Recent progress in soliton transmission technology

Chaos

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 486-514

  Nakazawa, Masataka ^a   Kubota, Hirokazu ^a   Suzuki, Kazunori ^a   Yamada, Eiichi ^a   Sahara, Akio ^a  

^a NTT Network Innovation Laboratories   (Japan)

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EID: 0000997772     PISSN: 10541500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1311394     Document Type: Review

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