Optical Rogue Wave Excitation and Modulation on a Bright Soliton Background

We study rogue waves in an inhomogeneous nonlinear optical fiber with variable coefficients.An exact rogue wave solution that describes rogue wave excitation and modulation on a bright soliton pulse is obtained.Special properties of rogue waves on the bright soliton,such as the trajectory and spectrum,are analyzed in detail.In particular,our analytical results suggest a way of sustaining the peak shape of rogue waves on the soliton background by choosing an appropriate dispersion parameter.     

Rogue waves of a (3+1)-dimensional BKP equation

We investigate certain rogue waves of a (3+1)-dimensional BKP equation via the Kadomtsev-Petviashili hierarchy reduction method. We obtain semi-rational solutions in the determinant form, which contain two special interactions: (i) one lump develops from a kink soliton and then fuses into the other kink one; (ii) a line rogue wave arises from the segment between two kink solitons and then disappears quickly. We find that such a lump or line rogue wave only survives in a short time and localizes in both space and time, which performs like a rogue wave. Furthermore, the higher-order semi-rational solutions describing the interaction between two lumps (one line rogue wave) and three kink solitons are presented.     

Localized waves in three-component coupled nonlinear Schrdinger equation

We study the generalized Darboux transformation to the three-component coupled nonlinear Schr ¨odinger equation.First-and second-order localized waves are obtained by this technique.In first-order localized wave,we get the interactional solutions between first-order rogue wave and one-dark,one-bright soliton respectively.Meanwhile,the interactional solutions between one-breather and first-order rogue wave are also given.In second-order localized wave,one-dark-one-bright soliton together with second-order rogue wave is presented in the first component,and two-bright soliton together with second-order rogue wave are gained respectively in the other two components.Besides,we observe second-order rogue wave together with one-breather in three components.Moreover,by increasing the absolute values of two free parameters,the nonlinear waves merge with each other distinctly.These results further reveal the interesting dynamic structures of localized waves in the three-component coupled system.     

Rogue waves management by external potentials

We study the effect of time-dependent linear and quadratic potentials on the profile and dynamics of rogue waves represented by a Peregrine soliton. The Akhmediev breather, Ma breather, bright soliton, Peregrine soliton, and constant wave (CW) are all obtained by changing the value of one parameter in the general solution corresponding to the amplitude of the input CW. The corresponding solutions for the case with linear and quadratic potentials were derived by the similarity transformation method. While the peak height and width of the rogue wave turn out to be insensitive to the linear potential, the trajectory of its center-of-mass can be manipulated with an arbitrary time-dependent slope of the linear potential. With a quadratic potential, the peak height and width of the rogue wave can be arbitrarily manipulated to result, for a special case, in a very intense pulse.     

Generalized Darboux Transformations,Rogue Waves,and Modulation Instability for the Coherently Coupled Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations in Nonlinear Optics

Nonlinear optics plays a central role in the advancement of optical science and laser‐based technologies. The second‐order rogue‐wave solutions and modulation instability for the coherently coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations with the positive coherent coupling in nonlinear optics are reported in this paper. Generalized Darboux transformations for such coupled equations are derived, with which the second‐order rational solutions for the purpose of modelling the rogue waves are obtained. With respect to the slowly‐varying complex amplitudes of two interacting optical modes, it is observed that 1) number of valleys of the second‐order rogue waves increases and peak value of the second‐order rogue wave decreases first and then increases; 2) single‐hump second‐order rogue wave turns into the double‐hump second‐order rogue wave; 3) single‐hump bright second‐order rogue wave turns into the dark second‐order rogue wave and finally becomes the three‐hump bright second‐order rogue wave. Meanwhile, baseband modulation instability through the linear stability analysis is seen.     

A train of bright and dark-rogue wave solitons in a polariton fluid with inhomogeneous strength interaction

We solve using the similarity transformation method a one-dimensionless driven-dissipative nonlinear Schrödinger equation to explore the dynamics of the rogue wave solitons generated in a polariton fluid. Under resonant excitation, we predict the existence of the bright and the dark-rogue waves solitons by varying the external pump source parameter. By considering, a time periodic polariton–polariton interaction and adjusting its frequency, the rogue wave soliton trains occur in a polariton fluid. In addition we observe that, the amplitude of the pump power is responsible to the formation of a the train of the bright and the dark rogue waves solitons.     

