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Fiber and integrated optics. fiber waveguide devices

Vector solitons in fiber waveguides with a random birefringence

Yu. S. Kivshar, V. V. Konotop


Abstract: A study is made of the propagation of soliton pulses in single-mode fiber waveguides with a birefringence that gives rise to a nonlinear interaction between the polarizations and to a difference between their group velocities. It is shown that a vector soliton decays if a parameter representing the birefringence intensity exceeds a certain critical value. The case when the birefringence can be described by a random function is of special interest. It is demonstrated that fluctuations of the birefringence then split the vector solitons into separate polarizations and the characteristic distance governing such splitting is calculated analytically.

UDC: 681.7.068:535.3

PACS: 42.81.Qb, 42.81.Dp, 42.65.Tg, 42.81.Gs

Received: 02.03.1990

 English version: Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1990, 20:12, 1495–1498

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