Abstract

Use of optical soliton pulses for extremely high-data-rate optical communication systems was first suggested by Hasegawa and Tapped in 1973.¹ However, it was realized later that solitons increase their widths and thus lose soliton nature due to inherent optical loss as they propagate through the single-mode fiber.² One obvious method to circumvent this problem is to periodically amplify solitons so that loss is compensate throughout propagation.³ We propose and numerically verify another method to compensate for optical loss.

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