Modulational instability of dark solitons in three wave resonant interaction

We study the propagation of velocity-locked dark triplet solitons in the three wave resonant interaction model. The modulational instability of the plane wave background where the solitons sit prevents the long range propagation. However even a small second order dispersion proves to greatly reduce, or suppress, the modulational instability gain, allowing for effective stable soliton propagation.     

On instability of excited states of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

We introduce a new notion of linear stability for standing waves of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) which requires not only that the spectrum of the linearization be real, but also that the generalized kernel be not degenerate and that the signature of all the positive eigenvalues be positive. We prove that excited states of the NLS are not linearly stable in this more restrictive sense. We then give a partial proof that this more restrictive notion of linear stability is a necessary condition to have orbital stability.     

Stability of fundamental solitons of coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations

We present analytical stability criteria for the fundamental solitons of two coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations. The derived stability criteria are applied to the coupled fundamental soliton states in isotropic nonlinear media, in birefringent fibres and in nonlinear couplers. The predictions from the analytical stability criteria are consistent with numerical results.     

Stability of incoherently coupled bright–dark spatial soliton pairs in biased two-photon photovoltaic photorefractive crystals

This paper investigated numerically the stability of bright–dark soliton pairs in biased two-photon photovoltaic photorefractive crystals. Our analysis indicates that these soliton pairs exist irrespective of the polarity of photovoltaic field and external bias field and they are stable only in the particular range of negative polarity. That is to say, the modulational instability emerges for the positive polarity. In range of negative polarity, there exist a characteristic value of photovoltaic field and external bias field. When the values are less than the characteristic value, these bright–dark soliton pairs are stable. If the values are large than the characteristic value, the modulational instability will still emerge.     

Surface solitons at the interface between semi-infinite linear and thermal nonlinear optical media

We investigate numerically surface-wave solitons occurring at the interface between semi-infinite linear and thermal nonlinear optical media, with the refractive index of the linear medium being greater than that of the nonlinear medium (in the absence of light). We find that the threshold energy flows of the existence of the surface solitons depend on the linear refractive index difference of the two media. Their fitting empirical formula has been obtained. Furthermore, we elucidate that the optical beams propagating in thermal nonlinear optical media, either as a single surface soliton or as a dipole surface soliton, can be attracted to the surface, even when launched from far away.     

A comparative numerical study of soliton switching in a nonlinear directional coupler with saturating nonlinearity

A detailed numerical study of soliton switching in a nonlinear directional coupler with saturating nonlinearity is carried out. All commonly used models have been studied. Relevant physical characteristics for switching have been determined, compared and discussed.     

Stability and instability of periodic travelling wave solutions for the critical Korteweg-de Vries and nonlinear Schrödinger equations

In this paper we establish new results about the existence, stability, and instability of periodic travelling wave solutions related to the critical Korteweg-de Vries equation

u_t+5u⁴u_x+u_xxx=0,     

Symmetric and antisymmetric vector solitons for the fractional quadric-cubic coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equation

The fractional quadric-cubic coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equation is concerned, and vector symmetric and antisymmetric soliton solutions are obtained by the square operator method. The relationship between the Lévy index and the amplitudes of vector symmetric and antisymmetric solitons is investigated. Two components of vector symmetric and antisymmetric solitons show a positive and negative trend with the Lévy index, respectively. The stability intervals of these solitons and the propagation constants corresponding to the maximum and minimum instability growth rates are studied. Results indicate that vector symmetric solitons are more stable and have better interference resistance than vector antisymmetric solitons.     

Nonlinear light propagation in the defect band of one-dimensional defective structures

In this paper we numerically investigate the nonlinear propagation of defect state in one-dimensional structures with defects. We investigate the nonlinear transmission spectra and the bistable response for defective structures with different index gradients. The results show that positive Kerr nonlinearity can suppress the Wannier-Stark localization. And the nonlinear response of defect states band exhibits an optical switch behavior, which may be applied to all-optical devices. And the gap solitons from these defect states are presented.     

Interaction of oblique dark solitons in two-dimensional supersonic nonlinear Schrödinger flow

We investigate the collision of two oblique dark solitons in the two-dimensional supersonic nonlinear Schrödinger flow past two impenetrable obstacles. We numerically show that this collision is very similar to the dark solitons collision in the one-dimensional case. We observe that it is practically elastic and we measure the shifts of the solitons positions after their interaction.     

Analytical and numerical study of coupled atomistic-continuum methods for fluids

The stability and convergence rate of coupled atomistic-continuum methods are studied analytically and numerically. These methods couple a continuum model with molecular dynamics through the exchange of boundary conditions in the continuum-particle overlapping region. Different coupling schemes, including velocity–velocity, flux–velocity, velocity–flux and flux–flux, are studied. It is found that the velocity–velocity and flux–velocity schemes are stable. The flux–flux scheme is weakly unstable. The stability of the velocity–flux scheme depends on the parameter T_c which is the length of the time interval between successive exchange of boundary conditions. It is stable when T_c is small and unstable when T_c is large. For steady-state problems, the flux–velocity scheme converges faster than the other coupling schemes.     

