Transmitters, Receivers, and Noise in Soliton Communications
Abstract
Work on a four-year project to investigate soliton communications is summarized. Topics that we worked on included: (1) soliton switching, (2) polarization effects, (3) transmission impairments and signal processing, (4) soliton lasers, (5) non-Gaussian noise, (6) wave-length division multiplexing, and (7) dispersion-managed solitons. During this period, the outlook for soliton communications was poor for much of the time due to the great success of NRZ communication schemes however, the recent advent of dispersion-managed solitons, to which we contributed both theoretically and experimentally, has turned the situation around. By contrast, the outlook for all-optical switching using solitons has become increasingly grim.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 17, 1997
- Accession Number
- ADA334842
Entities
People
- Curtis R. Menyuk
Organizations
- University of Maryland, Baltimore