Ultrahigh-speed long-distance TDM and WDM soliton transmission technologies

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 363-396

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

^a NTT Network Innovation Laboratories   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; LIGHT MODULATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SOLITONS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DISPERSION MANAGEMENT; DISPERSION SHIFTED FIBER; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER; NONLINEAR SCHRODINGER EQUATION; OPTICAL SOLITONS; SOLITON TRANSMISSION;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0034156338     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.847771     Document Type: Article

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