A NOVEL SLIDING-FREQUENCY GUIDING FILTER FOR SOLITON TRANSMISSION

The Gordon-Haus effect can be substantially reduced by using the slidi ng-frequency guiding filters, However, a long-distance (such as transo ceanic) soliton transmission system may require hundreds of these filt ers operating at slightly different wavelengths from each other, Thus, it would be difficult in practice to produce and install such a large number of these filters all operating at different wavelengths, In th is letter, we demonstrate a novel sliding-frequency guiding filter whi ch automatically offsets its peak wavelength from the wavelength of so liton pulses, Thus, these filters can guide the soliton pulses to slig htly different wavelengths continuously, although they are made to be identical.