Vector solitons in semiconductor quantum dots

A theory of an optical vector soliton of self-induced transparency in an ensemble of semiconductor quantum dots is considered. By using the perturbative reduction method, the system of the Maxwell–Liouville equations is reduced to the two-component coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations. It is shown that a distribution of transition dipole moments of the quantum dots and phase modulation changes significantly the pulse parameters. The shape of the optical two-component vector soliton with the sum and difference of the frequencies in the region of the carrier frequency is presented. The vector soliton can be reduced to the breather solution of self-induced transparency with a different profile. Explicit analytical expressions in the presence of single-excitonic and biexcitonic transitions for the optical vector soliton are obtained with realistic parameters which can be reached in current experiments.     

Dynamics of bound vector solitons induced by stochastic perturbations: Soliton breakup and soliton switching

We respectively investigate breakup and switching of the Manakov-typed bound vector solitons (BVSs) induced by two types of stochastic perturbations: the homogenous and nonhomogenous. Symmetry-recovering is discovered for the asymmetrical homogenous case, while soliton switching is found to relate with the perturbation amplitude and soliton coherence. Simulations show that soliton switching in the circularly-polarized light system is much weaker than that in the Manakov and linearly-polarized systems. In addition, the homogenous perturbations can enhance the soliton switching in both of the Manakov and non-integrable (linearly- and circularly-polarized) systems. Our results might be helpful in interpreting dynamics of the BVSs with stochastic noises in nonlinear optics or with stochastic quantum fluctuations in Bose–Einstein condensates.     

Two-component vector solitons in defocusing Kerr-type media with spatially modulated nonlinearity

We present a class of exact solutions to the coupled (2+1$2+1$)-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation with spatially modulated nonlinearity and a special external potential, which describe the evolution of two-component vector solitons in defocusing Kerr-type media. We find a robust soliton solution, constructed with the help of Whittaker functions. For specific choices of the topological charge, the radial mode number and the modulation depth, the solitons may exist in various forms, such as the half-moon, necklace-ring, and sawtooth vortex-ring patterns. Our results show that the profile of such solitons can be effectively controlled by the topological charge, the radial mode number, and the modulation depth.     

Collision between scalar and vector spatial solitons in Kerr media

Experimental observation and numerical results concerning collisions between scalar and vector spatial solitons in a Kerr planar waveguide are presented. It is shown that this configuration allows for the full control of spatial and polarization dynamics of the interacting vector solitons. On the one hand, the ability to achieve polarization control of a single-hump vector soliton is demonstrated. On the other hand, the effect of collision on the spatial symmetry-breaking dynamics of multimode vector solitons is investigated.     

Surface solitons in trilete lattices

Fundamental solitons pinned to the interface between three semi-infinite one-dimensional nonlinear dynamical chains, coupled at a single site, are investigated. The light propagation in the respective system with the self-attractive on-site cubic nonlinearity, which can be implemented as an array of nonlinear optical waveguides, is modeled by the system of three discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equations. The formation, stability and dynamics of symmetric and asymmetric fundamental solitons centered at the interface are investigated analytically by means of the variational approximation (VA) and in a numerical form. The VA predicts that two asymmetric and two antisymmetric branches exist in the entire parameter space, while four asymmetric modes and the symmetric one can be found below some critical value of the inter-lattice coupling parameter—actually, past the symmetry-breaking bifurcation. At this bifurcation point, the symmetric branch is destabilized and two new asymmetric soliton branches appear, one stable and the other unstable. In this area, the antisymmetric branch changes its character, getting stabilized against oscillatory perturbations. In direct simulations, unstable symmetric modes radiate a part of their power, staying trapped around the interface. Highly unstable asymmetric modes transform into localized breathers traveling from the interface region across the lattice without significant power loss.     

超短脉冲径向偏振光束的解析解及时空耦合效应

从超短脉冲光束的傍轴传输方程出发, 运用傅里叶变换和相关数学算符的对易性, 得到了超短脉冲径向偏振光束的解析表达式.该解可适用于任意脉冲驱动的径向偏振光束. 基于该解析表达式并结合具体例子,讨论了超短脉冲径向偏振光束在自由空间中的传输性质. 结果表明, 在传输过程中时空耦合主要体现在光束边沿的脉冲延迟. 这一效应导致了脉冲不同时间位置处横向光强分布随传输的变化, 以及脉冲前后沿关于束腰的不对称性. 本文的方法同样适用于得到超短脉冲方位角偏振光束的解析解和传输性质.     

