Collisions of two solitons in an arbitrary number of coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations.
We show that pairwise soliton collisions in N>2 intensity-coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations can be reduced to pairwise soliton collisions in two coupled equations. The reduction applies to a wide class of systems, including the N-component Manakov system. This greatly simplifies the analysis of such systems and has important implications for the application of soliton collisions to all-optical computing.
Soljacić
Marin
M
Department of Physics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Steiglitz
Ken
K
Sears
Suzanne M
SM
Segev
Mordechai
M
Jakubowski
Mariusz H
MH
Squier
Richard
R