Abstract
The evolution of an optical pulse in a strongly dispersion-managed fiber-optic communication system is studied. The pulse is decomposed into a fast phase and a slowly evolving amplitude. The fast phase is calculated exactly, and a nonlocal equation for the evolution of the amplitude is derived. In the limit of weak dispersion management the equation reduces to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. A class of stationary solutions of this equation is obtained; they represent pulses with a Gaussian-like core and exponentially decaying oscillatory tails, and they agree with direct numerical solutions of the full system.
© 1998 Optical Society of America
Full Article | PDF ArticleMore Like This
Mark J. Ablowitz, Boaz Ilan, and Steven T. Cundiff
Opt. Lett. 29(15) 1808-1810 (2004)
Mark J. Ablowitz, Toshihiko Hirooka, and Gino Biondini
Opt. Lett. 26(7) 459-461 (2001)
Mark J. Ablowitz, Gino Biondini, Anjan Biswas, Andrew Docherty, Toshihiko Hirooka, and Sarbarish Chakravarty
Opt. Lett. 27(5) 318-320 (2002)