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Mode-locked fiber ring lasers and long distance soliton propagation in fibers display many similarities, but also differ in significant ways. This lecture will try to elucidate some of these issues. Digital signals transmitted over long distances call for maintenance of the pulses and suppression of noise in the intervals between pulses. This maintenance must be adequate over the total length of the fiber cable; it need not last forever. Solitons propagating along a fiber with a filter distribution have the desirable property that they are, in a sense self-stabilizing. Gain compensates for the loss produced by the filters. If the soliton grows in amplitude, it shrinks in width and its spectrum broadens. The filter loss increases, and the soliton amplitude growth is counteracted. Conversely, a soliton of decreased amplitude has a narrower spectrum and less filter loss. The pulse experiences net gain that brings it back to the steady state.
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Haus, H.A. (1999). Mode-Locked Fiber Ring Lasers and Fiber Ring Memories. In: Zakharov, V.E., Wabnitz, S. (eds) Optical Solitons: Theoretical Challenges and Industrial Perspectives. Centre de Physique des Houches, vol 12. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03807-9_11
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