| Abstract: | The perturbed nonlinear Schrodinger equation (PNLSE) describes the pulse propagation in optical fibers, which results from the interaction of the higher-order dispersion effect, self-steepening (SS) and self-phase modulation (SPM). The challenge between these aforementioned phenomena may lead to a dominant one among them. It is worth noticing that the study of modulation instability (MI) leads to the inspection of dominant phenomena (DPh). Indeed, the MI triggers when the coefficient of DPh exceeds a critical value and it may occur that the interaction leads to wave compression. The PNLSE is currently studied in the literature, mainly on finding traveling wave solutions. Here, we are concerned with analyzing the similarity solutions of the PNLSE. The exact solutions are obtained via introducing similarity transformations and by using the extended unified method. The solutions are evaluated numerically and they are shown graphically. It is observed that the intensity of the pulses exhibits self steepening which progresses to shock soliton in ultra-short time (or near t = 0). Also, it is found that the real part of the solution exhibits self-phase modulation in time. The study of (MI) determines the critical value for the coefficients of SS, SPM, or high dispersivity to occur. |
