W-shaped profile and breather-like soliton of the fractional nonlinear Schrödinger equation describing the polarization mode in optical fibers

Abstract

We use the fractional nonlinear Schrödinger equation (FNLSE) to describe the polarization mode in optical fiber with Self-Steepening, Self-Frequency Shift, and Cubic-quintic terms to analyze the effects of the fractional time parameter (FTP) on bright and dark solitons as well as breather-like solitons. We use the transformation hypothesis and auxiliary equations method to obtain three families of solutions such as combined bright soliton, dark solitons, and rational solitons. We have shown the effects of the fractional parameter (FP) on the W-shaped profile, bright and dark optical soliton solutions as well as the corresponding chirp component. It is observed that for small values of the FP, optical soliton shape is affected and the soliton is unstable. Moreover, one observes the effects of fraction time on Modulation Instability (MI) gain spectra and MI bands. For certain values of the FP, it is formed sides lobes and for specific small values of the FP, both stability zone increases and amplitude of the MI gain increase while the stability zones increase. To confirm the robustness of the analytical results, we have used a numerical investigation. One exhibits the formation of breathers-like soliton with stable amplitude for small values of the FTP. It results from this study that the FP is efficient and can be used as an energy source where soliton or breathers-like soliton are involved for communication in optical fibers.