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In this thesis the creation of nonlinear interference noise (NLIN) in the context of impairment aware flexible optical networks is investigated to estimate transmission quality. In particular, the nonlinear interference of neighboring…
We study the properties of nonlinear interference noise (NLIN) in fiber-optic communications systems with large accumulated dispersion. Our focus is on settling the discrepancy between the results of the Gaussian noise (GN) model (according…
We study $n$-pulse interaction in fast collisions of $N$ solitons of the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation in the presence of generic weak nonlinear loss. We develop a reduced model that yields the contribution of $n$-pulse…
In optical communications, four-dimensional (4D) modulation formats encode information onto the quadrature components of two arbitrary orthogonal states of polarisation of the optical field. These formats have recently regained attention…
The correlated behavior of electrons determines the structure and optical properties of molecules, semiconductor and other systems. Valuable information on these correlations is provided by measuring the response to femtosecond laser…
We study the effects of the generic weak nonlinear loss on fast two-pulse interactions in linear waveguides. The colliding pulses are described by a system of coupled Schr\"odinger equations with a purely nonlinear coupling in the presence…
The intrachannel interaction of pulses in weakly nonlinear coherent optical fiber lines is theoretically investigated. It is shown that the main contribution to the perturbation of the optical field comes from resonant interactions of…
A general theory of nonlinear signal-noise interactions for wavelength division multiplexed fiber-optic coherent transmission systems is presented. This theory is based on the regular perturbation treatment of the nonlinear Schrodinger…
Coherent dual-polarization (DP) optical transmission systems encode information on the four available degrees of freedom of an optical field: the two polarization states, each with two quadrature components. Such systems naturally operate…
We demonstrate mitigation of inter-channel nonlinear interference noise (NLIN) in WDM systems for several amplification schemes. Using a practical decision directed recursive least-squares algorithm, we take advantage of the temporal…
Through a series of extensive system simulations we show that all of the previously not understood discrepancies between the Gaussian noise (GN) model and simulations can be attributed to the omission of an important, recently reported,…
An ideal contrast-enhanced ultrasound image should display microbubble-induced nonlinearities while avoiding wave propagation nonlinearities. One of the most successful ultrasound pulse sequences to disentangle these nonlinear effects…
We study the stability and interactions of chirped solitary pulses in a system of nonlinearly coupled cubic Ginzburg-Landau (CGL) equations with a group-velocity mismatch between them, where each CGL equation is stabilized by linearly…
We demonstrate that pulses of linear physical systems, weakly perturbed by nonlinear dissipation, exhibit soliton-like behavior in fast collisions. The behavior is demonstrated for linear waveguides with weak cubic loss and for systems…
After reviewing models and mitigation strategies for interchannel nonlinear interference (NLI), we focus on the frequency-resolved logarithmic perturbation model to study the coherence properties of NLI. Based on this study, we devise an…
We investigate two types of nonlinear interaction between collinear femtosecond laser pulses with power slightly above the critical for self-focusing $P_{cr}$. In the first case we study energy exchange between filaments. The model…
Nonlinear effects in pulse propagation through a medium consisting of four-level double-$\Lambda$-type systems are studied theoretically. We apply three continous-wave driving fields and a pulsed probe field such that they form a closed…
We consider dynamics of spatial beams in a dual-channel waveguide with competing cubic and quintic (CQ) nonlinearities. Gradually increasing the power in the input channel, we identify four different regimes of the pulses coupling into the…
We demonstrate that the amplitude shifts in fast two-pulse collisions in perturbed linear physical systems with weak nonlinear dissipation exhibit universal soliton-like behavior. The behavior is demonstrated for linear optical waveguides…
We present an open-source multimode nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation-based simulation to investigate spatiotemporal nonlinear pulse propagation in thin-film silicon nitride (SiN) waveguides. Using this framework, we analyze femtosecond…