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We study localized waves on continuous wave background in an exponential dispersion decreasing fiber with two orthogonal polarization states. We demonstrate that asymmetric W-shaped and M-shaped soliton pulse can be generated from a weak modulation on continuous wave background. The numerical simulation results indicate that the generated asymmetric soliton pulses are robust against small noise or perturbation. In particular, the asymmetric degree of the asymmetric soliton pulse can be effectively controlled by changing the relative frequency of the two components. This character can be used to generate other nonlinear localized waves, such as dark–antidark and antidark–dark soliton pulse pair, symmetric W-shaped and M-shaped soliton pulse. Furthermore, we find that the asymmetric soliton pulse possesses an asymmetric discontinuous spectrum.
Optical localized waves have recently become a topic of intense research in nonlinear fiber system, such as bright soliton, dark soliton, breather, and rogue wave.[1–8] Considering the modes are usually more than 1, many studies have been done to find out if there are some new excitation properties in coupled systems. Explicitly, it is found that there are much more abundant localized waves in coupled systems, such as vector solitons,[9–12] vector rogue waves,[13–17] and vector breathers.[13,14,18] These vector localized waves demonstrate many dynamics properties different from the scalar ones. However, most of them admit symmetric profile in temporal distribution. We would like to find if there can be some asymmetric solitons in nonlinear fiber systems.
On the other hand, a soliton is usually obtained from localized pulses.[19] Recent studies suggested that it is possible to obtain rogue waves from weak modulations on continuous wave background (CWB).[20,21] If we can find some ways to stabilize the rogue wave signals, then it is possible to obtain soliton pulse from weak modulations on CWB. Moreover, modulational instability (MI) plays an important role in the dynamics of a nonlinear localized wave.[22] These characters have been used to obtain the soliton in the exponential dispersion decreasing fiber with one component.[23,24] Considering the MI character in coupled systems is different from the ones in uncoupled systems, we expect that there are some different dynamical processes in an exponential dispersion decreasing fiber with two orthogonally polarized states.
In this paper, we study nonlinear excitation in an exponential dispersion decreasing fiber with two orthogonal polarization states. We demonstrate asymmetric W-shaped and M-shaped soliton pulses are generated from a weak modulation on CWB in the fiber, in contrast to symmetric ones obtained before. The numerical results indicate that the generated asymmetric soliton pulses are robust against small noise or perturbation. The dynamical process is explained by qualitatively based MI analysis, which evolves from MI regime to modulational stability (MS) regime. In particular, the asymmetric degree of the asymmetric soliton pulse can be controlled effectively by changing the relative frequency of two components, which is used to generate other type soliton pulses. Furthermore, spectral analysis is carried out on the asymmetric soliton pulse. It is shown that the spectrum is asymmetric and discontinuous. The results provide a possible way to obtain asymmetric soliton pulses from weak modulations, which is different from previous methods.
The paper is organized as follows. In Section
Nonlinear waves in single mode fiber (SMF) have been studied extensively, because of its important application in telecommunications system.[1–3] Most single-mode fiber is not truly single mode, because it usually involves two orthogonally polarized states. For real fibers, the two orthogonally polarized states usually are not degenerate but mixed randomly, which is called randomly birefringent optical fiber.[25] But when we discuss soliton dynamics under the case with relatively low-polarization mode dispersion, the group velocity difference between the two can be eliminated by a transformation.[25] Then, the propagation of two orthogonally polarized optical pulses can be described by Manakov equations.[26] Moreover, dispersion coefficient can be manipulated well in both theory and experiment.[25,27–32] Nonlinearity management was performed in Bose–Einstein condensates[33] and nonlinearity strength was manipulated well in optics using femtosecond pulses and layered Kerr media consisting of glass and air,[34] which provides possibilities to manipulate nonlinearity in Kerr optical fiber. Therefore, we introduce β(z) and g(z) to describe manipulations on the dispersion and nonlinear coefficients, respectively. Then the evolution of two orthogonally polarized optical pulses is written as:
We study the evolutions of weak modulations on generalized CWBs as φ10 = se[i 4s2 z],
Based on the derived solutions, we find some different excitation patterns in this model, such as asymmetric W-shaped and M-shaped soliton pulses, dark–antidark (DAD) and antidark–dark (ADD) soliton pulse pair, symmetric W-shaped and M-shaped soliton pulse. To our knowledge, solitons are usually obtained from localized pulses.[19] However, the dynamical behaviors of soliton pulse excitation here are different, which shows that soliton pulses are generated from a weak modulation on continuous wave background.
In order to provide reference to experimental research, we transform the dimensionless parameters to experimental parameters by the parameters of a highly nonlinear fiber (OFS Speciality Fiber) with dispersion β = −8.85 × 10−28 s2 · m−1 and nonlinear g = 0.01 W−1 · m−1, as the ones in real experiment.[1] Under above parameters and input power P0 = 0.4 W, the dimensional distance ξ (in unit m), time τ (in unit ps) and frequency ω (in unit THz) are related to the normalized parameters by ξ = z LNL (m), τ = t t0 (in unit ps) and ω = Ω ω0 (in unit THz), where the characteristic length is LNL = (g P0)−1 = 250 m, times scale t0 = (|β|LNL)1/2 = 0.47 ps and frequency scale ω0 = (|β|LNL)−1/2 = 2.13 THz. All following discussions are made with these parameter settings.
We show the dynamical process in Fig.
