Authors

M. Chen; D. J. Kaup;B. A. Malomed

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Phys. Rev. E

Keywords

EMBEDDED SOLITONS; SOLITARY WAVES; OPTICAL SOLITONS; SPATIAL SOLITONS; PHYSICS; FIBERS; LIGHT; Physics, Fluids & Plasmas; Physics, Mathematical

Abstract

We formulate a general model of three-wave optical interactions (in the spatial domain), which combines quadratic (chi((2))) and cubic (chi((3))) nonlinearities, the latter including four-wave mixing. The model can be realized in chi((2)) materials where an effective chi((3)) nonlinearity is engineered by means of the quasi-phase-matching technique. Both self-focusing and self-defocusing chi((3)) nonlinearities are considered. The birefringence of the two fundamental-frequency (FF) waves is taken into regard. Several types of solitons in this system are found, by means of the variational approximation and numerical methods. These are exact single-component solitons and generic three-wave (3W) ones, which are classified by relative signs of their components. Stability of the solitons is investigated by means of the Vakhitov-Kolokolov (VK) criterion, and then tested by direct simulations. One type of the single-component FF solitons (the "fast" one, in terms of the known two-component birefringent chi((3)) model) is, chiefly, unstable, as in that model, but nevertheless a stability interval is found for it, which provides for the first example of stable fast solitons. The other FF soliton (the "slow" one, in terms of the same chi((3)) model, where it is always stable) has its stability and instability regions. A single-component soliton in the second harmonic (SH) is found too; it also has its stability region, contrary to the common belief that such a soliton must always be unstable due to the parametric interaction. The 3W solitons are stable indeed if this is predicted by the VK condition, in the case when all the three components are positive. Following variation of the chi((2)) mismatch parameter, the 3W soliton bifurcates from the SH one, and at another point it bifurcates back into the slow-FF single-component soliton; conjectured normal forms of the respective bifurcations are given. 3W solitons with different signs of their components may be unstable contrary to the VK criterion, which is explained by consideration of the chi((2)) term in the system's Hamiltonian. In direct simulations, unstable solitons evolve into stable breathers. A different instability takes place in the case of the self-defocusing chi((3)) nonlinearity, when all the solitons blow up into a turbulent state. Parallel to the solitons, continuous-wave solutions are studied too. In terms of the existence and stability, they resemble solitons of similar types.

Journal Title

Physical Review E

Volume

69

Issue/Number

5

Publication Date

1-1-2004

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

17

WOS Identifier

WOS:000221813400093

ISSN

1539-3755

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