Chirped soliton fission and fusion in dispersion oscillating fibers

Abstract

We found that pre-chirp of initial pulses allows to control both the fission and fusion of solitons in dispersion oscillating fiber characterized by a sinusoidally varying group velocity dispersion. The fission of second order solitons and collision of two co-propagated solitons are considered. It is shown that initial chirp can prevent the resonant fission of second order soliton into two pulses propagating with different group velocities. Inelastic collision of two in-phase solitons is found can be quite different, when the chirp imposed on initial pulses. The soliton transformation reflects in the set of output eigenvalues of the Zakharov–Shabat spectral problem. Manipulation of the input pulse chirp allows to control both real and imaginary parts of the eigenvalues at the output of the fiber.