New Trends in Optical Soliton Transmission Systems : Proceedings of the Symposium Held in Kyoto, Japan, 18–21 November 1997

This book summarizes the proceedings of the invited talks presented at the International Symposium on New Trends in Optical Soliton Transmission Systems held in Kyoto during November 18 - 21, 1997. As a result of worldwide demand for ultra high bitrate transmissions and increased scientific interest from the soliton community, research on optical solitons in fibres has made remarkable progress in recent years. In view of these trends, 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. As with the 1 st ROSC symposium, this symposium attracted enthusiastic response from worldwide researchers involved in the subject of soliton based communications and intensive discussions were held throughout the symposium. Particular emphases were made to dispersion managements of soliton transmission. I would like to note that in the }'t symposium the (adiabatic) dispersion managements just began to appear in reducing radiation at amplifiers and reducing collision effects in WDM system. These have become standard this time, but in addition new, non-adiabatic dispersion managements have been introduced independently by various scientists all over the world. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Propagation and Interaction of Optical Solitons in Fibers with Random Parameters....Pages 1-13 Soliton Jitter and Collisions in Birefringent Fibres....Pages 15-23 Soliton Stability in PMD Perturbed Transmission Systems....Pages 25-37 Role of the Dispersive Wave in Soliton Dynamics and Interactions....Pages 39-51 Generation of High-Repetition-Rate Dark Soliton Trains and Frequency Conversion in Optical Fibers....Pages 53-67 Studies on Signal Propagation in Optical Fibers with Randomly Varying Birefringence....Pages 69-81 Ultra-Long Distance Soliton Transmission Line Design by Two-Dimensional Pulse Width Evaluation Method....Pages 83-92 Practical Design of Dispersion Managed Soliton System....Pages 93-102 Photon-Number Noise of Spectrally Filtered Optical Solitons....Pages 103-115 Variational Approach to Transmission in DM Long Optical Links....Pages 117-129 Nonlinear Chirped RZ and NRZ Pulses in Optical Transmission Lines....Pages 131-153 Circulating Loop Experiments on Solitons with Periodic Dispersion Management....Pages 155-166 20 GBIT/S PDM Soliton Transmission Experiment in Dispersion Compensated Standard Fiber Systems....Pages 167-181 Dynamics of Dispersion-Managed Solitons in Optical Communications....Pages 183-195 Superb Characteristics of Dispersion-Allocated Soliton Transmission in TDM and WDM Systems....Pages 197-224 Theory of Guiding-Center Breathing Soliton Propagation in Optical Communication Systems with Strong Dispersion Management....Pages 225-243 Analysis of Gordon-Haus Jitter in Dispersion Compensated Optical Fibers....Pages 245-260 Four-Wave Mixing in Fiber Links with Dispersion Management....Pages 261-270 Statistical Properties of Signals Travelling in Noisy Nonlinearly Dispersive Optical Channels....Pages 271-283 Dispersion Management Issues in Long Amplifier-Spacing Frequency-Guiding Multiwavelength Soliton Systems....Pages 285-301 Remarkable Features of DM Solitons: Implications for High Speed and WDM Systems....Pages 303-316 Transmission Systems Based on Dispersion-Managed Solitons: Theory and Experiment....Pages 317-340 Transmission and Collision of Quasi-Solitons in Dispersion Managed Optical Fibers....Pages 341-353 Long-Haul Soliton WDM Transmission with Periodic Dispersion Compensation and Dispersion Slope Compensation....Pages 355-365 Ultrafast Networks Using High-Speed RZ Optical Pulses for Transmission, Routing and Processing....Pages 367-380 40 GBIT/S Transmission Using Optical Time-Division Multiplexing and Demultiplexing....Pages 381-390 Broadband and Gain-Flattened Optical Fiber Amplifiers....Pages 391-402 Passively Mode-Locked Semiconductor Lasers Stabilized by Subharmonic Electrical Injection and Their Application to Millimeter Wave Photonics....Pages 403-418 Ultrafast Soliton Multiple-Access Networks....Pages 419-424 Star Project....Pages 425-430 ESTHER Project: Practical Implementation of Solitons....Pages 431-443 Soliton Transmission in the European Network....Pages 445-458 European Union ACTS Project MIDAS: Objectives and Progress to Date....Pages 459-471 Back Matter....Pages 473-490 This book summarizes the invited papers presented at the International Symposium on New Trends in Optical Soliton Transmission Systems held in Kyoto, Japan in the fall of 1997. The symposium is the second of the series and is considered to be the most representative symposium on the use of optical solitons for ultrafast communications. In particular, this symposium focuses on the newly developed technologies of dispersion management to improve soliton transmission capabilities. Studies of properties of new solitons that appear in fibres with periodic variation of dispersion are also presented.