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Quantum State Engineering of Light with Continuous-wave Optical Parametric Oscillators
Published on: May 30, 2014
Soliton propagation in an erbium-doped fiber with and without a continuous wave background
R Ganapathy1, V C Kuriakose, K Porsezian
1Department of Physics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi 682 022, India. ganapathyr@eth.net
Abstract:
Considering ultrashort pulse propagation in a nonlinear resonant fiber governed by Hirota-Maxwell Bloch equations, the soliton interaction in an erbium-doped fiber system associated with higher-order dispersion, self-steepening, and self-induced transparency effects is studied for the case when the fiber is driven with and without a constant pumping source. Using auto-Bäcklund-transformation, one- and two-soliton solutions are generated. The significance of the results is discussed in detail.
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