| Abstract: | We have observed the effect of a saturated nonlinearity on the process of spontaneous soliton formation in a weakly nonlinear medium with absorption. The characteristic properties of the problem are investigated on the basis of a model equation designated as a nonlinear Schrodinger equation with small perturbations describing the saturation of the nonlinearity and the absorption. The stability of the process of decay of the initial pulse is demonstrated by computational methods for a few specific cases. An effect described as an oscillation of the amplitude maximum of the formed pulse has been discovered.V. D. Kuznetsov Siberian Physicotechnical Institute, Tomsk University. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 6, pp. 73–76, June, 1995. |
