Soliton dynamics in non-uniform fiber tapers: Analytical description through an improved moment method

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1022-1030

  Chen, Zhigang ^a   Taylor, Antoinette J ^a   Efimov, Anatoly ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; DISPERSION (WAVES); FIBERS; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; FUSED SILICA; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SILICA; SOLITONS;

ANALYTICAL DESCRIPTION; AXIAL DISPERSIONS; COUPLED DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DINGER EQUATION; FIBER TAPER; FLUORIDE FIBERS; FUSED-SILICA FIBERS; IMPROVED MOMENT METHOD; NON-LINEARITY; NONUNIFORM; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; RAMAN GAIN; RAMAN GAIN SPECTRUMS; SOLITON DYNAMICS; SOLITON PROPAGATION; SOLITON SELF-FREQUENCY SHIFT; TAPER LENGTH;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

EID: 77955167476     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.001022     Document Type: Article

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