Optical Solitary Waves in Fourth-Order Dispersive Nonlinear Schr(o)dinger Equation with Self-steepening and Self-frequency Shift

By making use of the generalized sine-Gordon equation expansion method, we find cnoidal periodic wave solutions and fundamental bright and dark optical solitarywave solutions for the fourth-order dispersive and the quintic nonlinear Schrodinger equation with self-steepening, and self-frequency shift. Moreover, we discuss the formation conditions of the bright and dark solitary waves.     

A new trial equation method for finding exact chirped soliton solutions of the quintic derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation with variable coefficients

In this work, we propose an efficient generalization of the trial equation method introduced recently by Liu [Appl. Math. Comput. 217 (2011) 5866] to construct exact chirped traveling wave solutions of complex differential equations with variable coefficients. The effectiveness of the proposed method has been tested by applying it successfully to the quintic derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation with variable coefficients. As a result, a class of chirped soliton-like solutions including bright and kink solitons is derived for the first time. Compared with previous work of Liu in which unchirped solutions were given, we obtain exact chirped solutions which have nontrivial phase that varies as a function of the wave intensity. These localized structures characteristically exist due to a balance among the group-velocity dispersion, self-steepening and competing cubic-quintic nonlinearity. Parametric conditions for the existence of envelope solutions with nonlinear chirp are also presented. It is shown that the chirping can be effectively controlled through the variable parameters of group-velocity dispersion and self-steepening.     

Periodic and solitary wave solutions of cubic–quintic nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation with variable convection coefficients

Attempts have been made to explore the exact periodic and solitary wave solutions of nonlinear reaction diffusion (RD) equation involving cubic–quintic nonlinearity along with time-dependent convection coefficients. Effect of varying model coefficients on the physical parameters of solitary wave solutions is demonstrated. Depending upon the parametric condition, the periodic, double-kink, bell and antikink-type solutions for cubic–quintic nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation are extracted. Such solutions can be used to explain various biological and physical phenomena.     

Localized and periodic wave patterns for a nonic nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Propagating modes in a class of ‘nonic’ derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equations incorporating ninth order nonlinearity are investigated by application of two key invariants of motion. A nonlinear equation for the squared wave amplitude is derived thereby which allows the exact representation of periodic patterns as well as localized bright and dark pulses in terms of elliptic and their classical hyperbolic limits. These modes represent a balance among cubic, quintic and nonic nonlinearities.     

Generation of time-dependent ultra-short optical pulse trains in the presence of self-steepening effect

Starting from the extended nonlinear Schr?dinger equation in which the self-steepening effect is included, the evolution and the splitting processes of continuous optical wave whose amplitude is perturbed into time related ultra-short optical pulse trains in an optical fibre are numerically simulated by adopting the split-step Fourier algorithm. The results show that the self-steepening effect can cause the characteristic of the pulse trains to vary with time, which is different from the self-steepening-free case where the generated pulse trains consist of single pulses which are identical in width, intensity, and interval, namely when pulses move a certain distance, they turn into the pulse trains within a certain time range. Moreover, each single pulse may split into several sub-pulses. And as time goes on, the number of the sub-pulses will decrease gradually and the pulse width and the pulse intensity will change too. With the increase of the self-steepening parameter, the distance needed to generate time-dependent pulse trains will shorten. In addition, for a large self-steepening parameter and at the distance where more sub-pulses appear, the corresponding frequency spectra of pulse trains are also wider.     

Pulse dynamics in dispersive nonlinear medium in presence of traveling refractive-index wave

The dynamics of wave packets propagating in nonlinear waveguides in presence of a traveling refractive-index wave is investigated. It is shown that the regime of self-steepening is possible in these waveguides not only at the trailing edge of the wave packet, but also at its leading edge. Nonreciprocal effects are typically observed when the optical pulse and the wave of optical inhomogeneity are either co- or counterpropagating.     

Dark optical solitons in power law media with time-dependent coefficients

This Letter talks about the dynamics of dark optical solitons that are governed by the nonlinear Schrödinger's equation with power law nonlinearity. The solitons are considered in presence of linear attenuation, third order dispersion and self-steepening terms, all with time-dependent coefficients. The solitary wave ansatz is used to carry out the integration and an exact soliton solution is obtained. It is only necessary that these time-dependent coefficients are Riemann integrable.     

Localized Optical Waves in Defocusing Regime of Negative-Index Materials

We study optical localized waves on a plane-wave background in negative-index materials governed by the defocusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation with self-steepening effect. Important characteristics of localized waves,such as the excitations, transitions, propagation stability, and mechanism, are revealed in detail. An intriguing sequential transition that involves the rogue wave, antidark-dark soliton pair, antidark soliton and antidark soliton pair can be triggered as the self-steepening effect attenuates. The corresponding phase diagram is established in the defocusing regime of negative-index materials. The propagation stability of the localized waves is confirmed numerically. In particular, our results illuminate the transition mechanism by establishing the exact correspondence between the transition and the modulation instability analysis.     

