Abstract



Pavel Lushnikov

Dispersion-managed soliton in optical fiber

Abstract: A dispersion-managed (DM) system, which is a system with periodical variation of dispersion along an optical fiber, is one of the key components of current development of ultrafast high-bit-rate optical communication lines. DM system is governed by nonlinear Schroedinger equation with variable dispersion. Provided nonlinearity is small enough this equation can be averaged over period of dispersion variation resulting in path-averaged integro-differential equation. Here the DM soliton solution is obtained by iterating the path-averaged equation analytically and numerically. An efficient numerical algorithm for obtaining of DM soliton shape is developed. The envelope of soliton oscillating tails is found to decay exponentially in time while the oscillations are described by a quadratic law.

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