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Soliton content of arbitrarily shaped light pulses in fibers analysed using a soliton-radiation beat pattern

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Arbitrarily shaped light pulses propagating down a fiber may contain one or several solitons and a radiative background. A novel computer-assisted method is introduced to identify the composition. This technique does not suffer from restrictions of applicability to integrable systems. As an example we identify the soliton content in a chirped Gaussian pulse.

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Böhm, M., Mitschke, F. Soliton content of arbitrarily shaped light pulses in fibers analysed using a soliton-radiation beat pattern. Appl. Phys. B 86, 407–411 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-006-2513-6

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