Solitons in Optical Communications

Solitons are the most recent and perhaps the most remarkable part of the revolution in telecommunications technology. Allied to low loss fibres, semiconductor lasers, and erbium doped fibre amplifiers quite staggering quantities of information can be transferred vast distances at enormous rates and with absolute accuracy. Written by the world's leading researchers in the field, this book provides a clear account of the theory and mathematics of solitons travelling in optical fibres.