Analytic study on certain solitons in an erbium-doped optical fibre

( )-dimensional non-linear optical waves through the coherently excited resonant medium doped with the erbium atoms can be described by a -dimensional non-linear Schrödinger equation coupled with the self-induced transparency equations. For such a system, via the Hirota method and symbolic computati...

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Published in:Journal of modern optics 2017-02, Vol.64 (4), p.366-373
Main Authors: Chai, Jun, Tian, Bo, Zhen, Hui-Ling, Chai, Han-Peng
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Atomic properties
dimensional non-linear optical waves
Electric fields
erbium-doped optical fibre
Fiber optics
Mathematical analysis
Nonlinearity
Population inversion
Schroedinger equation
soliton interaction
soliton solution
Solitons
symbolic computation
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Summary:( )-dimensional non-linear optical waves through the coherently excited resonant medium doped with the erbium atoms can be described by a -dimensional non-linear Schrödinger equation coupled with the self-induced transparency equations. For such a system, via the Hirota method and symbolic computation, linear forms, one-, two- and N-soliton solutions are obtained. Asymptotic analysis is conducted and suggests that the interaction between the two solitons is elastic. Bright solitons are obtained for the fields E and P, while the dark ones for the field N, with E as the electric field, P as the polarization in the resonant medium induced by the electric field, and N as the population inversion profile of the dopant atoms. Head-on interaction between the bidirectional two solitons and overtaking interaction between the unidirectional two solitons are seen. Influence of the averaged natural frequency on the solitons are studied: (1) can affect the velocities of all the solitons; (2) Amplitudes of the solitons for the fields P and N increase with decreasing, and decrease with increasing; (3) With decreasing, for the fields P and N, one-peak one soliton turns into the two-peak one, as well as interaction type changes from the interaction between two one-peak ones to that between a one-peak one and a two-peak one; (4) For the field E, influence of on the solitons cannot be found. The results of this paper might be of potential applications in the design of optical communication systems which can produce the bright and dark solitons simultaneously.
ISSN:0950-0340
1362-3044
DOI:10.1080/09500340.2016.1239776