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We consider the phenomenon of an optical soliton controlled (e.g. amplified) by a much weaker second pulse which is efficiently scattered at the soliton. An important problem in this context is to quantify the small range of parameters at which the interaction takes place. This has been achieved by using adiabatic ODEs for the soliton characteristics, which is much faster than an empirical scan of the full propagation equations for all parameters in question.
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Uwe Bandelow and Shalva Amiranashvili acknowledge support of Einstein Foundation Berlin and Research Center Matheon under Project D-OT2.
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This article is part of the Topical Collection on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices 2016.
Guest edited by Yuh-Renn Wu, Weida Hu, Slawomir Sujecki, Silvano Donati, Matthias Auf der Maur and Mohamed Swillam.
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Pickartz, S., Bandelow, U. & Amiranashvili, S. Efficient all-optical control of solitons. Opt Quant Electron 48, 503 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-016-0760-2
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