Optical soliton pulses offer great promise as a means for transmitting high data rate information in optical fibers over trans-oceanic distances. This thesis addresses two aspects of optical soliton communication. First, soliton propagation in the presence of a small-signal background continuum is discussed. It is essential to examine soliton-continuum interaction as it may lead to timing jitte...

We present the experimental observation of a spatial vector soliton formed by counterpropagation of coherent optical fields. This is to our knowledge the first observation of a vector soliton in which the induced waveguide (potential) is periodic in the propagation direction. This vector soliton induces a waveguide and a thick grating within the waveguide, which can be used as a tunable optical...

 In this paper, we investigate the evolution of supercontinuum and femtosecond optical pulses generation through square lattice elliptical-core photonic crystal fiber (PCF) at 1550 nm by using both full-vector multipole method (M.P.M) and novel concrete algorithms: symmetric  split-step Fourier (SSF) and  fourth order Runge Kutta (RK4) which is an accurate method to solve the general  nonlinear...

We study optical solitons in chirped periodic optical lattices whose amplitude or frequency changes in the transverse direction. We discover that soliton propagation in such lattices can be accompanied by the progressive self-bending of the soliton trajectory, and we show that the soliton bending rate and output position can be controlled by varying the lattice depth, as well as the chirp ampli...

We have revisited soliton transmission in the new context of coherent optical detection optimizing and comparing digital backward propagation and in-line optical filtering as a means to suppress soliton timing and phase jitter. We find that in-line optical filtering allows one to improve the reach of the soliton system by up to the factor of 2. Our results show that nonlinear propagation can le...

All-optical soliton logic operations, facilitated by incoherent interactions of multiple spatial solitons with nonlinear interfaces, are proposed and analyzed. A particlelike model, validated by beam propagation simulations, was developed for calculating the soliton trajectories and was employed for the analysis of the soliton-based logic gates. © 2005 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: 190...

Stochastic dynamics o f a soliton in a long optical fiber is analysed within the framework of the nonlinear Schr6dinger equation. It is shown that in the case of periodic perturbations describing, e.g. sound propagation along a fiber, adiabatic dynamics of a soliton may be stochastic, and the condition for this stochastic motion is obtained. In the case of random perturbations we obtain the sol...

An external-cavity diode laser is reported with ultralow noise, high power coupled to a fiber, and fast tunability. These characteristics enable the generation of an optical frequency comb in a silica micro-resonator with a single-soliton state. Neither an optical modulator nor an amplifier was used in the experiment. This demonstration greatly simplifies the soliton generation setup and repres...

Inspired by experiments on Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices, we study the quantum evolution of dark soliton initial conditions in the context of the Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian. An extensive set of quantum measures is utilized in our analysis, including von Neumann and generalized quantum entropies, quantum depletion, and the pair correlation function. We find that quantum effects cau...

In this paper, we construct the Lax pair for a soliton transmission system in nonuniform optical fibers and give N-soliton solution using the Darboux transformation. The explicit one-soliton and two-soliton solutions are presented. Further, we discuss the interaction scenario between two neighboring solitons and the effect of the inhomogeneities of the fiber (z0) on the interaction between two ...