Dissipative damping of dark solitons in optical fibers
- 15 December 1991
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 16 (24), 1936-1937
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.16.001936
Abstract
The adiabatic evolution of the parameters of a dark soliton in the presence of dissipative fiber losses is considered. It is shown that the rate at which a dark soliton decays and spreads is only half the corresponding rate for a bright soliton.Keywords
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