Dispersion management with filtering

• We present results of analytical and numerical consideration of the pulses in a model of a DM fiber link including the fixed-frequency filters and compensating gain, both taken in the distributed approximation. Combining the variational approximation and perturbative treatment of the filtering and gain terms, we predict stationary propagation regimes. The most important new features are the absence of the minimum DM strength necessary for the existence of the pulses in the case when the average dispersion is nil or normal, and the existence of a minimum necessary normalized power in this case. These features are well corroborated by direct simulations.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Atom- och molekylfysik och optik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Approximation theory

Laser pulses

Nonlinear optics

Optical fibers

Optical filters

Optical links

Perturbation techniques

Variational techniques

Dispersion management

Fixed frequency filters

Electromagnetic dispersion

Publication and Content Type

vet (subject category)

rap (subject category)