We introduce soliton percolation phenomena in the nonlinear transport of light packets in suitable optical lattices with random properties. Specifically, we address lattices with a gradient of the refractive index in the transverse plane, featuring stochastic phase or amplitude fluctuations, and we discover the existence of a disorder-induced transition between soliton insulator and soliton-con...

We present experimental and numerical results showing the generation and breakup of the Peregrine soliton in standard telecommunications fiber. The impact of nonideal initial conditions is studied through direct cutback measurements of the longitudinal evolution of the emerging soliton dynamics and is shown to be associated with the splitting of the Peregrine soliton into two subpulses, with ea...

In this paper, we prove that a complete noncompact non-flat conformally flat gradient steady Ricci soliton is, up to scaling, the Bryant soliton. 1. The result A complete Riemannian metric gij on a smooth manifold M n is called a gradient steady Ricci soliton if there exists a smooth function F on M such that the Ricci tensor Rij of the metric gij is given by the Hessian of F : Rij = ∇i∇jF. (1....

The interaction and propagation of optical pulses in a nonlinear waveguide array is described by the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation i∂zψn = −D(ψn+1 + ψn−1 − 2ψn) − γ|ψn|ψn, (1) whereD is a dispersion (or diffraction) coefficient, and γ is a measure of the nonlinearity. By means of the variational approximation, we study the discrete soliton solutions of this equation. We use a trial fu...

We study semianalytically soliton dynamics in a soliton-based communication line for which the amplifier spacing is larger than the soliton period (referred to as the quasi-adiabatic regime). This regime allows us to overcome the limit on the soliton duration (TFWHM , 15 ps) imposed by the average-soliton regime. Our calculations show that periodically stable propagation of short solitons (TFWH...

We describe an iterative method that extracts the underlying soliton from a noisy pulse. The method is formulated as a functional iteration: at each step, the soliton component of the difference between the noisy pulse and the current underlying soliton is determined via soliton perturbation theory; this is then added to the soliton, and the process is repeated. We show that this iteration conv...

A dark soliton becomes unstable when it is incident on a background density gradient, and the induced instability results in the emission of sound. Detailed quantitative studies of sound emission are performed for various potentials, such as steps, linear ramps and gaussian traps. The amount of sound emission is found to be a significant fraction of the soliton energy for typical potentials. Co...

The dissipative soliton regime is one of the most advanced ways to generate high-energy femtosecond pulses in mode-locked lasers. On the other hand, the stimulated Raman scattering in a fibre laser may convert the excess energy out of the coherent dissipative soliton to a noisy Raman pulse, thus limiting its energy. Here we demonstrate that intracavity feedback provided by re-injection of a Ram...

Abstract: In this paper, through a new transformation, the combined KdvBurgers equation with variable coefficients(vcKdvB) is reduced to a new simplified equation.Based on the homogeneous balance principle(HBP),we studied the Backlund transformation(BT) and several exact soliton-like solutions to this vcKdvB equation. Including single kink-like solitary wave solutions, double-soliton-like solut...