Dispersion-managed soliton dynamics
- 1 November 1997
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 22 (21) , 1609-1611
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.22.001609
Abstract
We obtain and solve algebraic eigenvalue equations that predict the dependence of the pulse energy of a dispersion-managed soliton on pulse duration, chirp, and dispersion-map parameters. We demonstrate that a variational ansatz based on a Gaussian pulse shape remains useful even when the actual pulse shape is not Gaussian, and we show that the enhancement factor saturates as the pulse duration decreases.Keywords
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