摘要： The propagation of laser pulses in multicore fibers (MCFs) made of a central core and an even number of cores located in a ring around it is studied. Approximate quasisoliton homogeneous solutions of the wave field in the MCF considered are found. The stability of the in-phase soliton distribution is shown analytically and numerically. At low energies, its wave field is distributed over all MCF cores and has a duration that exceeds the duration of the nonlinear Schr?dinger equation (NSE) soliton with the same energy by many (i.e., five to six) times. In contrast, almost all of the radiation at high energies is concentrated in the central core with a duration similar to the NSE soliton. The transition between the two types of distributions is very sharp and occurs at a critical energy, which is weakly dependent on the number of cores and on the coupling coefficient with the central core. The self-compression mechanism of laser pulses was proposed. It consists in injecting such MCFs with a wave packet being similar to the found soliton and having an energy larger than the critical value. It is shown that the compression ratio depends weakly on the energy and the number of cores and is approximately equal to six times with an energy efficiency of almost 100%. The use of longer laser pulses allows one to increase the compression ratio up to 30–40 times with an energy efficiency of more than 50%. The obtained analytical estimates of the compression ratio and its efficiency are in good agreement with the results of a numerical simulation.