Álvaro Manuel Fonseca de Carvalho ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION OF SOLITON COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS Álvaro Manuel Fonseca de Carvalho Performance Assessment of Dispersion Managed Soliton Communication Systems Normalized Optimal Decision Level (ropt) Analytical Approach for BER Computation: Quantifies the effects of energy enhancement in dispersion managed systems Provides a first insight into the system performance Formulation of the Parametric Optimization Problem Analysis and Simulation of Strongly Perturbed Soliton Systems Optimization Procedure: Minimization of dispersive radiation and soliton interaction Optimum system parameters obtained from extensive numerical simulations BER estimates for a 11 Mm 10 Gb/s system with and without dispersion management Soliton Chirp evolution for minimum emission of dispersive radiation