Switching dynamics of helical solitons in a periodically twisted birefringent fiber filter
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 17 (1) , 25-27
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.17.000025
Abstract
We discuss the conditions for the formation, switching, and spatial instability of solitary waves with helical evolution of the polarization in optical fibers with periodic birefringence.Keywords
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