Abstract

When an ultra-short pulse propagates down an anomolously dispersive birefringent, optical fibre, complex features develop which require explanation. These include the generation of soliton shadows, internal oscillation of the (vector) soliton, and an inelastic scattering between solitons with an accompanying generation of radiation. The purpose of this talk is to describe a perturbation theory based on inverse, scattering theory which admits useful application to the study of these, and other, observed features. The theory is first described, then applied to some of these problems and results compared with those presented elsewhere.

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