title: Dispersion-managed breathers with average normal dispersion.
abstract: Analytic and numerical evidence is presented that demonstrates that a dispersion-managed breather can be supported in an optical fiber even when the average dispersion is in the normal regime. This nonlinear behavior, which is contrary to guiding-center theory, is shown to originate from the reversible dynamics associated with the strong quadratic chirp that is generated in both the anomalous and the normal dispersion regimes.
authors: J N
authors: JN
authors: Kutz
authors: S G
authors: SG
authors: Evangelides