title: Optical similaritons in nonlinear waveguides.
abstract: We discover analytically an extensive family of optical similaritons, propagating inside graded-index nonlinear waveguide amplifiers. We show that there exists a one-to-one correspondence between these novel similaritons and standard solitons of the homogeneous nonlinear Schrödinger equation. We demonstrate that for certain inhomogeneity and gain profiles, the newly discovered similaritons turn into solitons over sufficiently long propagation distances.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
authors.forename: Sergey A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Ponomarenko
authors.forename: Govind P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Agrawal