APPLICATION OF OPTICAL SOLITONS FOR INFORMATION TRANSFER IN FIBERS - A TUTORIAL REVIEW

摘要

The manuscript presents a tutorial review of application of optical solitons for information transfer in optical fibers. Starting with introduction of fundamental concept of dielectric response, dispersive and nonlinear effects in fibers, it derives the master equation, the nonlinear Schroedinger equation (NLSE) that describes information transfer in fibers and soliton solution. The dispersion managed soliton and Lagrangian approach for solving NLSE will also be presented as a practical application of soliton concept for ultra-high speed optical communications.