Kuznetsov–Ma soliton and Akhmediev breather of higher-order nonlinear Schrdinger equation

In terms of Darboux transformation, we have exactly solved the higher-order nonlinear Schrdinger equation that describes the propagation of ultrashort optical pulses in optical fibers. We discuss the modulation instability(MI) process in detail and find that the higher-order term has no effect on the MI condition. Under different conditions, we obtain Kuznetsov–Ma soliton and Akhmediev breather solutions of higher-order nonlinear Schrdinger equation. The former describes the propagation of a bright pulse on a continuous wave background in the presence of higher-order effects and the soliton's peak position is shifted owing to the presence of a nonvanishing background, while the latter implies the modulation instability process that can be used in practice to produce a train of ultrashort optical soliton pulses.     

Optical breakdown and filamentation of femtosecond laser pulses propagating in air at a kHz repetition rate

We report the experiments on the optical breakdown and filamentation of femtosecond laser pulses propagating in air at a kHz repetition rate and with several hundreds micro-joule-energy.A 10m-long filament and its breakup and merging at the nonlinear focal region produced by modulational instability of femtosecond laser pulses in air are observed.A simple model based on the nonlinear Schroedinger equation coupled with multiphoton ionization law is presented to explain the several experimental results.     

Comparison of Solutions of the General Nonlinear Amplitude Equation and a Modified Schrӧdinger Equation

We review the dynamics of narrow and broad-band optical pulses in nonlinear dispersive media. A major problem that arises during the development of theoretical models, which describe accurately and correctly the behavior of these pulses, is the limited application of the nonlinear Schr?dinger equation. It describes very well the evolution of nanosecond and picosecond laser pulses. However, when we investigate the propagation of femtosecond and attosecond light pulses, it is necessary to use the more general nonlinear amplitude equation. We show that in this equation two additional terms are included and they have a significant impact on the phase of the pulse. We perform numerical simulations and show the temporal shift of the position of fundamental solitons. This effect depends on the initial duration of the laser pulses. To clarify the influence of the additional terms on the parameters of the optical pulses, we consider the nonlinear amplitude equation, which is a modified nonlinear Schr?dinger equation.     

Optical filaments and optical bullets in dispersive nonlinear media

We have investigated the evolution of picosecond and femtosecond optical pulses governed by the amplitude vector equation in the optical and UV domains. We have written this equation in different coordinate frames, namely, in the laboratory frame, the Galilean frame, and the moving-in-time frame and have normalized it for the cases of different and equal transverse and longitudinal sizes of optical pulses or modulated optical waves. For optical pulses with a small transverse size and a large longitudinal size (optical filaments), we obtain the well-known paraxial approximation in all the coordinate frames, while for optical pulses with relatively equal transverse and longitudinal sizes (so-called light bullets), we obtain new non-paraxial nonlinear amplitude equations. In the case of optical fields with low intensity, we have reduced the nonlinear amplitude vector equations governing the light-bullet evolution to the linear amplitude equations. We have solved the linear equations using the method of Fourier transform. An unexpected new result is the relative stability of light bullets and the significant decrease in the diffraction enlargement of light bullets with respect to the case of long pulses in the linear propagation regime.     

非线性色散渐减光纤中高峰值脉冲的激发和传输

本文基于变系数的非线性薛定谔方程,数值地讨论高峰值脉冲在色散渐减光纤中的激发和传输。首先,基于变系数非线性薛定谔方程的Peregrine孤子解,解析和数值地讨论精确的Peregrine孤子在色散渐减光纤中的传输特性。其次,通过输入不同的平面波背景上的局域脉冲,研究高峰值脉冲在非线性色散渐减光纤中的激发和传输。结果显示Peregrine孤子在色散渐减光纤中传输时,会产生一个空间和时间都局域化的高峰值单脉冲,并且当啁啾为负时,脉冲的幅值增加,脉宽被压缩。若光纤系统存在增益,脉冲的幅值也会增加。由于非线性光纤中的调制不稳定性过程,不同平面波背景上的小局部扰动都可激发出高峰值脉冲,除了峰值和宽度略有不同外,激发脉冲的形状几乎相同。     

