Nonlinear propagation of optical pulses of a few oscillations duration in dielectric media

Using a semi-phenomenological model of the polarization response of an isotropic solid dielectric that does not resort to the slowly-varying-envelope approximation, we have obtained a nonlinear wave equation for the electric field of a femtosecond light pulse propagating in the given dielectric. Evidence is presented that this equation possesses breatherlike solutions in the region of anomalous group dispersion and does not have any solutions in the form of steady-state traveling solitary video pulses. A universal relation is found linking the minimum possible duration of a breatherlike pulse with the medium parameters. It is shown that such a pulse contains roughly one and a half periods of the light-wave. Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 111, 404–418 (February 1997)     

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.     

Anomalous dispersion in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction: Experiments and modeling

We report results on dispersion relations and instabilities of traveling waves in excitable systems. Experiments employ solutions of the 1,4-cyclohexanedione Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction confined to thin capillary tubes which create a pseudo-one-dimensional system. Theoretical analyses focus on a three-variable reaction-diffusion model that is known to reproduce qualitatively many of the experimentally observed dynamics. Using continuation methods, we show that the transition from normal, monotonic to anomalous, single-overshoot dispersion curves is due to an orbit flip bifurcation of the solitary pulse homoclinics. In the case of “wave stacking”, this anomaly induces attractive pulse interaction, slow solitary pulses, and faster wave trains. For “wave merging”, wave trains break up in the wake of the slow solitary pulse due to an instability of wave trains at small wavelength. A third case, “wave tracking” is characterized by the non-existence of solitary waves but existence of periodic wave trains. The corresponding dispersion curve is a closed curve covering a finite band of wavelengths.     

Exact self-similar solutions of the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation with distributed coefficients

A broad class of exact self-similar solutions to the nonlinear Schr?dinger equation (NLSE) with distributed dispersion, nonlinearity, and gain or loss has been found. Appropriate solitary wave solutions applying to propagation in optical fibers and optical fiber amplifiers with these distributed parameters have also been studied. These solutions exist for physically realistic dispersion and nonlinearity profiles in a fiber with anomalous group velocity dispersion. They correspond either to compressing or spreading solitary pulses which maintain a linear chirp or to chirped oscillatory solutions. The stability of these solutions has been confirmed by numerical simulations of the NLSE.     

修正高阶非线性薛定锷方程的解析孤波解

解析求解了考虑喇曼自频移效应后的修正高阶非线性薛定锷方程.为了获得精确解,引入了非线性增益和失谐效应.结果给出精确亮孤波解和暗孤波解的表达式,同时给出了两种解存在的参量条件,并且指出亮孤波解存在于负三阶色散区,而暗孤波解存在于正三阶色散区.     

Chirped-pulse oscillators: theory and experiment

Theory of chirped-pulse oscillators operating in the positive dispersion regime is presented. It is found that the chirped pulses can be described analytically as solitary pulse solutions of the nonlinear cubic-quintic complex Ginzburg–Landau equation. Due to the closed form of the solution, basic characteristics of the regime under consideration are easily traceable. Numerical simulations validate the analytical technique and the chirped-pulse stability. Experiments with 10 MHz Ti:Sa oscillator providing up to 150 nJ chirped pulses, which are compressible down to 30 fs, are in agreement with the theory. PACS 42.65.Re; 42.65.Tg; 42.55.Rz     

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.     

Anomalous pulse interaction in dissipative media

We review a number of phenomena occurring in one-dimensional excitable media due to modified decay behind propagating pulses. Those phenomena can be grouped in two categories depending on whether the wake of a solitary pulse is oscillatory or not. Oscillatory decay leads to nonannihilative head-on collision of pulses and oscillatory dispersion relation of periodic pulse trains. Stronger wake oscillations can even result in a bistable dispersion relation. Those effects are illustrated with the help of the Oregonator and FitzHugh-Nagumo models for excitable media. For a monotonic wake, we show that it is possible to induce bound states of solitary pulses and anomalous dispersion of periodic pulse trains by introducing nonlocal spatial coupling to the excitable medium.     

高阶非线性薛定谔方程的精确周期解和孤波解

本文利用行波约化方法,研究了用于描述飞秒光脉冲传输的高阶非线性薛定谔方程,得到了它的包络型Jacobian椭圆函数双周期解和孤波解.分析结果表明亮孤子的存在依赖于负三阶色散效应,暗孤子的存在依赖于正三阶色散效应.     

