Print Email Facebook Twitter Shortening Solitons for Fiber-Optic Transmission Title Shortening Solitons for Fiber-Optic Transmission Author Wahls, S. (TU Delft Team Sander Wahls) Date 2021 Abstract Solitons are stable localized pulses that do not disperse in optical fiber. When several solitons interact, they form a multi-soliton. Various fiber-optic communication systems based on multi-solitons have been investigated, but their spectral efficiencies are not competitive. One issue with using multi-solitons for communications is that their effective duration can vary widely with the number of interacting solitons. In this paper, we therefore introduce the concept of soliton shortening. In soliton shortening, a dispersive part is added to the nonlinear spectrum of a multi-soliton that reduces the pulse to a fixed finite duration, without changing the characteristics of the solitonic part. As a proof of concept, soliton shortening is shown to increase the spectral efficiency of a 2-soliton on-off keying system by 40%. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f4d7e87e-f770-4064-9d0f-25926665b1fb DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWCS49558.2021.9562241 Publisher IEEE ISBN 987-1-7281-7432-7 Source Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS 2021) Event ISWCS 2021: 17th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (Virtual), 2021-09-06 → 2021-09-09, Berlin, Germany Bibliographical note Accepted Author Manuscript Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2021 S. Wahls Files PDF iswcs_2021_certified.pdf 1.22 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f4d7e87e-f770-4064-9d0f-25926665b1fb/datastream/OBJ/view