Experimental demonstration of soliton transmission over 28 Mm using mostly normal dispersion fiber

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 130-132

  Jacob, J M ^a,b   Golovchenko, E A ^a   Pilipetskii, A N ^a   Carter, G M ^a,b   Menyuk, C R ^a,b  

^a University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

^b LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion management; Long distance optical communications; Solitons

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SOLITONS;

DISPERSION MANAGEMENT; FIBER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM; NORMAL DISPERSION FIBER;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0030736342     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.554532     Document Type: Article

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