration and information exchange 'among communication service companies, industries and academic circles in the theory and application of optical solitons. This symposium was organized as a part of the ROSC activities. The symposium attracted enthusiastic response by worldwide researchers involved in this subject which has lead to the most intensive meeting that the editor ever attended. The reader will find the contents to be well-balanced among theory, experiment and technology. Although the evaluation of the contents shall naturally depend on the particular area of interest of the reader, the symposium has confirmed that the soliton based light wave transmission has achieved the best result in one channel, both in distance of transmission and in bitrate although in wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) systems, NRZ transmission has yet better result.

• Dispersion
• Phase
• Transmission
• birefringence
• communication
• communication systems
• laser
• optical communication
• polarization
• semiconductor

• Department of Communication Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Japan

  Akira Hasegawa

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