Dispersion Managed Soliton Systems

Roy Wang


Introduction:   Solitons are solitary wave solutions of non-linear
			evolution equations which preserve their
			shape=20 through non-linear interaction.
			Although this sounds highly mathematical,
			notice that this resembles particle like
			behaviour. I will concentrate on interactions
			of solitons with a noise        field, or with
			each                             =
other in optical fibres. One example of this is noise =09
			induced amplitude chirp jitter and limits this
			may impose on transmission.
Outline

	I will briefly review the mathematics essential to any
	derivations or = equations I will examine. ( which will
definitely not include the = associated Lie Algebra structures!) For
example that the simplest = non-trivial solution to the KdV equation is
of the form of a hyperbolic = secant modulo a constant.  =09
	I will then describe the basic techniques in the formation of
	solitons = which I will be discussing, as well as properties
such as minimum power = requirements, etc...

	I will then discuss the idea of dispersion managed optical
	fibres and = controlling the noise field to study chirp jitter,
and an analytic = theory describing a fundamental transmission limit,
as well as = techniques for measurements.

	Then ( especially if the previous part had too much overlap
	with the = other presentation) I will move on to discuss the
characterization of = solitons attracting and repelling each other in
fibre systems.


	Finally a discussion on chirped solitons with strong
	confinement. This = is interesting because this implies that
formation of chirped optical = solitons with fast-decaying tails, which
is related to information = carrying capacity. One article quoted up to
100 GBits/s !