Abstract

Two basic approximations are used to describe propagation of optical solitons through birefringent optical fibers. In the case of strong birefringence, optical pulses polarized along the slow-x and fast-y axes travel with different group velocities and interact with each other only on collision.¹ For weak birefringence, a vector soliton having both x and y components, but propagating with the same group velocity, can be formed.²

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