Moment Equations for Optical Pulses in Dispersive and Dissipative Systems
01 July 2005
The moment method is used to derive evolution equations for the energy, width and chirp of an optical pulse in a dispersive and dissipative (filtered) system. This method is conceptually simpler than the variational and soliton- perturbation methods, and allows the dispersion and dissipation coefficients to have arbitrary relative magnitude.