Abstract

The study of nonlinear optical fibers has attracted much attention as a result of the interesting range of phenomena experienced and their possible application for fiber-based devices for all-optical signal processing. Although much research has been done in the past decade on nonlinear effects, such as soliton propagation, in optical fibers most of the studies have ignored nonlinear transverse effects. Evidence of analytical temporal solitons solutions that deviate from the linear transverse field profile means that transverse effects are important in the study of nonlinear optical fibers.

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