Section: Application Domains

Optical fibers

When designing optical fibers, the question of the envelope dynamics of laser impulses is crucial because its answer decides how much information the fiber will actually be able to carry. Recent progresses in the optical fiber design now allow to choose specific physical parameters very precisely, and the main limitation for being able to design knew and more efficient optical fibers is the understanding of the effect of specific conjunctions of parameter values. In other terms, a main issue is the understanding of the influence of several parameters on specific solutions of nonlinear dispersive equations of Schrödinger type.