Many-soliton bound states in dispersion-managed optical fiber: Possibility of fiber-optic transmission of three bits per clock period

TL;DR

This paper investigates the stability and dynamics of multi-soliton molecules in dispersion-managed optical fibers, showing potential for encoding three bits per clock period through stable soliton arrangements.

Contribution

It provides analytical and numerical analysis of five- and seven-soliton molecules, demonstrating their stability and potential for high-capacity fiber-optic data transmission.

Findings

Good agreement between analytical and numerical pulse shapes

Soliton molecules with up to seven solitons are potentially stable

Possibility of encoding three bits per clock period

Abstract

We study the stability and the dynamics of many-soliton molecules in dispersion-managed (DM) optical fibers with focus on five-and seven-soliton molecules by analytical and numerical means. In particular we calculate the binding force, pulse durations and equilibrium separations using a variational approach. Predicted pulse shapes are in good agreement with those found by numerical simulations of the underlying nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. Within limitations soliton molecules with up to seven solitons possibly allow to encode three bits of data per clock period.