强双折射光纤中任意偏振方向矢量调制不稳定性

利用光脉冲在非线性双折射光纤中传播时所遵循的相干耦合非线性薛定谔方程,研究了偏振方向与双折射轴成任意角度时，在反常色散区和正常色散区所产生的调制不稳定性.结果表明，在反常色散区和正常色散区存在不稳定偏振区域和稳定偏振区域，对应不同的不稳定偏振区域，输入临界功率不同，脉冲有不同的增益谱. 关键词： 任意偏振方向 矢量调制不稳定性 非线性光纤 双折射     

New Optical Solitons in High-Order Dispersive Cubic-Quintic Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

By using the generalized tanh-function method, we find bright and dark solitary wave solutions to an extended nonlinear Schrödinger equation with the third-order and fourth-order dispersion and the cubic-quintic nonlinear terms, describing the propagation of extremely short pulses. At the same time, we also obtained other types of exact solutions.     

Multiscale pulse dynamics in communication systems with strong dispersion management

The evolution of an optical pulse in a strongly dispersion-managed fiber-optic communication system is studied. The pulse is decomposed into a fast phase and a slowly evolving amplitude. The fast phase is calculated exactly, and a nonlocal equation for the evolution of the amplitude is derived. In the limit of weak dispersion management the equation reduces to the nonlinear Schr?dinger equation. A class of stationary solutions of this equation is obtained; they represent pulses with a Gaussian-like core and exponentially decaying oscillatory tails, and they agree with direct numerical solutions of the full system.     

Analysis of nonlinear gain-induced effects on short-pulse amplification in doped fibers by use of an extended power equation

Optical pulse amplification in doped fibers is studied using an extended power transport equation for the coupled pulse spectral components. This equation includes the effects of gain saturation, gain dispersion, fiber dispersion, fiber nonlinearity, and amplified spontaneous emission. The new model is employed to study nonlinear gain-induced effects on the spectrotemporal characteristics of amplified subpicosecond pulses, in both the anomalous and the normal dispersion regimes.     

Generation of the self-similar parabolic pulses by designing comb-like profiled dispersion fiber based on alternately arranged single-mode fibers and dispersion-shifted fibers

Based on the nonlinear Schrödinger equation and the linearly chirped parabolic pulse generation in the dispersion decreasing fiber with normal dispersion, a novel scheme for the generation of the self-similar parabolic pulse via a comb-like profiled dispersion fiber with normal group-velocity dispersion has been proposed and the corresponding model is established. We study, analytically and numerically, the evolution of the self-similar parabolic pulse in comb-like profiled dispersion fiber with dispersion profile close to that of the dispersion decreasing fiber, and the influence of different initial energies and pulse widths on the linearly chirped parabolic pulse formation in the comb-like profiled dispersion fiber. The results show that the evolution of the self-similar parabolic pulses can realized in the comb-like profiled dispersion fiber, the results of which are in good agreement with these of the dispersion decreasing fiber, and the best-matched scheme of designing and optimizing comb-like profiled dispersion fiber will help to obtain the ideal similaritons.     

Study of Exact Solutions to Cubic-Quintic Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation in Optical Soliton Communication

A systematic method which is based on the classical Lie group reduction is used to find the novel exact solution of the cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation (CQNLS) with varying dispersion, nonlinearity, and gain or absorption. Algebraic solitary-wave as well as kink-type solutions in three kinds of optical fibers represented by coefficient varying CQNLS equations are studied in detail. Some new exact solutions of optical solitary wave with a simple analytic form in these models are presented. Appropriate solitary wave solutions are applied to discuss soliton propagation in optical fibres, and the amplification and compression of pulses in optical fibre amplifiers.     

Effect of initial chirp on near-infrared supercontinuum generation by a nanosecond pulse in a nonlinear fiber amplifier

Theoretical and experimental research on the effect of initial chirp on near-infrared supercontinuum generation by a nanosecond pulse in a nonlinear fiber amplifier is carded out. The complex Ginzburg-Landau equation is used to simulate the propagation of the pulse in the fiber amplifier and the results show that pulses with negative initial chirp produce the widest supercontinuum and pulses with positive initial chirp produce the narrowest supercontinuum when the central wavelength of the pump lies in the normal dispersion region of the gain fiber. A self-made line width narrowing system is utilized to control the initial chirp of the nanosecond pump pulse and a four-stage master oscillator power amplifier configuration is adopted to produce a high power near-infrared suppercontinuum. The experimental results are in good agreement with simulations which can provide some guidance on further optimization of the system in future work.     

高阶色散效应常系数Ginzburg-Landau方程自相似脉冲演化的解析分析

采用自相似分析方法,基于常系数高阶色散的Ginzburg-Landau方程,通过分离变量法得出了高阶色散效应自相似脉冲演化的解析解,给出了自相似脉冲的振幅、相位、啁啾以及脉冲宽度的一般表达式.研究表明,在增益光纤的二阶正常色散区域,同时考虑高阶色散和增益色散双重效应影响下演化的自相似孤子脉冲仍然保持线性啁啾;振幅解析解的三阶色散效应显著.这与数值计算的结果非常一致. 关键词： 三阶色散 Ginzburg-Landau方程 自相似脉冲 二阶正常色散     

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.