Influence of self-steepening on optical-solitary-wave bistability
- 1 April 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 43 (7) , 4047-4049
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.43.4047
Abstract
It is found that inclusion of the self-steepening contribution in the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation allows for the possibility of truly hysteretic bistable solitary-wave behavior, characterized by the appearance of an N-shaped energy curve, for nonlinear functions f(I) that do not support bistability when self-steepening is neglected. This finding is discussed in the framework of one-dimensional optical pulse propagation.Keywords
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