Effect of Chaos and Instability of Brillouin-Active Fiber Based on Optical Communication

  • 염경태 (원광대학교 정보통신공학과) ;
  • 김관규 (원광대학교 전자재료 학과) ;
  • 김지형 (원광대학교 정보통신공학과) ;
  • 김용갑 (원광대학교 전기전자 및 정보공학부)
  • Published : 2008.06.30

Abstract

In this paper the effect of instability and chaos in optical fiber networks based on the Internet is described. Nonlinear optical fiber effect especially Brillouin scattering in networks has emerged as the essential means for the construction of active optical devices used for all-optic in-line switching, channel selection, amplification, oscillation in optical communications and a host of other applications. The inherent optical feedback by the back-scattered Stokes wave in optical networks also leads to instabilities in the form of optical chaos. This paradigm of optical chaos in fiber Internet serves as a test for fundamental study of chaos and its suppression and exploitation in practical application in optical fiber communication. This paper attempts to present a survey and some of our research findings on the nature of Brillouin chaotic effect on Internet based optical communication.

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