Abstract
We investigate the dynamics of modulation instability (MI) and the corresponding breather solutions to the extended nonlinear Schrödinger equation that describes the full scale growth-decay cycle of MI. As an example, we study modulation instability in connection with the fourth-order equation in detail. The higher-order equations have free parameters that can be used to control the growth-decay cycle of the MI; that is, the growth rate curves, the time of evolution, the maximal amplitude, and the spectral content of the Akhmediev Breather strongly depend on these coefficients.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 123116 |
| Journal | Chaos |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 12 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2018 |