New Trends in Optical Soliton Transmission Systems

1: Technical Session.- Propagation and Interaction of Optical Solitons in Fibers with Random Parameters.- Soliton Jitter and Collisions in Birefringent Fibres.- Soliton Stability in PMD Perturbed Transmission Systems.- Role of the Dispersive Wave in Soliton Dynamics and Interactions.- Generation of High-repetition-rate Dark Soliton Trains and Frequency Conversion in Optical Fibers.- Studies on Signal Propagation in Optical Fibers with Randomly Varying Birefringence.- Ultra-long Distance Soliton Transmission Line Design by Two-dimensional Pulse Width Evaluation Method.- Practical Design of Dispersion Managed Soliton System.- Photon-number Noise of Spectrally Filtered Optical Solitons.- Variational Approach to Transmission in DM Long Optical Links.- Nonlinear Chirped RZ and NRZ Pulses in Optical Transmission Lines.- Circulating Loop Experiments on Solitons with Periodic Dispersion Management.- 20Gbit/s PDM Soliton Transmission Experiment in Dispersion Compensated Standard Fiber Systems.- Dynamics of Dispersion-managed Solitons in Optical Communications.- Superb Characteristics of Dispersion-allocated Soliton Transmission in TDM and WDM Systems.- Theory of Guiding-center Breathing Soliton Propagation in Optical Communication Systems with Strong Dispersion Management.- Analysis of Gordon-Haus Jitter in Dispersion Compensated Optical Fibers.- Four-wave Mixing in Fiber Links with Dispersion Management.- Statistical Properties of Signals Travelling in Noisy Nonlinearly Dispersive Optical Channels.- Dispersion Management Issues in Long Amplifier-spacing Frequency-guiding Multiwavelength Soliton Systems.- Remarkable Features of DM Solitons: Implications for High Speed and WDM Systems.- Transmission Systems Based on Dispersion-managed Solitons: Theory and Experiment.- Transmission and Collision of Quasi-solitons in Dispersion Managed Optical Fibers.- Long-haul Soliton WDM Transmission with Periodic Dispersion Compensation and Dispersion Slope Compensation.- Ultrafast Networks Using High-speed RZ Optical Pulses for Transmission, Routing and Processing.- 40 Gbit/s Transmission Using Optical Time-division Multiplexing and Demultiplexing.- Broadband and Gain-flattened Optical Fiber Amplifiers.- Passively Mode-locked Semiconductor Lasers Stabilized by Subharmonic Electrical Injection and Their Application to Millimeter Wave Photonics.- 2: Consortium Session.- Ultrafast Soliton Multiple-access Networks.- STAR Project.- ESTHER Project: Practical Implementation of Solitons.- Soliton Transmisson in the European Network.- European Union ACTS Project MIDAS: Objectives and Progress to Date.- List of Contributors.