Coupling of Cutoff Modes in a Chain of Nonlinear Metallic Nanorods

We study the coupling of cutoff modes in a chain of metallic nanorods embedded in a Kerr nonlinear optical medium with strong near-field interactions analytically.Based on a quasidiscreteness approach,we derive a system of two coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations governing the evolution of the envelopes of these modes.It is shown that this system supports a variety of subwavelength plasmonic lattice vector solitons of the brightbright,bright-dark,dark-bright,and dark-dark type through a cross-phase modulation.It is also shown that the existence of different solitons depends strongly on the gap width scaled for the rod radius and the type of nonlinearity of the embedded medium.     

Dark-bright discrete solitons: A numerical study of existence, stability and dynamics

In the present work, we numerically explore the existence and stability properties of different types of configurations of dark-bright solitons, dark-bright soliton pairs and pairs of dark-bright and dark solitons in discrete settings, starting from the anti-continuum limit. We find that while single discrete dark-bright solitons have similar stability properties to discrete dark solitons, their pairs may only be stable if the bright components are in phase and are always unstable if the bright components are out of phase. Pairs of dark-bright solitons with dark ones have similar stability properties as individual dark or dark-bright ones. Lastly, we consider collisions between dark-bright solitons and between a dark-bright one and a dark one. Especially in the latter and in the regime where the underlying lattice structure matters, we find a wide range of potential dynamical outcomes depending on the initial soliton speed.     

二元玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体中矢量孤子的转化行为

考虑种内和种间相互作用均为排斥作用,研究了局限于谐振外部势阱中的二元玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体中灰-灰和黑-黑孤子的动力学行为.结果表明:当谐振势阱的轴向囚禁频率为零时,灰-灰和黑-黑孤子均能保持局域稳定;而当轴向囚禁频率不为零时,凝聚体中的原子向势阱中心聚集,发现灰-灰孤子可以转化成亮-亮孤子.     

Interference properties of two-component matter wave solitons

Wave properties of solitons in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate are investigated in detail.We demonstrate that dark solitons in one of components admit interference and tunneling behavior,in sharp contrast to the scalar dark solitons and vector dark solitons.Analytic analyses of interference properties show that spatial interference patterns are determined by the relative velocity of solitons,while temporal interference patterns depend on the velocities and widths of two solitons,differing from the interference properties of scalar bright solitons.Especially,for an attractive interactions system,we show that interference effects between the two dark solitons can induce some short-time density humps(whose densities are higher than background density).Moreover,the maximum hump value is remarkably sensitive to the variation of the solitons' parameters.For a repulsive interactions system,the temporal-spatial interference periods of dark-bright solitons have lower limits.Numerical simulation results suggest that interference patterns for the dark-bright solitons are more robust against noises than bright-dark solitons.These explicit interference properties can be used to measure the velocities and widths of solitons.It is expected that these interference behaviors can be observed experimentally and can be used to design matter wave soliton interferometer in vector systems.     

Rogue-wave pair and dark-bright-rogue wave solutions of the coupled Hirota equations

Novel explicit rogue wave solutions of the coupled Hirota equations are obtained by using the Darboux transformation.In contrast to the fundamental Peregrine solitons and dark rogue waves, we present an interesting rogue-wave pair that involves four zero-amplitude holes for the coupled Hirota equations. It is significant that the corresponding expressions of the rogue-wave pair solutions contain polynomials of the fourth order rather than the second order. Moreover, dark-brightrogue wave solutions of the coupled Hirota equations are given, and interactions between Peregrine solitons and dark-bright solitons are analyzed. The results further reveal the dynamical properties of rogue waves for the coupled Hirota equations.     

Propagation of nonlocal optical solitons in lossy media with exponential-decay response

Propagation of optical solitons in lossy nonlocal media with exponential-decay response was investigated theoretically. The analytical solutions of nonlocal solitons and breathers are obtained by variational approach which is applied to a (1 + 1)D nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equation. The critical power of soliton and period of breathers are also obtained in the absence of the loss. When the loss is relatively small, the average beam width of breathers has a trend to expand during propagation. The analytical results are confirmed by numerical simulation.     

