Nonlinear optics in a birefringent optical fiber
Abstract
We extend the perturbation theory of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation for the study of perturbed (nonintegrable) forms of the vector equation. We derive a set of linear equations that describe the radiation field shed by the soliton as it propagates down a birefringent optical fiber. The formalism is applied to the case when strong birefringence and higher-order dispersion are present in the fiber and to the study of polarization mode dispersion. Finally we discuss an analytical treatment of the mechanism that generates the soliton shadow.
- Publication:
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Physical Review E
- Pub Date:
- January 2004
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevE.69.016603
- Bibcode:
- 2004PhRvE..69a6603H
- Keywords:
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- 42.65.Tg;
- 42.25.Lc;
- 42.81.Dp;
- 42.81.Gs;
- Optical solitons;
- nonlinear guided waves;
- Birefringence;
- Propagation scattering and losses;
- solitons;
- Birefringence polarization