title: Dispersion-managed solitons in the normal dispersion regime: a physical interpretation.
abstract: We present an analytic description of dispersion-managed soliton propagation based on split-step and variational models. Using these models, we derive the threshold map strength for the existence of dispersion-managed solitons in the normal dispersion regime and obtain a bound on the maximum normal average dispersion.
authors: J H
authors: JH
authors: Nijhof
authors: W
authors: W
authors: Forysiak
authors: N J
authors: NJ
authors: Doran