Lax pair and vector semi-rational nonautonomous rogue waves for a coupled time-dependent coefficient fourth-order nonlinear Schr?dinger system in an inhomogeneous optical fiber

Optical fibers are seen in the optical sensing and optical fiber communication. Simultaneous propagation of optical pulses in an inhomogeneous optical fiber is described by a coupled time-dependent coefficient fourth-order nonlinear Schr?dinger system, which is discussed in this paper. For such a system, we work out the Lax pair, Darboux transformation, and corresponding vector semi-rational nonautonomous rogue wave solutions. When the group velocity dispersion(GVD) and fourth-order dispersion(FOD) coefficients are the constants, we exhibit the first-and second-order vector semirational rogue waves which are composed of the four-petalled rogue waves and eye-shaped breathers. Both the width of the rogue wave along the time axis and temporal separation between the adjacent peaks of the breather decrease with the GVD coefficient or FOD coefficient. With the GVD and FOD coefficients as the linear, cosine, and exponential functions, we respectively present the first-and second-order periodic vector semi-rational rogue waves, first-and second-order asymmetry vector semi-rational rogue waves, and interactions between the eye-shaped breathers and the composite rogue waves.     

Lax pair and vector semi-rational nonautonomous rogue waves for a coupled time-dependent coefficient fourth-order nonlinear Schrodinger system in an inhomogeneous optical fiber

Optical fibers are seen in the optical sensing and optical fiber communication. Simultaneous propagation of optical pulses in an inhomogeneous optical fiber is described by a coupled time-dependent coefficient fourth-order nonlinear Schr?dinger system, which is discussed in this paper. For such a system, we work out the Lax pair, Darboux transformation, and corresponding vector semi-rational nonautonomous rogue wave solutions. When the group velocity dispersion(GVD) and fourth-order dispersion(FOD) coefficients are the constants, we exhibit the first-and second-order vector semirational rogue waves which are composed of the four-petalled rogue waves and eye-shaped breathers. Both the width of the rogue wave along the time axis and temporal separation between the adjacent peaks of the breather decrease with the GVD coefficient or FOD coefficient. With the GVD and FOD coefficients as the linear, cosine, and exponential functions, we respectively present the first-and second-order periodic vector semi-rational rogue waves, first-and second-order asymmetry vector semi-rational rogue waves, and interactions between the eye-shaped breathers and the composite rogue waves.     

Comparison of pulse evolutions in low and ultra-large anomalous dispersion mode-locked fiber lasers

We have investigated and compared the pulse evolutions in low and ultra-large anomalous dispersion erbium-doped fiber lasers mode-locked by the nonlinear polarization rotation technique. Two lasers deliver the pulses that exhibit quite distinct characteristics such as pulse duration, spectral width, and spectral sidebands. Experimental observations show that the spectral width decreases from several nanometers to less than one nanometer whereas pulse duration extends about three times by changing the cavity dispersion from −0.03 to −15.50 ps². The solitons in ultra-large anomalous fiber laser show dips in the optical spectrum, which is quite distinct from that of conventional solitons observed in low anomalous regime.     

Exciting rogue waves,breathers, and solitons in coherent atomic media

We propose a scheme that excites rogue waves via electromagnetically induced transparency(EIT), which can also excite breathers and solitons. The system is a resonant Λ-type atomic ensemble. Under EIT conditions, the envelope equation of the probe field can be reduced to several different models, such as the saturable nonlinear Schr?dinger equation(SNLSE), and SNLSE with the trapping potential provided by a far-detuned laser field or a magnetic field. In this scheme, rogue waves can be generated by different initial pulses, such as the Gaussian wave with(or without) the uniform background. The scheme can be used to obtain rogue waves,breathers and solitons. We show the existence regions of rogue waves, breathers, and solitons as the function of the amplitude and width of the initial pulse. The novelty of our paper is that, we not only show rogue waves in the integrable system numerically, but also present the method to generate and control rogue waves in the non-integrable system.     

