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Phys Rev Lett
; 90(25 Pt 1): 254102, 2003 Jun 27.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-12857135
ABSTRACT
We show that pairwise soliton collisions in N>2 intensity-coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations can be reduced to pairwise soliton collisions in two coupled equations. The reduction applies to a wide class of systems, including the N-component Manakov system. This greatly simplifies the analysis of such systems and has important implications for the application of soliton collisions to all-optical computing.