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Solitons in nonlinear optics holds a special role both in theoretical and experimental studies. Several types of evolution equations are seen to govern different situation of physical relevance. One such is the existence of both resonant…
A method for approximating dark soliton solutions of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation under the influence of perturbations is presented. The problem is broken into an inner region, where core of the soliton resides, and an outer region,…
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The focusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation possesses special non-dispersive solitary type solutions, solitons. Under certain spectral assumptions we show existence and asymptotic stability of solutions with the asymptoic profile (as time…
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The long-time asymptotic behavior of solutions to the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation on the line with symmetric, nonzero boundary conditions at infinity is studied in the case of initial conditions that allow for the…
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The existence, stability and other dynamical properties of a new type of multi-dimensional (2D or 3D) solitons supported by a transverse low-dimensional (1D or 2D, respectively) periodic potential in the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation…
We present a method to solve initial-boundary value problems for linear and integrable nonlinear differential-difference evolution equations. The method is the discrete version of the one developed by A. S. Fokas to solve initial-boundary…
We present a novel approximation method that can predict the number of solitons asymptotically appearing under arbitrary rapidly decreasing initial wave packets. The number of solitons can be estimated without integration of the original…
We discover that at the edge of optical lattice imprinted in saturable nonlinear media one-dimensional surface solitons exist only within a band of light intensities, and that they cease to exist when the lattice depth exceeds an upper…
We consider the cubic-quintic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation: \[ i\partial_t u = -\Delta u - |u|^2u + |u|^4u. \] In the first part of the paper, we analyze the one-parameter family of ground-state solitons associated to this equation with…
In a previous paper (Matsuno 2011 {\it J. Phys. A: Math. Theore.} {\bf 44} 495202), we have presented a determinantal expression of the bright $N$-soliton solution for a multi-component modified nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) system with…
Using the numerical solution of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation and a variational method it is shown that (3+1)-dimensional spatiotemporal optical solitons, known as light bullets, can be stabilized in a layered Kerr medium with…
We investigate the existence and linear stability of solitons in the nonlinear Schr\"odinger lattices in the strong coupling regime. Focusing and defocusing nonlinearities are considered, giving rise to bright and dark solitons. In this…
It is well known that the linear stability of solutions of partial differential equations which are integrable can be very efficiently investigated by means of spectral methods. We present here a direct construction of the eigenmodes of the…
A method is presented to construct exactly solvable nonlinear extensions of the Schr\"odinger equation. The method explores a correspondence which can be established under certain conditions between exactly solvable ordinary Schr\"odinger…
We consider the inverse problem of recovering the optical properties of a highly-scattering medium from acousto-optic measurements. Using such measurements, we show that the scattering and absorption coefficients of the radiative transport…
This work present an affine map approximation for solving the inverse scattering problem related to the nonlinear Schr\"odinger model of signal propagation in high-speed coherent optical communication. Numerical simulations indicate that…
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