Generation of bright-dark soliton trains with a central wide dip in optical fibers

The nonlinear propagation dynamics of the dark soliton pulse with hyperbolic tangent profile in the anomalous dispersion regime of an optical fiber is investigated numerically. The corresponding temporal evolutions are provided for different integral or non-integral soliton order and loss perturbations. The results show that, irrespective of the integral or non-integral soliton order, with increase of distance, the width of the dark soliton broadens and more and more bright and dark pulses appear symmetrically on the two sides of the central black soliton. Correspondingly, bright-dark soliton trains with a central wide black soliton can gradually form. The higher the soliton order, the more the bright-dark pulses at the same distance. With increase of distance, the peak values of the bright pulses exhibit oscillation behavior. The loss perturbation only influences the evolutions slightly, which means that the generated soliton trains can resist loss perturbations to some extent. Moreover, this work provides us an alternative approach to generate bright-dark soliton trains by using the dark soliton pulse propagating in the anomalous dispersion regime of the passive optical fiber besides directly using the fiber laser. (C) 2018 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.