Localized waves of the coupled cubic–quintic nonlinear Schrdinger equations in nonlinear optics

We investigate some novel localized waves on the plane wave background in the coupled cubic–quintic nonlinear Schr o¨dinger(CCQNLS) equations through the generalized Darboux transformation(DT). A special vector solution of the Lax pair of the CCQNLS system is elaborately constructed, based on the vector solution, various types of higherorder localized wave solutions of the CCQNLS system are constructed via the generalized DT. These abundant and novel localized waves constructed in the CCQNLS system include higher-order rogue waves, higher-order rogues interacting with multi-soliton or multi-breather separately. The first-and second-order semi-rational localized waves including several free parameters are mainly discussed:(i) the semi-rational solutions degenerate to the first-and second-order vector rogue wave solutions;(ii) hybrid solutions between a first-order rogue wave and a dark or bright soliton, a second-order rogue wave and two dark or bright solitons;(iii) hybrid solutions between a first-order rogue wave and a breather, a second-order rogue wave and two breathers. Some interesting and appealing dynamic properties of these types of localized waves are demonstrated, for example, these nonlinear waves merge with each other markedly by increasing the absolute value of α.These results further uncover some striking dynamic structures in the CCQNLS system.     

Lump solitons,rogue wave solutions and lump-stripe interaction phenomena to an extended (3+1)-dimensional KP equation

By using a direct method, we construct the Hirota bilinear form for an extended (3+1)-dimensional Kadomtsev–Petviashvili (KP) equation. Based on this bilinearization, the lump solitons and rogue wave solutions are investigated. Constraint conditions for the wave propagation and velocity for lump solitons are found and verified by figures. Also the lump-stripe interaction was investigated to show that the lump solitons will be swallowed by the stripe soliton. Finally, the dynamic behaviour for the obtained lump solution, rogue wave and lump-stripe soliton interaction by suitable special parameters is shown graphically.     

General Higher-Order Breather and Hybrid Solutions of the Fokas System

Fokas system is the simplest (2+1)-dimensional extension of the nonlinear Schr?dinger (NLS) equation (Eq.(2), Inverse Problems 10 (1994) L19-L22).By appropriately limiting on soliton solutions generated by the Hirota bilinear method, the explicit forms of $n$-th breathers and semi-rational solutions for the Fokas system are derived. The obtained first-order breather exhibits arange of interesting dynamics. For high-order breather, it has more rich dynamical behaviors.The first-order and the second-order breather solutions are given graphically. Using the long wave limit in soliton solutions, rational solutions are obtained, which are used to analyze the mechanism of the rogue wave and lump respectively.By taking a long waves limit of a part of exponential functions in $f$ and $g$ appeared in the bilinear form of the Fokas system, many interesting hybrid solutions are constructed. The hybrid solutions illustrate various superposed wave structures involving rogue waves, lumps, solitons, and periodic line waves. Their rather complicated dynamics are revealed.     

Electrostatic cnoidal waves and soliton structures in multi‐ions plasmas

Using a reductive perturbation technique (RPT), the Korteweg‐de Vries (KdV) equation for nonlinear electrostatic waves in multi‐ion plasmas is derived with appropriate boundary conditions. Furthermore, compressive and rarefactive cnoidal wave and soliton solutions are discussed. In our model, the multi‐ion plasma consists of light dynamic warm ions, heavy cold ions, and inertialess electrons, which follows the Maxwell‐Boltzmann distribution. It is observed that in such an unmagnetized multi‐ion plasma, two characteristic electrostatic waves i.e., slow ion‐acoustic (SIA) waves and fast ion‐acoustic (FIA) waves, can propagate. The results are discussed by considering two types of multi‐ion plasmas i.e., H⁺–O⁺–e plasma and H^?–O⁺–e plasma that exist in space plasmas. It is found that for H⁺–O⁺–e plasma, the SIA cnoidal wave and soliton form both positive (compressive) and negative (rarefactive) potential pulses, which depend on the temperature and density of the light and warm ions. However, only electrostatic positive potential structures are obtained for FIA cnoidal wave and soliton in H⁺–O⁺–e plasma. In the case of H^?–O⁺–e plasma, the SIA cnoidal wave and soliton form only compressive structures, while the FIA cnoidal wave and soliton compose rarefactive structures. The effects of light ions' density and temperature on nonlinear potential structures are investigated in detail. The parametric results are also demonstrated, which are applicable to space and laboratory multi‐ion plasma situations.     

