The internal quantum statistics of damped soliton-like pulses in Kerr media
are studied numerically, considering both narrow- and finite-bandwidth spe
ctral pulse components. It is shown that both the photon-number correlation
and the correlation of the photon-number variance between different pulse
components can be highly nonclassical even for absorbing fibres. Optimum fr
equency windows are determined in order to realize strong nonclassical beha
viour, which offers novel possibilities of using solitons in optical fibres
as a source of nonclassically correlated light beams.