Dispersion managed solitons: The key to terabit per second optical fiber communication systems

Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 35-39

  Forysiak, Wladek ^a   Nijhof, Jeroen H B ^a   Doran, Nick J ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; JITTER; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DISPERSION MANAGED SOLITONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0034191715     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPN.11.5.000035     Document Type: Article

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