Possible manifestations of the quantum Hawking radiation effect in nonlinear optics
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- 103-114
nonlinear optics
black holes
solitons
Hawking temperature
sine-Gordon equation
self-induced transparency
Abstract
The analogy between solitons and black holes is considered for self-induced transparency. In nonlinear optics Hawking radiation can exist. This effect in particular leads to decreasing of soliton energy with time.