Fractional calculus is entering the field of nonlinear optics to describe unconventional regimes, as disorder biological media and soft-matter. Here we investigate spatiotemporal modulational instability (MI) in a fractional nonlinear Schr�dinger equation. We derive the MI gain spectrum in terms of the L�vy indexes and a varying number of spatial dimensions. We show theoretically and numerically that the L�vy indexes affect fastest growth frequencies and MI bandwidth and gain. Our results unveil a very rich scenario that may occur in the propagation of ultrashort pulses in random media and metamaterials, and may sustain novel kinds of propagation invariant optical bullets.
Modulational instability in fractional nonlinear Schrodinger equation / Zhang, Lifu; He, Zenghui; Conti, Claudio; Wang, Zhiteng; Hu, Yonghua; Lei, Dajun; Li, Ying; Fan, Dianyuan. - In: COMMUNICATIONS IN NONLINEAR SCIENCE & NUMERICAL SIMULATION. - ISSN 1007-5704. - STAMPA. - 48:(2017), pp. 531-540. [10.1016/j.cnsns.2017.01.019]
Modulational instability in fractional nonlinear Schrodinger equation
Conti, Claudio;
2017
Abstract
Fractional calculus is entering the field of nonlinear optics to describe unconventional regimes, as disorder biological media and soft-matter. Here we investigate spatiotemporal modulational instability (MI) in a fractional nonlinear Schr�dinger equation. We derive the MI gain spectrum in terms of the L�vy indexes and a varying number of spatial dimensions. We show theoretically and numerically that the L�vy indexes affect fastest growth frequencies and MI bandwidth and gain. Our results unveil a very rich scenario that may occur in the propagation of ultrashort pulses in random media and metamaterials, and may sustain novel kinds of propagation invariant optical bullets.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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