Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 3, Issue 10, 10562(2005)
Picosecond soliton transmission using concatenated gain-distributed nonlinear amplifying fiber loop mirrors
Stable picosecond soliton transmission is demonstrated numerically by use of concatenated gain-distributed nonlinear amplifying fiber loop mirrors (NALMs). We show that, as compared with previous soliton transmission schemes that use conventional NALMs or nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM) and amplifier combinations, the present scheme permits significant increase of loop-mirror (amplifier) spacing. The broad switching window of the present device and the high quality pulses switched from it provide a reasonable stability range for soliton transmission. Soliton-soliton interactions can be reduced efficiently by using lowly dispersive fibers.
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Wenhua Cao, Songhao Liu, "Picosecond soliton transmission using concatenated gain-distributed nonlinear amplifying fiber loop mirrors," Chin. Opt. Lett. 3, 10562 (2005)