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Cherenkov radiation emitted by solitons in optical fibers

Physical Review A · 1995 · Vol. 51(3) · pp. 2602–2607
Nail AkhmedievMagnus Karlsson

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.

Nonlinear Waves and SolitonsAdvanced Fiber Laser TechnologiesNonlinear Photonic SystemsCherenkov radiationPhysicsRadiationDispersion (optics)OpticsNonlinear opticsOptical fiberNonlinear systemComputational physicsQuantum electrodynamics
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