Controllable optical rogue waves: Recurrence, annihilation and sustainment

We investigate optical rogue waves in nonlinear optical fiber with group-velocity dispersion, cubic nonlinearity and linear gain managements. We present conditions for controlling the dynamics of optical pulses via a lens-type transformation. By properly choosing the distributed coefficients, we demonstrate analytically that rogue waves can be restrained or even be annihilated, emerge periodically and sustain forever. We also figure out the center-of-mass motion of rogue waves. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.