Self-organization of two-dimensional waves in an active dispersive-dissipative nonlinear medium

We consider the pattern-formation dynamics of a two-dimensional (2D) nonlinear evolution equation that includes the effects of instability, dissipation, and dispersion. We construct 2D stationary solitary pulse solutions of this equation, and we develop a coherent structures theory that describes the weak interaction of these pulses. We show that in the strongly dispersive case, 2D pulses organize themselves into V shapes. Our theoretical findings are in good agreement with time-dependent computations of the fully nonlinear system.     

Collapse of solitary waves near the transition from supercritical to subcritical bifurcations

The nonlinear stage of the instability of one-dimensional solitons within a small vicinity of the transition point from supercritical to subcritical bifurcations has been studied both analytically and numerically using the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation. It is shown that the pulse amplitude and its width near the collapsing time demonstrate a self-similar behavior with a small asymmetry at the pulse tails due to self-steepening. This theory is applied to solitary interfacial deep-water waves, envelope water waves with a finite depth, and short optical pulses in fibers.     

Rogue wave solutions of the vector Lakshmanan–Porsezian–Daniel equation

We use a nonrecursive Darboux transformation method to obtain a special hierarchy of rogue wave solutions of the vector Lakshmanan–Porsezian–Daniel equation, which can govern the propagation of ultrashort optical pulses in a long-haul telecommunication fiber. In terms of the exact rational solutions, we demonstrate several interesting rogue wave dynamics such as rogue wave doublets, quartets and sextets. The modulation instability responsible for the excitation of rogue waves from an unstable continuous background in such a complex nonlinear system is also discussed.     

Snake instability of a spatiotemporal bright soliton stripe

We study experimentally the snake instability of the bright soliton stripe of the (2+1)-dimensional hyperbolic nonlinear Schr?dinger equation. The instability is observed, through spectral measurements, on spatially extended femtosecond pulses propagating in a normally dispersive self-defocusing semiconductor planar waveguide.     

Photoacoustic point source

We investigate the photoacoustic effect generated by heat deposition at a point in space in an inviscid fluid. Delta-function and long Gaussian optical pulses are used as sources in the wave equation for the displacement potential to determine the fluid motion. The linear sound-generation mechanism gives bipolar photoacoustic waves, whereas the nonlinear mechanism produces asymmetric tripolar waves. The salient features of the photoacoustic point source are that rapid heat deposition and nonlinear thermal expansion dominate the production of ultrasound.     

色散缓变光纤中宽带调制不稳定性谱的产生

本文报道色散缓变光纤中调制不稳定性效应研究.从非线性Schrodinger方程出发,获得了增益谱与纵向色散变化参量和光纤传输距离的一般关系.研究发现,色散缓变光纤中调制不稳定性的增益谱较常规光纤中的宽得多.调节光纤色散纵向变化参量,可以得到较宽的增益谱.该文的研究结果为光纤中利用调制不稳定性产生超短孤子脉冲提供了理论根据.     

基于复Ginzburg-Landau方程的双核光纤中调制不稳定性的仿真研究

在双核光纤光学系统中,应用复Ginzburg-Landau方程,研究了连续波的不稳定性问题.双核光纤光学系统是由一个非线性离散主核和一个线性附核构成的.研究发现,在线性微扰下存在调制不稳定性.系统仿真结果表明：如果充分考虑调制不稳定性,则该系统将产生规则或者不规则的脉冲序列.反之,如果不考虑调制不稳定性它将产生一连串具有连续增长振幅的离散峰.这表明在反常群速度色散情况下,一串归零脉冲的峰值或者单一归零脉冲峰值仍然是增强的.在光纤中产生归零序列脉冲源,这一研究结果对全光纤通信有一定的价值,对光纤光学及物理学 关键词： 光孤子 复Ginzburg-Landau方程 双核光纤 调制不稳定性     