Gray photorefractive polymeric optical spatial solitons

We show that gray spatial optical solitons are possible in biased photorefractive polymers under steady-state conditions. We find that for a given material parameter the absolute value of a gray photorefractive polymeric soliton's phase decreases with an increase in the beam's grayness, whereas it increases with the material parameter for a given beam's grayness and that the full width half maximum (FWHM) of the gray soliton beam's intensity increases with the beam's grayness when the normalized background intensity and the material parameter are fixed and decreases with an increase in the normalized background intensity when the material parameter is fixed. On the other hand, we also show that N coupled beam evolution equations in biased photorefractive polymers can exhibit multicomponent gray solitons. These multicomponent gray solitons can be obtained provided that the N coupled beams share the same polarization, wavelength, and are incoherent with one another. The characteristics and stability properties of these multicomponent gray solitons are also discussed in detail.     

Optical Rectification and Generation of Harmonics Under Condition of Propagation of Few-Cycle Pulses in the Birefringent Medium with Asymmetric Molecules

Without using the approximation of slowly varying envelopes, we investigate spectral transformations of vector few-cycle and quasi-monochromatic solitons under propagation in the birefringent medium of asymmetric molecules possessing permanent dipole moments. We show that when an ordinary pulse enters the medium, the self-modulation effect arises. As a result, the spectrum of the ordinary component undergoes significant changes from the violet shift and the generation of odd harmonics with close frequency satellites to the supercontinuum including zero frequency. The spectrum of the extra-ordinary few-cycle pulse also has the properties of a supercontinuum. When a quasi-monochromatic ordinary pulse enters the medium in the spectrum of an extra-ordinary component, the effect of optical rectification with simultaneous generation of the second harmonics is clearly manifested.     

(1+1)维强非局域非线性介质中的高阶模呼吸子

基于强非局域非线性介质中的Snyder-Mitchell模型,利用分离变量法得到了(1 1)维光束传输的厄米-高斯型解析解.比较厄米-高斯型解析解与非局域非线性薛定谔方程的数值解,证实了,在强非局域条件下,该厄米-高斯型解与数值解完全吻合.对厄米-高斯光束的传输特性进行研究,结果表明,光束束宽会出现周期性的压缩或者展宽现象.并且得到了实现厄米-高斯光束稳定传输的临界功率、厄米-高斯孤子解及传输常量,临界功率与厄米-高斯光束的阶数无关,但传输常量随阶数的增加而增加.高斯呼吸子和高斯孤子就是基模厄米-高斯呼吸子和基模厄米-高斯孤子.     

Effect of the amplitude of excitation pulses on the shape of photon-echo signals in two-level systems

It is theoretically established that multiple photon-echo signals reflect the oscillatory structure of the primary echo signal, which arises under the conditions of collinear excitation of two-level active centers by laser pulses having the same width but different amplitudes. It is shown that the oscillatory structure of the primary photon echo exists within the intervals (?t ₁, t ₁) and (?2t ₁, 2t ₁), where t ₁ is the pulse width. It is found that, when the pulse width is of the same order of magnitude as the delay between the pulses and the amplitudes of the excitation pulses obey certain relations, the oscillatory structure of the primary photon-echo signal becomes asymmetric. In the mode of quadratic detection of the primary photon-echo signal, the asymmetric oscillatory structure of the primary echo manifests itself as a manifold of isolated signals (multiple photon echoes), with the time intervals between these signals being equal to the pulse width.     

中心对称双光子光折变低振幅灰孤子时间特性

为了得到中心对称双光子光折变晶体中低振幅灰空间孤子时间特性的结果,基于中心对称光折变晶体中双光子光折变效应的理论模型,推导出了含时间参量的空间电荷场和光波动态演化方程.采用数值方法,得到了低振幅灰孤子强度包络和强度半峰全宽的时间演化特性.结果表明:初始阶段形成宽度较宽的孤子,其宽度随时间单调递减到一个最小值直至稳态孤子的形成;在相同的演化时间内,孤子半峰全宽随着孤子峰值强度与暗辐射比值的增大而变小.研究了不同时间下低振幅灰孤子动态演化特性.     

