Helical Versus Fundamental Solitons in Optical Fibers

DOI10.1238/PHYSICA.REGULAR.063A00386zbMATH Open1112.78327arXivnlin/0012006OpenAlexW2063739062MaRDI QIDQ4656256FDOQ4656256

B. A. Malomed, P. L. Chu, G. D. Peng

Publication date: 11 March 2005

Published in: Physica Scripta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider solitons in a nonlinear optical fiber with a single polarization in a region of parameters where it carries exactly two distinct modes, the fundamental one and the first-order helical mode. From the viewpoint of applications to dense-WDM communication systems, this opens way to double the number of channels carried by the fiber. Aside from that, experimental observation of helical (spinning) solitons and collisions between them and with fundamental solitons are issues of fundamental interest. We introduce a system of coupled nonlinear Schroedinger equations for fundamental and helical modes, which have nonstandard values of the cross-phase-modulation coupling constants, and investigate, analytically and numerically, results of "complete" and "incomplete" collisions between solitons carried by the two modes. We conclude that the collision-induced crosstalk is partly attenuated in comparison with the usual WDM system, which sometimes may be crucially important, preventing merger of the colliding solitons into a breather. The interaction between the two modes is found to be additionally strongly suppressed in comparison with that in the WDM system in the case when a dispersion-shifted or dispersion-compensated fiber is used.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0012006

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Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60)

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