Dynamics of coupled ultraslow optical solitons in a coherent four-state double-${\sf \Lambda}$ system

We present a systematical investigation, both analytical and numerical, on the dynamics of two nearly lossless and distortion-free weak nonlinear optical pulses in a cold, lifetime-broadened four-state double-Λ system via electromagnetically induced transparency. Starting from theequations of motion of atomic response and probe fields, we give a detail derivation of two coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations that control the nonlinear evolution of two probe field envelopes by means of a standard method of multiple-scales. We show that stable optical solitons with very slow propagating velocity can be generated under very low input light intensity when working in the transparency window of probe absorption spectrum induced by two continuous-wave control fields. We demonstrate that coupled optical soliton pairs are possible in the system through cross-phase modulational instability and mutual trapping effect of solitons. We provide various coupled optical soliton pair solutions explicitly and analyze their stability numerically.     

Cascade compression induced by nonlinear barriers in propagation of optical solitons

We investigate the nonlinear tunneling of optical solitons through both dispersion and nonlinear barriers by employing the exact solution of the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation with variable coefficients. The extensive numerical simulations show that the optical solitons can be efficiently compressed when they pass through adequate engineered nonlinear barriers. A cascade compression system in a dispersion decreasing fiber with nonlinear barriers on an exponential background is proposed and the cascade compression of optical pulses is further investigated in detail. Finally, the stability to various initial perturbations of the cascade compressed optical soliton and the interaction between two neighboring compressed solitons were investigated too.     

Nonlinear focusing of picosecond baseband pulses in paraelectric crystals

The nonlinear baseband electromagnetic pulses of a wide spectrum that lies in terahertz (THz) range are investigated theoretically in the paraelectric crystals like SrTiO₃ at the temperatures ~ 77 K. The frequency dispersion is important in THz range there. The dominating nonlinearity of the crystal is cubic. The frequency dispersion and nonlinearity correspond to existence of envelope solitons and the modulation instability of long input envelope pulses, whereas in the transverse direction the modulation instability is absent. When the nonlinear wave is uniform in the transverse direction, the existence of soliton-like baseband pulses without a carrier frequency has been demonstrated. There exists a possibility to generate the regular sequences of short baseband pulses due to the nonlinearity in the paraelectric crystals. The nonlinear focusing of input long baseband pulses by the exciting antenna results in the formation of extremely short baseband pulses localized both in the longitudinal and transverse directions.     

Observation of the snake instability of a spatially extended temporal bright soliton

The transverse snake instability of the bright soliton solution of the (2+1)-dimensional hyperbolic nonlinear Schr?dinger equation is experimentally studied. We observed this instability in the spatial distribution of the temporal spectrum of spatially extended femtosecond pulses propagating in normally dispersive self-defocusing planar semiconductor waveguide.     

Filamentational instability of partially coherent femtosecond optical pulses in air

The filamentational instability of spatially broadband femtosecond optical pulses in air is investigated by means of a kinetic wave equation for spatially incoherent photons. An explicit expression for the spatial amplification rate is derived and analyzed. It is found that the spatial spectral broadening of the pulse can lead to stabilization of the filamentation instability. Thus optical smoothing techniques could optimize current applications of ultrashort laser pulses, such as atmospheric remote sensing.     

Optical pulse compression of ultrashort laser pulses in an argon-filled planar waveguide

We investigate the possibility of optical pulse compression of high energy ultrashort laser pulses in an argon-filled planar waveguide, based on two level coupled mode theory and the full 3D nonlinear Schr?dinger equation. We derive general expressions for controlling the spatial beam profile and the extent of the spectral broadening. The analysis and simulations suggest that the proposed method should be appropriate for optical pulse compression of ultrashort laser pulses with energies as high as 600 mJ.