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In order to provide insight to the nature of a lightwave in an optical fiber, in this chapter, we introduce a macroscopic theory of dielectric materials and describe a mathematical formulation of a wave envelope in a nonlinear dispersive medium and in a glass fiber.
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Hasegawa, A., Matsumoto, M. (2003). Lightwave in Fibers. In: Optical Solitons in Fibers. Springer Series in Photonics, vol 9. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-46064-0_3
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