Periodic conjugation of optical solitons

Abstract

Optical phase conjugation of a linear pulse to compensate for the effects of even-order dispersion was first proposed by Yariv et al.1 and recently demonstrated.2 If a pulse is conjugated at the fiber midpoint, subsequent propagation reverses the effects of even-order dispersion. Recently, Forysiak and Doran3 showed that mid-point optical phase conjugation can be used in optical soliton transmission systems to compensate for soliton-soliton interactions and Gordon-Haus jitter.