Design of dispersion-managed fiber systems for transmitting chirp-free Gaussian pulses

Abstract

We present a general method to analytically design a dispersion-managed (DM) fiber system for any desired fiber (dispersion, nonlinearity and losses) and pulse (width and energy) parameters. This analytical design allows one to transmit chirp-free Gaussian pulses (for very long distances) in almost all kinds of DM fiber systems that have appeared so far in the literature, including systems with dispersion map length greater, equal or shorter with respect to the amplification period.

Keywords:

• dispersion-managed solitons
• nonlinear Schrödinger equation
• analytical design and Gaussian ansatz

Acknowledgements

K. Nakkeeran wishes to thank The Nuffield Foundation for their financial support through the Newly Appointed Lecturer Award. The CEFIPRA is gratefully acknowledged for its financial support through the project No.: 3504-4. A.B. Moubissi acknowledges the financial support from AUF (Agence Universitaire pour la Francophonie).