title: Chirped nonlinear pulse propagation in a dispersion-compensated system.
abstract: We study nonlinear pulse propagation in an optical transmission system with dispersion compensation. A chirped nonlinear pulse can propagate in such a system, but eventually it decays into dispersive waves in a way similar to the tunneling effect in quantum mechanics. The pulse consists of a quadratic potential that is due to chirp in addition to the usual self-trapping potential and is responsible for the power enhancement and the decay.
authors.affiliation: Department of Communications Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kodama
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Maruta