Interactions between two-dimensional solitons in the diffractive-diffusive Ginzburg-Landau equation with the cubic-quintic nonlinearity

We report the results of systematic numerical analysis of collisions between two and three stable dissipative solitons in the two-dimensional (2D) complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE) with the cubic-quintic (CQ) combination of gain and loss terms. The equation may be realized as a model of a laser cavity which includes the spatial diffraction, together with the anomalous group-velocity dispersion (GVD) and spectral filtering acting in the temporal direction. Collisions between solitons are possible due to the Galilean invariance along the spatial axis. Outcomes of the collisions are identified by varying the GVD coefficient, β, and the collision “velocity” (actually, it is the spatial slope of the soliton’s trajectory). At small velocities, two or three in-phase solitons merge into a single standing one. At larger velocities, both in-phase soliton pairs and pairs of solitons with opposite signs suffer a transition into a delocalized chaotic state. At still larger velocities, all collisions become quasi-elastic. A new outcome is revealed by collisions between slow solitons with opposite signs: they self-trap into persistent wobbling dipoles, which are found in two modifications — horizontal at smaller β, and vertical if β is larger (the horizontal ones resemble “zigzag” bound states of two solitons known in the 1D CGL equation of the CQ type). Collisions between solitons with a finite mismatch between their trajectories are studied too.     

Internal oscillation of vector solitons and necklace solitons

Internal modes and internal oscillation of vector solitons associated with photoisomerization and necklace solitons in Bessel lattices are researched. While white noise gives rise to the unsmoothness of the vector solitons, the perturbation of internal modes results in the long-distance quasi-periodic oscillation of soliton shape. Internal modes of two-dimensional necklace solitons in Bessel lattices have both real and imaginary parts, which is different with the internal modes of one-dimensional solitons which have only real part.     

One-dimensional nonparaxial bright solitons and their coherent interactions in Kerr media

<正>The existence of one-dimensional bright Kerr solitons is investigated in Kerr media beyond the paraxial approximation. It is found that a nonparaxial soliton with no less than a minimum dimensionless width of about 0.76 can exist, which corresponds to the real width about a wavelength.Besides,the coherent interactions between two nonparaxial bright solitons in Kerr media are also investigated in detail.It is found that their separation and intensity ratio have great influence on the coherent interaction between these two solitons.Furthermore,the effect of the relative phase difference on the nonparaxial interaction is quite different from that on the paraxial interaction.Periodical breath, merging,repulsion,and energy transferring can be realized separately by choosing an appropriate initial relative phase between the coherent solitons.     

Incoherent interaction between one- and two-dimensional solitons in noncentrosymmetric photorefractive media

The incoherent interaction between solitons with different transverse dimensions in a noncentrosymmetric photorefractive crystal is studied both in theory and in experiment. An anomalous incoherent interaction between one- and two-dimensional solitons, whose attractive and repulsive effects depend on the soliton separation, is numerically demonstrated by employing an anisotropic model. By launching a one-dimensional green beam and a two-dimensional red beam into a biased SBN:60 crystal, the hybrid-dimensional soliton interaction is performed. The experimental results are in good agreement with the numerical ones.     

Stable high-dimensional solitons in nonlocal competing cubic-quintic nonlinear media

We find and stabilize high-dimensional dipole and quadrupole solitons in nonlocal competing cubic-quintic nonlinear media. By adjusting the propagation constant, cubic, and quintic nonlinear coefficients, the stable intervals for dipole and quadrupole solitons that are parallel to the x-axis and those after rotating 45° counterclockwise around the origin of coordinate are found. For the dipole solitons and those after rotation, their stability is controlled by the propagation constant, the coefficients of cubic and quintic nonlinearity. The stability of quadrupole solitons is controlled by the propagation constant and the coefficient of cubic nonlinearity, rather than the coefficient of quintic nonlinearity, though there is a small effect of the quintic nonlinear coefficient on the stability. Our proposal may provide a way to generate and stabilize some novel high-dimensional nonlinear modes in a nonlocal system.     

共振光子晶体中Laue孤子传播的动力学行为

从理论上研究了Laue孤子传播的动力学行为，并通过数值模拟验证了这些行为.结果表明，由于非线性衍射，入射脉冲会分裂产生四种模式，其中产生的Laue孤子的传播行为与一般共振介质中孤子的传播行为相似.     

非局域克尔介质中空间光孤子的相互作用

研究了强非局域克尔介质中光束的演化规律，通过相位分析得到了空间孤子相互作用所满足 的非局域非线性薛定谔方程的简化近似模型，并获得了双光束传输的解析解.结果表明在传 输过程中相互作用的高斯光束的相位决定于它们的输入总功率.以振幅一强一弱共同传输的 高斯光束为例进行了具体研究，得到了强光和弱光的解析式，相位分析显示弱光在相当短的 传输距离之内能产生大的相移，可以通过对强光能量的调控来实现对弱光的相位调制. 关键词： 非局域克尔介质 空间光孤子 孤子相互作用 相位调制     

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.     