Combined optical solitary waves of the Fokas—Lenells equation

In this work, we investigate the Fokas–Lenells equation describing the propagation of ultrashort pulses in optical fibers when certain terms of the next asymptotic order beyond those necessary for the nonlinear Schrö dinger equation are retained. In addition to group velocity dispersion and Kerr nonlinearity, the model involves both spatio-temporal dispersion and self-steepening terms. A class of exact combined solitary wave solutions of this equation is constructed for the first time, by adopting the complex envelope function ansatz. The influences of spatio-temporal dispersion on the characteristics of combined solitary waves is also discussed.     

Two-dimensional matter-wave solitons and vortices in competing cubic-quintic nonlinear lattices

The nonlinear lattice — a new and nonlinear class of periodic potentials — was recently introduced to generate various nonlinear localized modes. Several attempts failed to stabilize two-dimensional (2D) solitons against their intrinsic critical collapse in Kerr media. Here, we provide a possibility for supporting 2D matter-wave solitons and vortices in an extended setting — the cubic and quintic model — by introducing another nonlinear lattice whose period is controllable and can be different from its cubic counterpart, to its quintic nonlinearity, therefore making a fully “nonlinear quasi-crystal”.A variational approximation based on Gaussian ansatz is developed for the fundamental solitons and in particular, their stability exactly follows the inverted Vakhitov–Kolokolov stability criterion, whereas the vortex solitons are only studied by means of numerical methods. Stability regions for two types of localized mode — the fundamental and vortex solitons — are provided. A noteworthy feature of the localized solutions is that the vortex solitons are stable only when the period of the quintic nonlinear lattice is the same as the cubic one or when the quintic nonlinearity is constant, while the stable fundamental solitons can be created under looser conditions. Our physical setting (cubic-quintic model) is in the framework of the Gross–Pitaevskii equation or nonlinear Schrödinger equation, the predicted localized modes thus may be implemented in Bose–Einstein condensates and nonlinear optical media with tunable cubic and quintic nonlinearities.     

五阶非线性光纤中连续谱相位扰动下的光传输与脉冲串产生

根据包含五阶非线性的扩展非线性薛定谔方程,数值研究了高斯型连续谱相位扰动而不是传统单色扰动下基于调制不稳定性的高重复率脉冲串产生.结果表明:脉冲串也能像传统情形那样形成,但却呈现出不同的特性.如脉冲数目有限,且各脉冲的高度、强度及间距不等.脉冲数目随传输距离增加而增加.而五阶非线性能使脉冲宽度和间距变小因而有利于高重复率脉冲串产生,负五阶非线性则相反.对脉冲串形成过程中演变啁啾的数值计算表明,啁啾及其随距离的变化都是高度非单调的,五阶非线性将改变啁啾的范围和量值.     

Bilinear Forms and Dark-Dark Solitons for the Coupled Cubic-Quintic Nonlinear SchrÕdinger Equations with Variable Coefficients in a Twin-Core Optical Fiber or Non-Kerr Medium*

Twin-core optical fibers are applied in such fields as the optical sensing and optical communication,and propagation of the pulses,Gauss beams and laser beams in the non-Kerr media is reported.Studied in this paper are the coupled cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrodinger equations with variable coefficients,which describe the effects of quintic nonlinearity for the ultrashort optical pulse propagation in a twin-core optical fiber or non-Kerr medium.Based on the integrable conditions,bilinear forms are derived,and dark-dark soliton solutions can be constructed in terms of the Gramian via the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili hierarchy reduction.Propagation and interaction of the dark-dark solitons are presented and discussed through the graphic analysis.With different values of the delayed nonlinear response effect b(z),where z represents direction of the propagation,the linear-and parabolic-shaped one dark-dark soltions can be derived.Interactions between the parabolic-and periodic-shaped two dark-dark solitons are presented with b(z) as the linear and periodic functions,respectively.Directions of velocities of the two dark-dark solitons vary with z and the amplitudes of the solitons remain unchanged can be observed.Interactions between the two dark-dark solitons of different types are displayed,and we observe that the velocity of one soliton is zero and direction of the velocity of the other soliton vary with z.We find that those interactions are elastic.     

各向同性光纤中拉曼增益对光脉冲自陡峭的影响

运用数学解析法导出了关于拉曼增益与自陡峭综合效应的光脉冲传输方程,在此基础上引入洛伦兹模型将拉曼增益整合到非线性系数中来研究光脉冲中拉曼增益对自陡峭效应的作用,重点分析了高斯脉冲在各向同性光纤中传播时,拉曼增益对其自陡峭效应具体影响方式,结果表明拉曼增益会减弱自陡峭中后沿偏移程度,减小脉冲展宽,但不会影响其峰值大小.     

