https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2014-02085-2
Regular Article
Impact of higher-order effects on pulsating and chaotic solitons in dissipative systems
I3N-Institute of Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication, Department of Physics, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
a e-mail: sofia.latas@ua.pt
Received: 11 September 2013
Revised: 25 November 2013
Published online: 23 January 2014
We investigate numerically, both in time and frequency domains, the influence of some higher-order effects, namely the third-order dispersion, intrapulse Raman scattering, and self-steepening, on the dynamics of different pulsating and chaotic solitons in dissipative systems, which are described by a generalized complex Ginzburg-Landau equation. We show that the higher-order effects can have a dramatic impact on the dynamics of such pulses and that, for some ranges of the parameter values, they can be transformed into fixed-shape solitons.
This paper is dedicated to Prof. Helmut Brand on the occasion of his 60th birthday.
© EDP Sciences, Springer-Verlag, 2014
