Analysis of soliton stability and interactions in a system with nonlinear gain

Mario F. S. Ferreira

doi:10.1117/12.275581

6 June 1997 Analysis of soliton stability and interactions in a system with nonlinear gain

Mario F. S. Ferreira

Proceedings Volume 2994, Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices V; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.275581
Event: Photonics West '97, 1997, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

The soliton propagation and interaction characteristics in the presence of spectral filtering, linear and nonlinear gain are investigated. We show that, as the linear gain vanishes, the steady-state soliton amplitude and inverse duration diverge. The nonlinear gain is shown to have a significant impact on the soliton interaction when the adjacent solitons have different phases or amplitudes. In these cases, a (pi) phase difference between adjacent pulses is induced when the nonlinear gain only partially replaces the linear gain. As the linear gain vanishes, the phase difference varies continuously and the solitons oscillate only slightly around their initial time separation.

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Mario F. S. Ferreira "Analysis of soliton stability and interactions in a system with nonlinear gain", Proc. SPIE 2994, Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices V, (6 June 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.275581

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