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Solitons in a disordered anisotropic optical medium

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The radiation-mediated interaction of solitons in a one-dimensional nonlinear medium (optical fiber) with birefringent disorder is shown to be independent of the separation between solitons. The effect produces a potentially dangerous contribution to the signal lost.

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  1. Theoretical Division, LANL, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA

    M. Chertkov & I. Gabitov

  2. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akademika Lavrent’eva 11, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    I. Kolokolov

  3. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Kosygina 2, Moscow, 117334, Russia

    V. Lebedev

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From Pis’ma v Zhurnal Éksperimental’no\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) i Teoretichesko\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) Fiziki, Vol. 74, No. 11, 2001, pp. 608–611.

Original English Text Copyright © 2001 by Chertkov, Gabitov, Kolokolov, Lebedev.

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Chertkov, M., Gabitov, I., Kolokolov, I. et al. Solitons in a disordered anisotropic optical medium. Jetp Lett. 74, 535–538 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1450285

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