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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 104, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.104.013506
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- Australian Research Council (ARC) [DP180102234]
- Asian Office of Aerospace RD (AOARD) [FA2386-19-1-4067]
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The study investigates the self-similar propagation of optical pulses in certain conditions and shows that the intensity profile of the pulses follows a specific function form with a scaling relation. The results are complex but consistent with numerical simulations.
We investigate theoretically and numerically the self-similar propagation of optical pulses in the presence of gain, positive Kerr nonlinearity, and positive (i.e., normal) dispersion of even order m. Starting from a modified nonlinear Schrodinger equation, separating the evolution of amplitude and phase, we find that the resulting equations simplify considerably in the asymptotic limit. Exact solutions to the resulting equations indicate that the temporal intensity profile follows a 1 - Tm/(m-1) function with an m-dependent scaling relation, with a T1/(m-1) chirp, where T is the pulse's local time. These correspond to a triangle and a step function, respectively, as m -> infinity. These results are borne out by numerical simulations, although we do observe indications of nonasymptotic behavior.
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