Generation of multigigahertz bright and dark soliton pulse trains

doi:10.1016/S0030-4018(96)00406-3

Optics Communications

Volume 133, Issues 1–6, 1 January 1997, Pages 541-548

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Abstract

A comprehensive study for generating trains of ultra-high speed bright and dark soliton pulses at 1553 nm using comblike dispersion profile fiber structures is presented. The comblike structure employed for generating bright solitons uses the lowest average power for the input signal ever reported. The generated bright soliton pulses have a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 2.2 ps at a repetition rate of 49.3 GHz, while the generated dark soliton pulses have a FWHM of 3.8 ps at 47.6 GHz. The experimental results agree well with performed numerical simulations.

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