Cherenkov radiation emitted by solitons in optical fibers

Nail Akhmediev and Magnus Karlsson
Phys. Rev. A 51, 2602 – Published 1 March 1995
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Abstract

We demonstrate a simple, fully analytic method of calculating the amount of radiation emitted by optical solitons perturbed by higher-order dispersion effects in fibers and find good agreement with numerical results. It is pointed out that this radiation mechanism is analogous to the well-known Cherenkov radiation processes in nonlinear optics.

  • Received 15 April 1994

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.51.2602

©1995 American Physical Society

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Nail Akhmediev and Magnus Karlsson

  • Optical Sciences Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia

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Vol. 51, Iss. 3 — March 1995

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