Hirota方程的怪波解及其传输特性研究

求出了高阶Hirota方程在可积条件下的一种精确呼吸子解,并基于此呼吸子解得到了Hirota方程的一种怪波解.在此怪波解的基础上研究了怪波的激发,发现对平面波进行周期性扰动可以激发怪波,对平面波进行高斯扰动可以更快地激发怪波,还可以直接在常数项上增加高斯扰动激发怪波.作为一个实例,采用分步傅里叶方法数值研究了在考虑自频移和拉曼增益时怪波的传输特性,自频移使怪波中心发生偏移,拉曼增益使得怪波分裂得更快,而且拉曼增益值越大怪波分裂得越快,但是拉曼增益对怪波的峰值强度没有明显影响.最后数值模拟了相邻怪波之间的相互作用特点,随着怪波之间距离的减小,怪波将合二为一,成为一束怪波,之后再分裂,并分析了拉曼增益和自频移对怪波相互作用的影响.     

Dynamics of new higher-order rational soliton solutions of the modified Korteweg–de Vries equation

By virtue of the bilinear method and the KP hierarchy reduction technique, exact explicit rational solutions of the multicomponent Mel’nikov equation and the multicomponent Schrödinger–Boussinesq equation are constructed, which contain multicomponent short waves and single-component long wave. For the multicomponent Mel’nikov equation, the fundamental rational solutions possess two different behaviours: lump and rogue wave. It is shown that the fundamental (simplest) rogue waves are line localised waves which arise from the constant background with a line profile and then disappear into the constant background again. The fundamental line rogue waves can be classified into three: bright, intermediate and dark line rogue waves. Two subclasses of non-fundamental rogue waves, i.e., multirogue waves and higher-order rogue waves are discussed. The multirogue waves describe interaction of several fundamental line rogue waves, in which interesting wave patterns appear in the intermediate time. Higher-order rogue waves exhibit dynamic behaviours that the wave structures start from lump and then retreat back to it. Moreover, by taking the parameter constraints further, general higher-order rogue wave solutions for the multicomponent Schrödinger–Boussinesq system are generated.     

Could rogue waves be used as efficient weapons against enemy ships?

The title of this paper is more provocative than serious, since its aim, in this special issue of EPJ, is mainly to heat up discussions and debates on the topic of rogue waves. Our goal is to reach a better understanding of the phenomenon, rather than to use it as a destructive tool. It is clear from previous studies that rogue waves are formed due to at least two mechanisms of amplification, rather than in a single stage. The first mechanism is modulation instability and Akhmediev breathers while the second one is multiple soliton collisions. In this short article, we consider soliton collisions with energy exchange as one of the important mechanisms of nonlinear amplification that can irreversibly lead to the creation of giant waves that we can call “rogue waves”.     

Conservation laws,solitons, breather and rogue waves for the (2+1)-dimensional variable-coefficient Nizhnik–Novikov–Veselov system in an inhomogeneous medium

In this paper, we consider the (2+1)-dimensional variable-coefficient Nizhnik–Novikov–Veselov system in an inhomogeneous medium, which is the isotropic Lax integrable extension of the Korteweg-de Vries equation. Infinitely-many conservation laws are constructed. N-soliton solutions in terms of the Wronskian are obtained via the Hirota method. Velocity and shape of the soliton can be influenced by those variable coefficients, while the amplitude of the soliton can not be affected. Collision between the two solitons is shown to be elastic. Breather wave solutions are constructed via the trilinear method. Such phenomena as the deceleration and compression of the breather waves are studied graphically. Rogue wave solutions are derived when the periods of the breather wave solutions go to the infinity. Separated and united composite rogue waves are discussed graphically.     

