title: Bound vector solitons and soliton complexes for the coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations.
abstract: Dynamic features describing the collisions of the bound vector solitons and soliton complexes are investigated for the coupled nonlinear Schrödinger (CNLS) equations, which model the propagation of the multimode soliton pulses under some physical situations in nonlinear fiber optics. Equations of such type have also been seen in water waves and plasmas. By the appropriate choices of the arbitrary parameters for the multisoliton solutions derived through the Hirota bilinear method, the periodic structures along the propagation are classified according to the relative relations of the real wave numbers. Furthermore, parameters are shown to control the intensity distributions and interaction patterns for the bound vector solitons and soliton complexes. Transformations of the soliton types (shape changing with intensity redistribution) during the collisions of those stationary structures with the regular one soliton are discussed, in which a class of inelastic properties is involved. Discussions could be expected to be helpful in interpreting such structures in the multimode nonlinear fiber optics and equally applied to other systems governed by the CNLS equations, e.g., the plasma physics and Bose-Einstein condensates.
authors.affiliation: Ministry-of-Education Key Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics and National Laboratory for Computational Fluid Dynamics, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Zhi-Yuan
authors.initials: ZY
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Yi-Tian
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Wen-Jun
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001703:Biophysics / Q000379:methods*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D015233:Models, Statistical; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics