Electrostriction-induced acoustic effect in ultralong-distance soliton transmission systems.

The electrostriction-induced acoustic effect introduces a time-dependent index evolution for the following optical pulses and results in an additional temporal shift of solitons. The acoustic effect is incorporated into the nonlinear Schrödinger equation as a perturbative term. We investigate the evolution of timing jitter, taking into account both the Gordon-Haus and the acoustic effect contributions for a 10-Gbit/s sliding-frequency in-line-filter soliton system.

Phase-sensitive optical low-coherence reflectometry technique applied to the characterization of photonic crystal fiber properties.

Localized measurements of group-velocity dispersion and birefringence of photonic crystal fibers are achieved with a phase-sensitive optical low-coherence reflectometry technique. This technique is efficient for fiber samples no longer than 1 m. Theoretical simulations are in good agreement with experimental results.

Exact solutions for linear propagation of chirped pulses using a chirped Gauss Hermite orthogonal basis.

A generalized solution of the linear propagation equation is proposed in terms of chirped Gauss-Hermite orthogonal functions. Some well-known special cases are pointed out, and the usefulness of this approach in analyzing arbitrarily shaped chirped pulses in rapidly converging series is discussed.