Abstract
Optical soliton pulses in fibers maintain their envelope undistorted upon propagation as a result of the balance between the effects of fiber nonlinearity and group velocity dispersion.1 This mechanism is well described by the conservative non-linear Schrodinger equation. In fiber-based transmission systems and lasers, periodic linear loss and gain may be adjusted to cancel each other and do not significantly influence the stability of solitons.2 On the other hand, in many physical systems solitary waves may result from a balance between linear and non-linear gain and loss. The paradigm equation that often applies to describe such dissipative systems is the Ginzburg-Landau equation.
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