The history of the proposal that solitons be used for optical fiber communications and of the
technical developments toward making soliton transmission practical is reviewed. The …

Broader bandwidths, denser channel spacing, and higher signal intensities all makes
nonlinear effects more critical to the performance of telecommunications systems. This …

The trend toward higher bit rates in lightwave communications has increased interest in
dispersion-shifted fiber to minimize dispersion penalties. At the same time optical amplifiers …

Advances in 1.5-pum amplifier technology have reshaped the lightwave communications
landscape. Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers have fundamen-tally altered two aspects of …

A new phase-matching factor is derived for four-wave mixing (FWM) that includes the effects
of self-phase and cross-phase modulation in optical fibers. Theoretical results predict that …

Conducting quantum key distribution (QKD) through existing optical fibers together with
conventional communication signals is a viable way to expand its practical application, but …

Four-wave mixing (FWM) is the most serious fiber nonlinearity associated with low-input
optical power levels in long-haul multichannel optical systems employing dispersion-shifted …

The metaheuristic approaches inspired by the nature are becoming powerful optimizing
algorithms for solving NP-complete problems. This paper presents five nature-inspired …

In this paper, a new application of the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm has been
carried out in the field of the optical fiber (OF) communication system. In this theoretical work …

Nowadays, the multi-objective optimizing algorithms which are inspired by nature are widely
used in solving the many objectives of NP-complete engineering and industrial design …