Stability and interaction of few-cycle pulses in a Kerr medium.

Abstract

The different aspects of few-cycle pulse dynamics governed by the regularized short pulse equation (RSPE) are reported. It is shown that the RSPE provides an accurate description of the dynamics of the few-cycle pulse whose duration is larger than a single optical period when the few-cycle pulse's spectrum is in the medium's anomalous dispersion regime. The approximate solutions of the RSPE are constructed from the soliton solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation. We demonstrate numerically that the stability of these few-cycle pulses strongly depends on their pulse duration. Furthermore, the interactions of the two and three few-cycle pulses are studied. When pulse parameters are suitably chosen, we show the elastic collision, inelastic collision and repulsive interaction between these multi few-cycle pulses. It is revealed that the interactions of the multi few-cycle pulses rely heavily on their pulse duration.