Snowmelt Soliton Research

Professor A. E. Siegman, Stanford University siegman@stanford.edu
Soliton propagation in optical fibers is a topic of considerable interest because of its relevance to fiber optic telecommunications. The following pages summarize experimental results on soliton propagation in another waveguiding system that have been obtained over the past several years in a laboratory specially instrumented for such research:

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