title: Effect of guiding filters on the behavior of dispersion-managed solitons.
abstract: We show that guiding filters fundamentally alter the behavior of dispersion-managed soltions by making the pulse energy nearly independent of path-average dispersion (D?) in the neighborhood of D?=0 . This fact enables one to design maps permitting adequate pulse energy with narrow-bandwidth, temporally broad pulses for the attainment of high spectral efficiency and reduced nonlinear penalties in wavelength-division multiplexing.
authors: L F
authors: LF
authors: Mollenauer
authors: P V
authors: PV
authors: Mamyshev
authors: J P
authors: JP
authors: Gordon