Effect of the dark soliton crystal temperature on the deflection of the bright soliton in a separate bright–dark screening soliton pair

We investigate theoretically the dark soliton crystal temperature effect on the deflection of the bright one in a bright–dark soliton pair which is formed in a serial non-photovoltaic photorefractive crystal circuit. Our numerical results show that the spatial shift of the bright soliton changes with the temperature of the dark one crystal and varying the temperature of the dark soliton crystal can influence the deflection strongly. The temperature dependence of the deflection process is further studied by perturbation technique and the results are found to be good agreement with that obtained by numerical method. Relevant examples are provided.     

Stability of plane-wave solutions of a dissipative generalization of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

The modulational instability of perturbed plane-wave solutions of the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation is examined in the presence of three forms of dissipation. We present two families of decreasing-in-magnitude plane-wave solutions to this dissipative NLS equation. We establish that all such solutions that have no spatial dependence are linearly stable, though some perturbations may grow a finite amount. Further, we establish that all such solutions that have spatial dependence are linearly unstable if a certain form of dissipation is present.     

An investigation of dark soliton behaviors within the nonlinear micro and nano ring resonators

We firstly propose the interesting results of a dark soliton pulse propagating within the nonlinear micro and nano waveguides. The system consists of nonlinear micro and nano ring resonators, whereas the dark soliton is input into the system and traveling within the waveguide. A continuous dark soliton pulse is chopped to be the smaller pulses by the nonlinear effects known as chaos. The nonlinear behaviors such as chaos, bistability and bifurcation are analyzed and discussed. The power amplification is the property that can be used to perform the long distance link, where the security is the dominant reason.     

Goos-Hänchen shift and time delay in dispersive nonlinear media

We present an analysis of the influence of the Goos-Hänchen effect on tunneling times, group delay and dwell time, of electromagnetic waves propagating through an obstacle made of left-handed metamaterial embedded in a dielectric which exhibits saturable type of nonlinearity. The derived equations show that only the group delay, is affected by the Goos-Hänchen shift without any impact on the dwell time. Besides the reduction of the group delay, the most remarkable result is the possibility for total reduction of the Goos-Hänchen shift for finite incident angles. These phenomena are observable in the frequency region for which metamaterial exhibits negative index of refraction.     

Quasi-stationary states of the NRT nonlinear Schrödinger equation

With regards to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation recently advanced by Nobre, Rego-Monteiro, and Tsallis (NRT), based on Tsallis q$q$-thermo-statistical formalism, we investigate the existence and properties of its quasi-stationary solutions, which have the time and space dependences “separated” in a q$q$-deformed fashion. One recovers the normal factorization into purely spatial and purely temporal factors, corresponding to the standard, linear Schrödinger equation, when the deformation vanishes (q=1)$(q=1)$. We discuss various specific examples of exact, quasi-stationary solutions of the NRT equation. In particular, we obtain a quasi-stationary solution for the Moshinsky model, providing the first example of an exact solution of the NRT equation for a system of interacting particles.     

Modulational instability and discrete breathers in the discrete cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation

We investigate the properties of modulational instability and discrete breathers in the cubic-quintic discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation. We analyze the regions of modulational instabilities of nonlinear plane waves. Using the Page approach [J.B. Page, Phys. Rev. B 41 (1990) 7835], we derive the conditions for the existence and stability for bright discrete breather solutions. It is shown that the quintic nonlinearity brings qualitatively new conditions for stability of strongly localized modes. The application to the existence of localized modes in the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with three-body interactions in an optical lattice is discussed. The numerical simulations agree with the analytical predictions.     

Multisolitons and stability of two hump solitons of upper cutoff mode in discrete electrical transmission line

We show that a discrete electrical transmission line, such as a Band-pass filter is modeled by the Salerno equation at the upper cutoff mode. Special interest is paid to the investigation of stationary localized solutions supported by this equation for some given experimental parameters. Applying a map approach, the profiles of single and two bright solitons are obtained. Linear stability and direct numerical simulations are performed and the results show that a single bright soliton is stable while two bright ones are unstable and lead to a single bright soliton. Finally, we show that the lifespan of two hump solitons increases depending on the length thrust range of the kicked initial condition.     

Effects of an electric field on the confined hydrogen impurity states in a spherical parabolic quantum dot

In this paper, we studied the effects of an electric field on a hydrogenic impurity confined in a spherical parabolic quantum dot using nondegenerate and degenerate perturbation methods. The binding energies of the ground and three low-excited states are calculated as a function of the confinement strength and as a function of the intensity of an applied electric field. Moreover, we computed the oscillator strength and the second-order nonlinear optical rectification coefficient based on the computed energies and wave functions. The results show that the electric and optical properties of hydrogenic impurity states are strongly affected by the confinement strength and the applied electric field.