Existence of optical solitons on wavelength division multiplexed beams in a nonlinear fiber.

Abstract

A simple analytic expression for the initial fundamental optical solitons on wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) beams in a nonlinear fiber has been found. For an ideal fiber with no loss and uniform group-velocity dispersion (GVD) in the anomalous GVD region, the initial form is [1+2(M-1)](-1/2) sech(tau), where M is the number of WDM beams and tau is the normalized time. Computer simulation shows that these initial pulses on WDM beams in this fiber will propagate undistorted without change in their shapes for arbitrarily long distances. The discovery of the existence of solitons on WDM beams presents the ultimate goal for optical fiber communication on multiple wavelength beams in a single fiber.