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Second-harmonic generation in the system with fractional diffraction

Pattern Formation and Solitons 2023-07-19 v2 Optics

Abstract

We construct a family of bright optical solitons composed of fundamental frequency (FF) and second-harmonic (SH) components in the one-dimensional (planar) waveguide with the quadratic (second-harmonic-generating) nonlinearity and effective fractional diffraction, characterized by the Levy index {\alpha}, taking values between 2 and 0.5, which correspond to the non-fractional diffraction and critical collapse, respectively. The existence domain and stability boundary for the solitons are delineated in the space of {\alpha}, FF-SH mismatch parameter, and propagation constant. The stability boundary is tantamount to that predicted by the Vakhitov-Kolokolov criterion, while unstable solitons spontaneously evolve into localized breathers. A sufficiently weak transverse kick applied to the stable solitons excite small internal vibrations in the stable solitons, without setting them in motion. A stronger kick makes the solitons' trajectories tilted, simultaneously destabilizing the solitons.

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@article{arxiv.2306.06555,
  title  = {Second-harmonic generation in the system with fractional diffraction},
  author = {Pengfei Li and Hidetsugu Sakaguchi and Liangwei Zeng and Xing Zhu and Dumitru Mihalache and Boris A. Malomed},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.06555},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

27 pages, 8 figures, to be published in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals

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