Sine Hollow Solitons and Breathers in Nonlocal Media

The nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NNLSE) describes the propagation dynamics of optical beams in nonlinear media with a spatial nonlocal response. Based on NNLSE, we obtain the generalized sine hollow solitons and breathers and show that the transverse intensity evolutions of them are always periodical. However, if the incident power takes a critical value, the beam width can remain invariant during the propagation, just like the solitons. Otherwise, the beam width varies periodically, just like the breathers. We investigate the evolution characteristics for both cases analytically and numerically in detail.     

Multisoliton solutions with even numbers and its generated solutions for nonlocal Fokas-Lenells equation

In this letter, we investigate multisoliton solutions with even numbers and its generated solutions for nonlocal Fokas-Lenells equation over a nonzero background. First, we obtain 2n-soliton solutions with a nonzero background via n-fold Darboux transformation, and find that these soliton solutions will appear in pairs. Particularly, 2n-soliton solutions consist of n ‘bright' solitons and n ‘dark' solitons. This phenomenon implies a new form of integrability: even integrability. Then interactions between solitons with even numbers and breathers are studied in detail. To our best knowledge, a novel nonlinear superposition between a kink and 2n-soliton is also generated for the first time. Finally, interactions between some different smooth positons with a nonzero background are derived.     

强双折射光纤中暗孤子的传输特性研究

从光纤双折射参量、背景光宽度、孤子脉冲宽度三方面探讨暗孤子在双折射光纤中远距离传输特性研究表明:相对于亮孤子,暗孤子对光纤双折射的自适应能力较弱;背景光宽度越大,暗脉冲与背景光对比度越好,暗孤子越能保持原来黑孤子状态;暗孤子脉冲宽度越大,偏振脉冲之间的差分群时延越大,诱导的灰孤子震荡结构越明显,越不利于暗孤子远距离传输.     

Propagation of vector solitons in a quasi-resonant medium with stark deformation of quantum states

The nonlinear dynamics of a vector two-component optical pulse propagating in quasi-resonance conditions in a medium of nonsymmetric quantum objects is investigated for Stark splitting of quantum energy levels by an external electric field. We consider the case when the ordinary component of the optical pulse induces ?? transitions, while the extraordinary component induces the ?? transition and shifts the frequencies of the allowed transitions due to the dynamic Stark effect. It is found that under Zakharov-Benney resonance conditions, the propagation of the optical pulse is accompanied by generation of an electromagnetic pulse in the terahertz band and is described by the vector generalization of the nonlinear Yajima-Oikawa system. It is shown that this system (as well as its formal generalization with an arbitrary number of optical components) is integrable by the inverse scattering transformation method. The corresponding Darboux transformations are found for obtaining multisoliton solutions. The influence of transverse effects on the propagation of vector solitons is investigated. The conditions under which transverse dynamics leads to self-focusing (defocusing) of solitons are determined.     

Dynamics of dark-bright solitons in cigar-shaped Bose-Einstein condensates

We explore the stability and dynamics of dark-bright (DB) solitons in two-component elongated Bose-Einstein condensates by developing effective one-dimensional vector equations and solving the three-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equations. A strong dependence of the oscillation frequency and of the stability of the DB soliton on the atom number of its components is found; importantly, the wave may become dynamically unstable even in the 1D regime. As the atom number in the dark-soliton-supporting component is further increased, spontaneous symmetry breaking leads to oscillatory dynamics in the transverse degrees of freedom. Moreover, the interactions of two DB solitons are investigated with an emphasis on the importance of their relative phases. Experimental results showcasing multiple DB soliton oscillations and a DB-DB collision in a Bose-Einstein condensate consisting of two hyperfine states of ⁸⁷Rb confined in an elongated optical dipole trap are presented.