Optical solitons in the parabolic law media with high-order dispersion

The transmission equation of ultrashort optical pulse in the high-order dispersion media with the parabolic law (cubic–quintic) nonlinearity has been studied with the help of the subsidiary ordinary differential equation expansion method. As a result, the optical solitons and triangular periodic solutions are obtained, and the conditions for exact solutions to exist are also given.     

Modulation instability of femtosecond pulses in fibres with slowly decreasing dispersion

In this paper,we investigate the modulation instability for generating femtosecond pulses in fibres with slowly decreasing dispersion.Higher-order dispersion and higher-order nonlinear effects are taken into account when the continuous wave or quasi-continuous wave evolves into sub-picosecond and femtosecond pulses by modulation instability in the optical fibres.Our research results show that the gain spectrum of the dispersion-decreasing fibres is much wider than that in conventional fibres.The third-order dispersion effect has no contribution to gain spectrum,while the self-steepening effect reduces the maximum value and gain bandwidth,and the Raman self-scattering effect widens the extent to which the modulation instability occurs.     

Resonant properties of a nonlinear dissipative layer excited by a vibrating boundary: Q-factor and frequency response

Simplified nonlinear evolution equations describing non-steady-state forced vibrations in an acoustic resonator having one closed end and the other end periodically oscillating are derived. An approach based on a nonlinear functional equation is used. The nonlinear Q-factor and the nonlinear frequency response of the resonator are calculated for steady-state oscillations of both inviscid and dissipative media. The general expression for the mean intensity of the acoustic wave in terms of the characteristic value of a Mathieu function is derived. The process of development of a standing wave is described analytically on the base of exact nonlinear solutions for different laws of periodic motion of the wall. For harmonic excitation the wave profiles are described by Mathieu functions, and their mean energy characteristics by the corresponding eigenvalues. The sawtooth-shaped motion of the boundary leads to a similar process of evolution of the profile, but the solution has a very simple form. Some possibilities to enhance the Q-factor of a nonlinear system by suppression of nonlinear energy losses are discussed.     

1D Solitons in Saturable Nonlinear Media with Space Fractional Derivatives

Two decades ago, standard quantum mechanics entered into a new territory called space-fractional quantum mechanics, in which wave dynamics and effects are described by the fractional Schrödinger equation. Such territory is now a key and hot topic in diverse branches of physics, particularly in optics driven by the recent theoretical proposal for emulating the fractional Schrödinger equation. However, the light-wave propagation in saturable nonlinear media with space fractional derivatives is yet to be clearly disclosed. Here, such nonlinear optics phenomenon is theoretically investigated based on the nonlinear fractional Schrödinger equation with nonlinear lattices—periodic distributions of either focusing cubic (Kerr) or quintic saturable nonlinearities—and the existence and evolution of localized wave structures allowed by the model are addressed. The model upholds two kinds of one-dimensional soliton families, including fundamental solitons (single peak) and higher-order solitonic structures consisting of two-hump solitons (in-phase) and dipole ones (anti-phase). Notably, the dipole solitons can be robust stable physical objects localized merely within a single well of the nonlinear lattices—previously thought impossible. Linear-stability analysis and direct simulations are executed for both soliton families, and their stability regions are acquired. The predicted solutions can be readily observed in optical experiments and beyond.     

Effects of polariton-polariton scattering and the nonlinear properties of polaritonic crystal

The coherent and nonlinear properties of a polaritonic crystal (PolC), formed by trapped two-level atoms in an optical cavity array and interacting with an optical field, are analyzed. The nonlinear Schr?dinger equation is considered for the dynamics of coupled atom-light states and low-branch polaritons associated with PolCs in the continuous medium limit. The existence of a stable ground-state PolC wave function is predicted using the variational approach. For negative scattering lengths, the wave function collapses in the presence of small quintic nonlinearity.     

Spatial optical solitons in fifth order and seventh order weakly nonlocal nonlinear media

We analytically study the (1 + 1)-dimensional spatial optical solitons in weakly nonlocal nonlinear media with cubic–quintic nonlinearity (fifth order nonlinear media) and cubic–quintic–septic nonlinearity (seventh order nonlinear media). Explicit solutions are derived, which include optical bright solitons, singular solutions and singular triangular periodic solution.     

圆杆波导中的一个非线性波动方程及准确周期解

在小变形条件下，采用Cox的非线性应力应变关系，计及横向Possion效应，借助Hamilton变分原理导出了非线性弹性圆杆波导中的纵向波动方程. 利用Jacobi椭圆余弦函数展开法，对该方程与截断的非线性波动方程进行求解，得到了两类非线性波动方程的准确周期解，它们可以进一步退化为孤波解. 关键词： 非线性波 Possion效应 Jacobi椭圆余弦函数