Nonautonomous Dark Solitons and Rogue Waves in a Graded-Index Grating Waveguide

We analytically present a family of nonautonomous dark solitons and rogue waves in a planar graded-index grating waveguide with an additional long-period grating.The dark solitons whose dynamics described by the explicit expressions such as the valley,background and wave central position are investigated.We find that dark soliton's depth and the long-period grating have effects on soliton's wave central position;the gain or loss term affects directly both the background and valley of the soliton.For rogue waves,it is reported that one can modulate the distribution of the light intensity by adjusting the parameters of the long-period grating.Additionally,more rogue waves with different evolution behaviors in this special waveguide are demonstrated clearly.     

暗怪波的相互作用

以耦合非线性薛定谔方程为理论模型,数值研究了两个一阶暗怪波在正常色散单模光纤中的相互作用.基于一阶暗怪波精确解,采用分步傅里叶数值模拟法,从间距、相位差和振幅系数比方面讨论相邻两个一阶暗怪波之间的相互作用.基于二阶暗怪波精确解,讨论了两个一阶暗怪波的非线性相互作用.研究结果表明:同相位情况下,间距参数T1为0、5、20时,相邻两个一阶暗怪波相互作用激发产生“扭结型”暗怪波.相比较于单个暗怪波发生能量的弥散,“扭结型”暗怪波分裂形成多个次暗怪波.反相位情况下,间距参数T1为2、7、12时,相邻两个一阶暗怪波相互作用也可以激发产生“扭结型”暗怪波.并且“扭结型”暗怪波初始激发的空间位置偏离原始单个暗怪波的位置5.振幅系数比越大,该空间位置越接近5.二阶暗怪波可以看作是两个一阶暗怪波的非线性叠加,复合型和三组分型二阶暗怪波与相邻两个一阶暗怪波的相互作用略有相似.     

Solitons molecules,lump and interaction solutions to a (2+1)-dimensional Sharma–Tasso–Olver–Burgers equation

Different resonance constraints enrich the behavior of soliton solutions. The soliton molecules, which are the bound states of solitons, can be set off by the velocity resonance. The lump waves, which are localized in all directions in space, are theoretically regarded as a limit form of soliton in some ways. In this paper, a (2+1)-dimensional Sharma–Tasso–Olver–Burgers (STOB) equation is investigated. Soliton (kink) molecule, half periodic kink(HPK) and HPK molecule are studied. Then the lump solution is obtained and the interactions between lump and kink molecule are discussed. The kink molecule-lump solutions exhibit a fusion phenomenon and a rogue (instanton) phenomenon, respectively.     

Formation mechanism of asymmetric breather and rogue waves in pair-transition-coupled nonlinear Schr?dinger equations

Based on the developed Darboux transformation, we investigate the exact asymmetric solutions of breather and rogue waves in pair-transition-coupled nonlinear Schr?dinger equations. As an example, some types of exact breather solutions are given analytically by adjusting the parameters. Moreover, the interesting fundamental problem is to clarify the formation mechanism of asymmetry breather solutions and how the particle number and energy exchange between the background and soliton ultimately form the breather solutions. Our results also show that the formation mechanism from breather to rogue wave arises from the transformation from the periodic total exchange into the temporal local property.     

Vector dissipative solitons in graphene mode locked fiber lasers

Vector soliton operation of erbium-doped fiber lasers mode locked with atomic layer graphene was experimentally investigated. Either the polarization rotation or polarization locked vector dissipative solitons were experimentally obtained in a dispersion-managed cavity fiber laser with large net cavity dispersion, while in the anomalous dispersion cavity fiber laser, the phase locked nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) solitons and induced NLSE soliton were experimentally observed. The vector soliton operation of the fiber lasers unambiguously confirms the polarization insensitive saturable absorption of the atomic layer graphene when the light is incident perpendicular to its 2-dimentional (2D) atomic layer.