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  • Development of a formalism to analytically link soliton self-compression length and soliton number.

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    • Recovered canonical SPM theory results in the short propagation path limit.
    • Demonstrated deceleration of spectral broadening in normal dispersion.
    • Observed explosion-like bandwidth growth in anomalous dispersion for high-soliton-number pulses.
    • Provided an analytical derivation for the soliton self-compression length-soliton number relation.

    Conclusions:

    • The presented analytical description offers a more comprehensive understanding of spectral broadening beyond basic SPM.
    • Dispersion plays a critical role, significantly altering pulse evolution dynamics.
    • The derived analytical relationship provides a non-empirical foundation for soliton self-compression phenomena.