A scheme for pre-shaping of dispersion-managed solitons

Abstract: We demonstrate efficacy of shaping Gaussian pulses into dispersion-managed (DM) solitons by dint of a device which includes two fibers with the same group-velocity-dispersion (GVD) coefficients as in the DM system, a frequency-domain filter, and an amplifier. The shaping of a given input pulse is optimized by adjusting values of four free parameters of the cell, viz., lengths of the two fibers, filtering coefficient, and amplification gain, with the objective to achieve the best fit of the transformed pulse to the (numerically found) DM soliton, including systems with the third-order GVD, and with three-step DM maps. Launching reshaped pulses into the DM system, we demonstrate, in direct simulations, their complete stability over indefinitely long propagation distances. We examine sensitivity of the reshaping to deviations of the control parameters from their optimum values, a noteworthy results being very weak dependence on variations of the filtering strength. The dependence of the four control parameters on the width and chirp of the Gaussian input signal is also studied in detail. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]