Bright and dark solitons in the normal dispersion regime of inhomogeneous optical fibers: Soliton interaction and soliton control

Exact Solution of the Korteweg—de Vries Equation for Multiple Collisions of Solitons

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Transmission of stationary nonlinear optical pulses in dispersive dielectric fibers. I. Anomalous dispersion

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Experimental Observation of Picosecond Pulse Narrowing and Solitons in Optical Fibers

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Exact envelope-soliton solutions of a nonlinear wave equation

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Natural Sciences, Physics, Differential Equations +16

Dark optical solitons: physics and applications

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