Exact soliton solutions, shape changing collisions and partially coherent solitons in coupled nonlinear Schroedinger equations

2001/03/09 by T. Kanna, M. Lakshmanan · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #nlin.SI

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.86.5043

4 pages, RevTex, 1 EPS figure To appear in Physical Review Letters

arxiv created 2001/03/09 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We present the exact bright one-soliton and two-soliton solutions of the integrable three coupled nonlinear Schroedinger equations (3-CNLS) by using the Hirota method, and then obtain them for the general N-coupled nonlinear Schroedinger equations (N-CNLS). It is pointed out that the underlying solitons undergo inelastic (shape changing) collisions due to intensity redistribution among the modes. We also analyse the various possibilities and conditions for such collisions to occur. Further, we report the significant fact that the various partial coherent solitons (PCS) discussed in the literature are special cases of the higher order bright soliton solutions of the N-CNLS equations.

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