Few-cycle relativistic solitons in plasmas

A set of exact one-dimensional solutions to coupled nonlinear equations describing the propagation of a relativistic ultrashort circularly polarized laser pulse in a cold collisionless and bounded plasma where electrons have an initial velocity in the laser propagating direction is presented. The solutions investigated here are in the form of quickly moving envelop solitons at a propagation velocity comparable to the light speed. The features of solitons in both underdense and overdense plasmas with electrons having different given initial velocities in the laser propagating direction are described. It is found that the amplitude of solitons is larger and soliton width shorter in plasmas where electrons have a larger initial velocity. In overdense plasmas, soliton duration is shorter, the amplitude higher than that in underdense plasmas where electrons have the same initial velocity.     

超短脉冲光通过光折变体光栅衍射及透射光强的瞬时变化特性研究

采用Kogelnik的耦合波理论,研究了超短脉冲光通过光折变体光栅的衍射及透射光强在时域的瞬时变化特性.发现衍射和透射脉冲波形与读出脉冲宽度、光栅周期、光栅厚度及光折变材料的折射率调制大小有密切关系.通过调整这些参量的数值,可以获得需要的脉冲形状.同时还发现衍射和透射脉冲在时间轴上有一定的偏移,偏移量的大小与参量选择有关.     

空间光孤子脉冲在平面光波导中的传输

分析研究了空间光孤子脉冲化后在反常群速色散的克尔非线性平面光波导中的传输特性和稳 定性.当空间光孤子脉冲的时间宽度等于某一临界值时，脉冲发生自陷，小于该值时，脉冲 发生扩散，大于该值时，脉冲发生塌陷.空间光孤子的阶数越高，这个临界值越小.当空间光 孤子脉冲的时间宽度等于某一特定值时，脉冲塌陷最快，与这个特定值相差越大，塌陷越慢 .空间光孤子的阶数越高，这个特定值越小.脉冲自陷后的峰值光强、时间和空间宽度与输入 时的值有明显的不同. 关键词： 脉冲自陷 脉冲塌陷 光孤子     

Temporal characteristics of few-cycle pulse on- and non-resonance propagating in a ladder-type atomic medium

Time evolution characteristic of few-cycle pulse propagating in a ladder-type atomic medium is investigated. It is shown that, time evolution of few-cycle pulse has significant difference in the both cases on- and non-resonance. In the non-resonant case, if the pulse central frequency is twice as large as medium atomic transition frequency, the pulse form (including carry-envelope phase, pulse duration, oscillation amplitude and frequency) remains unchanging or remains unchanging basically (only carry-envelope phase has some variation) in the propagation process, which means that self-induced transparency (SIT) or approximate transparency phenomenon appears. However, in the resonant case, the pulse form changes obviously in the propagation process. In addition, there is evident difference in the propagating velocity for on- and non-resonance when the pulse area is smaller.     

单模锥形光纤锥区光场及超短脉冲的传输特性

根据光波导理论,采用数值方法分析了单模锥形光纤锥区传输常数和光场分布的变化情况.采用分步傅里叶法数值求解广义的非线性薛定谔方程,对超短脉冲在锥区的传输演化进行了研究.结果表明:传输常数沿拉锥方向缓慢减小,在拉锥末端迅速减小;在拉锥初始阶段,能量主要集中在纤芯中,"转换点"之后能量在纤芯和包层中重新分布,光强在拉锥末端变强;脉宽小于80 fs的超短脉冲沿锥区传输时,沿拉锥方向,脉冲不断展宽,而当脉宽大于80 fs时,脉冲展宽不明显.     

单模锥形光纤锥区光场及超短脉冲的传输特性

根据光波导理论,采用数值方法分析了单模锥形光纤锥区传输常数和光场分布的变化情况.采用分步傅里叶法数值求解广义的非线性薛定谔方程,对超短脉冲在锥区的传输演化进行了研究.结果表明:传输常数沿拉锥方向缓慢减小,在拉锥末端迅速减小|在拉锥初始阶段,能量主要集中在纤芯中,“转换点”之后能量在纤芯和包层中重新分布,光强在拉锥末端变强|脉宽小于80 fs的超短脉冲沿锥区传输时,沿拉锥方向,脉冲不断展宽,而当脉宽大于80 fs时,脉冲展宽不明显.