Propagation dynamics of cosh-Airy beams in Kerr nonlinear media

Abstract

We investigate propagation dynamics of cosh- and cosine-Airy beams in Kerr nonlinear media. The cosh-Airy and cosine-Airy beam can be considered as a superposition of two Airy beams with different decay factors and different propagation trajectories, respectively. It is shown that the solitons shedding from cosh-Airy and cosine-Airy beams and their interaction in both in-phase and out-of-phase cases are strongly dependent on the modulation parameter associated with the cosh function. The interaction between two cosine-Airy beams can exhibit attraction or repulsion under proper interval and initial angle condition in both in-phase and out-of-phase cases.