%0 Journal Article %T PROPAGACI¨®N DE PULSOS SOLIT¨®NICOS EN REDES ¨®PTICAS WDM %A Cubillos M %A Claudio %A Olivares V %A Ricardo %J Revista Facultad de Ingenier¨ªa - Universidad de Tarapac¨¢ %D 2005 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0718-13372005000300013 %X the performance of a wdm soliton system provided with a cascade of edfas is evaluated by means of computer simulation. four optical carriers are modulated with a 2.5 gb/s rate, 6-bit-pseudo-random sequence. in order to improve the transmission system performance we introduce a dispersion management scheme by using fibers with dispersion of opposite sign per link. the results obtained show the effectiveness of the dispersion management technique employed, reflected in a smaller distortion of the propagated pulses. %K optical solitons %K non linear schr£¿dinger equation %K symmetrized split step fourier method. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-13372005000300013&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en