title: Disturbance of soliton pulse propagation from higher-order dispersive waveguides.
abstract: Optical soliton pulses offer many applications within optical communication systems, but by definition a soliton is only subjected to second-order anomalous group-velocity-dispersion; an understanding of higher-order dispersion is necessary for practical implementation of soliton pulses. A numerical model of a waveguide was developed using the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, with parameters set to ensure the input pulse energy would be equal to the fundamental soliton energy. Higher-order group-velocity-dispersion was gradually increased, for various temporal widths and waveguide dispersions. A minimum pulse duration of 100 fs was determined to be necessary for fundamental soliton pulse propagation in practical photonic crystal waveguides.
authors.affiliation: Navy Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Joint Base, McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, Lakehurst, New Jersey 08733, USA. matthew.marko@navy.mil
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marko
authors.forename: Andrzej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Veitia
authors.forename: Xiujian
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Jiangjun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zheng