Overview

Solitons are a fascinating topic for study and a major source of interest for potential application in optical communication. Possibly the first observation of a soliton occurred in 1838 and was made by a clerical gentleman riding a horse along a canal towpath. When a barge under tow came to a stop alongside him the bow wave did not stop, but continued to travel on its own for several miles with no change in shape. At the time this unusual phenomenon was not understood and remained unexplained. Interest was revived with the development of optical fibres and the realisation that at the high intensities possible in their very small cores the onset of non-linear effects could modify the propagation characteristics in a significant way. In a seminal paper in 1973 Hasegawa and Tappert solved a non-linear Schrodinger equation for fibre propagation and found solutions for solitary waves, i.e. solitons. Since then advances have been very rapid resulting in a much better understanding of a wide variety of soliton effects, and, crucially, the realisation that soliton propagation can be used to potentially great advantage in practical long-distance systems. There is, as a result, a wealth of theoretical and experimental research in progress all over the world. At NTT (Japan) a pule-code-modulated soliton train has been transmitted at 10Gbit/s over one million kilometres with zero error! Perhaps all long-distance, large bandwidth communication problems have been solved for ever. This book gives a clear account of the theory and mathematics of solitons travelling in optical fibres. It is written by the authority on the subject.

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Author:   Akira Hasegawa (Professor, Department of Communication Engineering, Professor, Department of Communication Engineering, Osaka University, Japan) ,  Yuji Kodama (Professor, Department of Mathematics, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University, USA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Volume:   7
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.658kg
ISBN:  

9780198565079

ISBN 10:   0198565070
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   27 April 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface ; Introduction ; 1. Electric properties of the dielectric fiber ; 2. Derivation of wave packet equation and introduction to soliton transmission systems ; 3. Inverse scattering transform and N-Soliton solutions ; 4. Perturbation methods ; 5. Effects on higher order terms ; 6. Reshaping of solitons and concept of guiding center (Average) solitons ; 7. Soliton transmission control ; 8. Interaction among solitons in same channel ; 9. Interaction among solitons in different channels ; 10. Femto second solitons ; 11. Soliton transmission experiments ; 12. Other applications of optical solitons ; 13. Spatial solitons, stability and chaos ; 14. Modulational instability ; 15. Dark solitons ; General references

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'This book gives a clear account of the theory and mathematics of solitons travelling in optical fibres. ' INSPEC Science Abstracts

`This book gives a clear account of the theory and mathematics of solitons travelling in optical fibres. ' INSPEC Science Abstracts

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