The Kerr-type nonlinearity in an amplifying fibre may initiate the spontaneous formation of short pulses in Er3+- and Nd3+-fibre lasers with intracavity frequency shifters. A numerical model and experiments are presented which show that besides a single pulse per cavity roundtrip, higher order soliton-like solutions exist.
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Sabert et al. (1993) studied this question.