However, after a certain distance, their changing rates tend to zero, namely, the profiles of soliton pulse are kept well. We can see the stable soliton pulses in two components are different. In order to present it more clearly, we demonstrate the profile of the soliton pulse at different distances in Fig.
In order to prove the feasibility of process for asymmetric soliton pulse generation, we numerically test Eq. (
Then, what about the mechanism for asymmetric soliton pulse generated from a weak modulation. It is well known that MI can be used to explain the dynamics of different localized nonlinear waves.[49] The standard linear instability analysis is performed on CWBs (φ10 = sei [4s2(1−β)] and
Interestingly, the profile of asymmetric soliton pulse can be varied through changing some physical parameters. Next, we discuss how to control the soliton pulse profile in the exponential dispersion decreasing fiber.
We define a symmetric degree to characterize the asymmetric property of the soliton pulse accurately under two different situations. For W-shaped soliton pulse, the symmetric degree is defined as When ωr = 0 THz, the symmetric degree will be Θ(ωr) = 1 and the soliton pulse is “symmetry W-shaped soliton pulse”. Similar soliton state was obtained in Sasa-Satsuma equation[47] and coupled defocusing Hirota equation.[48] When 0 THz < ωr < 2.13 THz, the Θ(ωr) decreases quickly and the soliton pulse state is “asymmetry W-shaped soliton pulse”, which is different from the former research.[47,48] When ωr = 2.13 THz, the Θ(ωr) reaches a minimum value and the soliton pulse state is “AD-D pair”, which is similar to the result in Ref. [50]. When ωr > 2.13 THz, the Θ(ωr) increases with ωr . It is interesting that the soliton pulse state shows inversion phenomenon, which possesses one valley and two crests and is named “asymmetry M-shaped soliton pulse”. When ωr → ∞, the Θ(ωr) slowly approaches 1 and the soliton pulse state will be converted into “symmetry M-shaped soliton pulse”.
![]() | Fig. 4. (color online) The symmetric degree Θ(ωr) changes with ωr in two components: (a) for component φ2, (b) for component φ1. The parameters are a = 1, b = −1, s = 1, γ = 0.5, and ξ0 = 750 m. |
The state conversions in the component φ1 are shown in Fig.
In this section, we demonstrate that asymmetric and symmetric soliton pulses can be controllably generated from a dispersion modulation. The dynamics of them are shown in temporal distribution. However, measuring the exact wave profiles in time domain can be problematic, but spectra measurement is a well developed technique which is supported by a multiplicity of devices used in experimental optics.[51,52] In the next section, we characterize the spectrum of the asymmetric soliton pulse.
The spectrum analysis is carried out through Fourier transformation,
The solution can be written in the form of a constant background pulsing a signal. The Fourier transformation of constant background is infinity and thus it can be represented as δ(Ω − Ω0), and then we can eliminate the δ function and obtain the spectrum of soliton pulse. We represent above spectrum intensity using a logarithmic density scale truncated at −40 dB relative to the maximum value. The corresponding spectrum density of soliton pulse in component φ1 and φ2 is
In component φ1, the spectral distribution is asymmetric on the two sides of background frequency. The spectrum density on the lower frequency (compared with background frequency) is much higher than the one on higher frequency. This result comes from the asymmetry of soliton pulse, which is different from the spectrum of soliton reported previously.[24] In component φ2, the spectral distribution is still asymmetric, but the higher spectrum density is on the higher frequency. Moreover, it is seen that there are discontinuity points on the spectral distribution. Therefore, the spectrum is named as “asymmetric discontinuous spectrum”. The degree of discontinuity achieves maximum at ξ = 750 m, then it decreases slowly with propagation distance and tends to a constant. The final degree of discontinuity is determined by the asymmetric property of soliton pulse.
In summary, we obtain a series of asymmetric and symmetric soliton pulses generated from a weak modulation in an exponential dispersion decreasing fiber. The quantitative relations between state transition (variation of symmetric degree) and relative frequency are summarized in Table
![]() | Table 1.
Quantitative relations between the state conversion (variation of symmetric degree) and the relative frequency ωr. . |
Now, based on the dynamics formation process of asymmetric soliton pulse, we discuss the feasible experimental scheme and perform a numerical test. The formation process of dynamics is as follows. A weak perturbation on the continuous wave backgrounds rapidly grows into a high energy pulse under the modulational instability (MI) regimes, then decays slowly due to the inhibited MI which is caused by dispersion and nonlinear management, and finally evolves into a stable asymmetric soliton pulse corresponding to modulational stability (MS) regimes. The process of MI growth is consistent with the dynamic process which experimentally stimulates the dark rogue wave in Manakov system.[36] Moreover, the experiments show that both the dispersion and nonlinearity coefficient can be manipulated in some way.[33,34,42] We only need to inject two weak orthogonally polarized optical pulses into a randomly birefringent dispersion optical fiber in the same way as Ref. [36] and set the dominant frequency of optical pulses equal to the one of continuous wave background. The relative frequency of continuous wave backgrounds and other parameters in two components are set as shown in Fig.
A dispersion manipulation on defocusing fiber demonstrated some striking dynamical behaviors[53] and CWB has been used widely to generate rogue wave and breather.[1,3] Recently, optical dark rogue wave has been observed in Manakov system.[36] Based on the developed phase and density manipulation techniques and dispersion manipulation experiment, we believe the results in this paper would be tested experimentally in the near future.
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