Introduction / 1: |
Wave Motion / 2: |
What is Wave Motion? / 2.1: |
Dispersive and Nonlinear Effects of a Wave / 2.2: |
Solitary Waves and the Korteweg de Vries Equation / 2.3: |
Solution of the Korteweg de Vries Equation / 2.4: |
Lightwave in Fibers / 3: |
Polarization Effects / 3.1: |
Plane Electromagnetic Waves in Dielectric Materials / 3.2: |
Kerr Effect and Kerr Coefficient / 3.3: |
Dielectric Waveguides / 3.4: |
Information Transfer in OpticalFibers and Evolution of the Lightwave Packet / 4: |
How Information is Coded in a Lightwave / 4.1: |
How Information is Transferred in Optical Fibers / 4.2: |
Master Equation for Information Transfer in Optical Fibers: The Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation / 4.3: |
Evolution of the Wave Packet Due to the Group Velocity Dispersion / 4.4: |
Evolution of the Wave Packet Due to the Nonlinearity / 4.5: |
Technical Data of Dispersion and Nonlinearity in a Real Optical Fiber / 4.6: |
Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation and a Solitary Wave Solution / 4.7: |
Modulational Instability / 4.8: |
Induced Modulational Instability / 4.9: |
Modulational Instability Described by the Wave Kinetic Equation / 4.10: |
OpticalSolitons in Fibers / 5: |
Soliton Solutions and the Results of Inverse Scattering / 5.1: |
Soliton Periods / 5.2: |
Conservation Quantities of the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation / 5.3: |
Dark Solitons / 5.4: |
Soliton Perturbation Theory / 5.5: |
Effect of Fiber Loss / 5.6: |
Effect of the Waveguide Property of a Fiber / 5.7: |
Condition of Generation of a Soliton in Optical Fibers / 5.8: |
First Experiments on Generation of Optical Solitons / 5.9: |
All-Optical Soliton Transmission Systems / 6: |
Raman Amplification and Reshaping of Optical Solitons-First Concept of All-Optical Transmission Systems / 6.1: |
First Experiments of Soliton Reshaping and of Long Distance Transmission by Raman Amplifications / 6.2: |
First Experiment of Soliton Transmission by Means of an Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier / 6.3: |
Concept of the Guiding Center Soliton / 6.4: |
The Gordon-Haus Effect and Soliton Timing Jitter / 6.5: |
Interaction Between Two Adjacent Solitons / 6.6: |
Interaction Between Two Solitons in Different Wavelength Channels / 6.7: |
Controlof OpticalSolitons / 7: |
Frequency-Domain Control / 7.1: |
Time-Domain Control / 7.2: |
Control by Means of Nonlinear Gain / 7.3: |
Numerical Examples of Soliton Transmission Control / 7.4: |
Influence of Higher-Order Terms / 8: |
Self-Frequency Shift of a Soliton Produced by Induced Raman Scattering / 8.1: |
Fission of Solitons Produced by Self-Induced Raman Scattering / 8.2: |
Effects of Other Higher-Order Dispersion / 8.3: |
Fiber Birefringence and Coupled Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations / 9: |
Solitons in Fibers with Constant Birefringence / 9.2: |
Polarization-Mode Dispersion / 9.3: |
Solitons in Fibers with Randomly Varying Birefringence / 9.4: |
Dispersion-Managed Solitons (DMS) / 10: |
Problems in Conventional Soliton Transmission / 10.1: |
Dispersion Management with Dispersion-Decreasing Fibers / 10.2: |
Dispersion Management with Dispersion Compensation / 10.3: |
Quasi Solitons / 10.4: |
Application of Dispersion Managed Solitons for Single-Channel Ultra-High Speed Transmissions / 11: |
Enhancement of Pulse Energy / 11.1: |
Reduction of Gordon-Haus Timing Jitter / 11.2: |
Interaction Between Adjacent Pulses / 11.3: |
Dense Dispersion Management / 11.4: |
Nonstationary RZ Pulse Propagation / 11.5: |
Some Recent Experiments / 11.6: |
Application of Dispersion Managed Solitons for WDM Transmission / 12: |
Frequency Shift Induced by Collisions Between DM Solitons in Different Channels / 12.1: |
Temporal Shift Induced by Collisions Between DM Solitons in Different Channels / 12.2: |
Doubly Periodic Dispersion Management / 12.3: |
Some Recent WDM Experiments Using DM Solitons / 12.4: |
Other Applications of Optical Solitons / 13: |
Soliton Laser / 13.1: |
Pulse Compression / 13.2: |
All-Optical Switching / 13.3: |
Solitons in Fibers with Gratings / 13.4: |
Solitons in Microstructure Optical Fibers / 13.5: |
References |
Index |
Introduction / 1: |
Wave Motion / 2: |
What is Wave Motion? / 2.1: |