Abstract

Over the past few years there has been considerable research undertaken into the problem of soliton propagation in birefringent fibers [1-5]. It was found that solitons are stable against birefringence, i.e. soliton polarization components couple through cross-phase modulation and the two-component (vector) soliton propagates as a single unit [1]. Vector solitons have been observed numerically [1, 2, 4] and experimentally [3, 5].

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