WHY VARIATIONAL APPROXIMATION REDUCES SOLITON SWITCHING IN NONLINEAR COUPLERS TO THE CW CASE

Authors
SKINNER IM
Citation
Im. Skinner, WHY VARIATIONAL APPROXIMATION REDUCES SOLITON SWITCHING IN NONLINEAR COUPLERS TO THE CW CASE, Optical and quantum electronics, 27(1), 1995, pp. 49-57
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Optics,"Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
Optical and quantum electronics → ACNP
ISSN journal
03068919
Volume
27
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
49 - 57
Database
ISI
SICI code
0306-8919(1995)27:1<49:WVARSS>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
Use of the variational approximation to describe soliton propagation i n a nonlinear optical coupler is shown formally to reduce the problem to one with the same form as CW operation of a coupler, albeit with a different form of nonlinearity.