This book describes the generation and transmission of multi-bound solitons with the potential to form the basis of the temporal coding of optical data packets for next-generation nonlinear optical systems. The text not only delineates the strong background physics of such systems but also discusses the phase evolution of the optical carriers under the soliton envelopes for the generation of multi-bound solitons, explains the generation of multi-bound solitons through optical fibers, presents experimental techniques for the effective generation of bound solitons, and much more.

Le Nguyen Binh holds a B.Eng (Hons) and Ph.D from the University of Western Australia. He is currently a technical director at Huawei's European Research Centre in Munich, Germany, and has been awarded three Huawei Technologies Gold Medals for his work on advanced optical communication technologies. He was previously the chair of Commission D (Electronics and Photonics) of the National Committee for Radio Sciences of the Australian Academy of Sciences, and a professorial fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, and various Australian universities. Widely published, Dr. Binh is the series editor of Photonics and Optics for CRC Press.

Introduction. Generations of Solitons in Optical Fiber Ring Resonators. Multi-Bound Solitons: Fundamentals and Generations. Multi-Bound Solitons under Carrier Phase Modulation. Bound-Soliton Bispectra and Nonlinear Photonic Signal Processing. Solitons and Multi-Bound Solitons in Passive Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers. Multirate Multiplication Soliton Fiber Ring and Nonlinear Loop Lasers. Optical Multisoliton Transmission. Concluding Remarks. Appendices.