Controllable Optical Solitons in Optical Fiber System with Distributed Coefficients

We present how to control the dynamics of optical solitons in optical fibers under nonlinearity and dispersion management, together with the fiber loss or gain. We obtain a family of exact solutions for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, which describes the propagation of optical pulses in optical fibers, and investigate the dynamical features of solitons by analyzing the exact analytical solutions in different physical situations. The results show that under the appropriate condition, not only the group velocity dispersion and the nonlinearity, but also the loss/gain can be used to manipulate the light pulse.