Science and Mathematics Faculty Publications
On the Construction of Orbits Homoclinic to Plane Waves in Integrable Coupled Nonlinear Schroedinger Systems
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-14-2000
Journal Title
Physics Letters A
Volume
266
Issue
1
First Page
24
Last Page
33
Abstract
Plane waves of coupled NLS PDEs are known to possess self-focusing and cross-coupling instabilities. In the integrable limit of coupled NLS systems, these instabilities are accompanied by homoclinic orbits which asymptotically (in time) approach the unstable plane wave. Here we use the integrable method of Backlund transformations to construct a two-parameter family of exact spatially periodic CNLS solutions, which consist of a plane wave connected to a nonlinear superposition of self-focusing and cross-coupling homoclinic orbits.
Keywords
[pacs] 02.30.Jr, [pacs] 42.65.Sf, Backlund transformation, Gauge transformation, Lax pair, Homoclinic orbit, Coupling instability
Recommended Citation
Forest, M. G., Sheu, S. P., & Wright, O. C. (2000). On the Construction of Orbits Homoclinic to Plane Waves in Integrable Coupled Nonlinear Schroedinger Systems. Physics Letters A, 266, 24-33.
