Front cover -- Solitons in Optical Fibers -- Copyright Page -- About the Authors -- Contents -- Preface -- The Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation and Ordinary Solitons -- Introduction -- Fiber Dispersion and Nonlinearity -- The NLS Equation: Derivation and Fundamental Consequences -- The Soliton -- Dispersion-managed Solitons -- Introduction -- Pulse Behavior in Maps Having Gain and Loss -- Map Scaling to Higher Bit Rates -- Dispersion-managed Solitons: Summary -- Spontaneous Emission and Its Effects -- Some Basic Concepts -- Optical Amplifiers -- ASE Growth in a Chain of Ampli.ers and Fiber Spans -- ASE-induced Errors -- Frequency-guiding Filters -- Soliton Interactions -- Soliton-soliton Collisions in WDM -- Applications of the Inverse Scattering Transform -- Wavelength Division Multiplexing with Ordinary Solitons -- Introduction -- Effects of Periodic Loss and Variable Dispersion -- Analytical Theory of Collisions in Perturbed Spans -- Dispersion-tapered Fiber Spans -- Pseudo Phase Matching of Four-wave Mixing in WDM -- Control of Collision-induced Timing Displacements -- Effects of Polarization -- Gain Equalization with Guiding Filters -- Experimental Con.rmation -- Wavelength Division Multiplexing with Dispersion- managed Solitons -- Soliton-soliton Collisions -- Experimental Tests -- Polarization and Its Effects -- Apologia -- Polarization States and the Stokes-Poincaré Picture -- Linear Birefringence of Transmission Fibers -- Soliton Propagation -- Polarization Scattering by Soliton-soliton Collisions -- Hardware and Measurement Techniques -- Soliton Sources -- The Temporal Lens -- Clock Recovery -- Dispersion Measurement -- Accurate Measurement of Pulse Widths Using a Detector with Finite Response Time -- Flat Raman Gain for Dense WDM -- A Sample Maple Program for the ODE Method -- A.1. Introduction -- A.2. The Maple Program.

A Brief History of Solitons -- B.1. Apologia -- B.2. The Beginning: John Scott Russell and His Discovery -- B.3. Solitons in Optical Fibers -- B.4. The Soliton Legacy -- References -- Index.