Abstract

Soliton propagation in a cascaded dispersion-managed optical amplifier system with zero net dispersion is examined. We present a qualitative physical explanation for the recently discovered fact that a soliton with finite energy can propagate down a fiber line with zero or normal average dispersion. We describe a specific practical system for the main properties of such a soliton, namely, the dependence of the soliton power on the pulse width at chirp-free points and the soliton average energy and width at chirp-free points as functions of the dispersion-allocation (strength of the map) parameter.

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Self-similar core and oscillatory tails of a path-averaged chirped dispersion-managed optical pulse

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Power dependence of dispersion-managed solitons for anomalous, zero, and normal path-average dispersion

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