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Optical soliton shaping in dispersion decreasing fibers

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Optical soliton shaping is the process of changing the waveform of transmitted pulses, and has been applied in optical communication systems to make the pulse fit in their communication channels. In this paper, the concept of optical soliton shaping is introduced in dispersion decreasing fibers with the sine profile. Pulse propagation in dispersion decreasing fibers, which can be described by the variable coefficient higher-order nonlinear Schrödinger equation with the effects of third-order dispersion, self-steepening, and stimulated Raman scattering, is investigated. With the symbolic computation and Hirota method, analytic soliton solutions for the equation are derived. Through adjusting corresponding parameters for obtained solutions, we present the optical soliton shaping, and the influences of parameters are discussed.

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We express our sincere thanks to the Editors and Referees for their valuable comments. This work has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61205064, by the Visiting Scholar Funds of the Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Technology and Systems under Grant No. 0902011812401_5, Chongqing University, and by the Fund of State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Grant No. IPOC2015ZC07).

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    Wenjun Liu, Hao Yan & Ming Lei

  2. Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Wenjun Liu & Lihui Pang

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Liu, W., Pang, L., Yan, H. et al. Optical soliton shaping in dispersion decreasing fibers. Nonlinear Dyn 84, 2205–2209 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-016-2639-y

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