title: Dispersion-managed soliton dynamics.
abstract: We obtain and solve algebraic eigenvalue equations that predict the dependence of the pulse energy of a dispersion-managed soliton on pulse duration, chirp, and dispersion-map parameters. We demonstrate that a variational ansatz based on a Gaussian pulse shape remains useful even when the actual pulse shape is not Gaussian, and we show that the enhancement factor saturates as the pulse duration decreases.
authors.forename: V S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Grigoryan
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Golovchenko
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Menyuk
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Pilipetskii