544 INDEX
slow axis, 36
small-signal gain, 235, 245
SNR,seesignal-to-noise ratio
Soleil–Babinet compensator, 319
soliton period, 406
soliton self-frequency shift, 450
soliton systems
amplifier noise in, 435–437
amplifier spacing for, 420–422
design of, 425–445
dispersion management for, 427–435,
463–467
high-capacity, 445–450
jitter control in, 442–445
modulation format for, 411
timing jitter in, 439–445
transmitters for, 416–418
WDM, 458–467
solitons
amplification of, 427
black, 409
bright, 406
broadening of, 418
collision of, 458–462, 464
dark, 409–411
DDF for, 427–429
dispersion-managed, 309, 429–435
distributed amplification of, 422
effect of fiber loss, 418
fundamental, 406
Gaussian shape for, 429
gray, 409
guiding-center, 421
higher-order, 406
information transmission with, 411
interaction of, 412–414, 447, 456
loss-managed, 418–427
order of, 406
orthogonally polarized, 465
path-averaged, 421
periodic amplification of, 420–422
properties of, 406–408
self-frequency shift of, 424
sources of, 416–418
SONET, 13, 199
source–fiber coupling, 118
spatial hole burning, 110
spatial phase filter, 316
speckle pattern, 202
spectral broadening, 280
spectral efficiency, 332, 341, 392
spectral filtering, 411
spectral hole burning, 110, 252
spectral inversion, 457
midspan, 300
spectral slicing, 338, 361, 362
splice loss,seeloss
split-step Fourier method, 270, 429
spontaneous emission, 78, 79, 89, 107, 114,
230, 261
spontaneous-emission factor, 107, 230, 236,
255
spot size, 36
spot-size converter, 120, 485
spread-spectrum technique, 388
squaring loop, 488
SRS,seeRaman scattering
staircase approximation, 428, 463
star coupler, 188, 337, 338, 350–351, 381
star topology, 188
Stark effect, 417
quantum-confinement, 485
Stark splitting, 252
stimulated Brillouin scattering,seeBrillouin
scattering
stimulated emission, 78, 80, 92, 107
stimulated Raman scattering,seeRaman scat-
tering
Stokes shift, 59, 250
stop band, 293, 294, 299, 311, 314, 346
streak camera, 286
subcarrier multiplexing,seemultiplexing,
SCM systems
supercontinuum, 362, 380
surface acousticwave,343, 486
surface recombination, 83
susceptibility, 29
switch
bubble, 356
directional-coupler, 355
electro-optic, 355
electroholographic, 357
gate, 356
liquid-crystal, 356
Mach–Zender, 355
MEMS, 355
polymer-based, 355
semiconductor, 356
SOA-based, 356
space-division, 354