Solitons in a disordered anisotropic optical medium
M. Chertkov, I. Gabitov, I. Kolokolov+, V. Lebedev*
Theoretical Division, LANL, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
+Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
*Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, 117334 Moscow, Russia
PACS: 05.45.-a, 42.81.Dp, 46.65.+g
Abstract
The radiation mediated interaction of solitons in a one-dimensional
nonlinear medium (optical fiber) with birefringent disorder is
shown to be independent of the separation between solitons. The
effect produces a potentially dangerous contribution into the
signal lost.