With computer simulation, we study soliton propagation in an all optical, long distance communications system where fiber loss is periodically compensated by Raman gain.
We report soliton self-frequency shift of over 20% of the optical frequency in a tapered air-silica microstructure fiber that exhibits a widely flattened large anomalous dispersion in the near infr
Soliton self-frequency shift, a consequence of Raman self-pumping that continuously red-shifts a soliton pulse, has been widely studied recently for applications to fiber-based sources and signal p
We demonstrate what is to our knowledge the first all-fiber squeezing experiment.
We demonstrate, for the first time to our knowledge, the generation of squeezed light by means of soliton self-phase modulation in microstructure fiber.
We show experimentally that solitons along two axes of fiber compensate for the birefringence by shifting their frequencies.
We show experimentally the trapping of orthogonally polarized solitons in birefringent optical fibers with polarization dispersions as high as 90 psec/km.
Solitonic effects such as soliton self-frequency shift and pulse compresssion were observed in a novel tapered air-silica microstructure fiber.
To understand why optical solitons are needed in optical fiber communication systems, we should consider the problems that limit the distance and/or capacity of optical data transmission.
This paper reviews the experimental study of solitons in optical fibers.
