Abstract

This paper describes a computerized approach to the problem of optical soliton reflection and/or transmission at an optical guide boundary. Even though a considerable amount of work has been concentrated on the process of generating and examining soliton pulses in optical fibers [1-4], some attention needs to be focused on the actual stability of these pulses vis-a-vis such physically realistic effects as geometrical distortions in the fiber, including bending and torsion, and the associated radiation and mode-conversion phenomena. A robust soliton communication system must take into account the possibility of solitons breaking up at boundaries and discontinuities, or perhaps "hopping" between lower and higher orders.

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