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In the fiber communication domain, people are facing the challenges due to the rapidly growing requirement on the capacity from new functions and services. Multi-hump solitons are therefore noticed and studied on the feasibility of improving the capacity of the optical fiber communication. In this paper, we study the vector bright solitons and their interaction properties of the coupled Fokas–Lenells system, which models the femtosecond optical pulses in a birefringent optical fiber. We derive the so-called degenerate and nondegenerate vector solitons associated with the one and two eigenvalues, respectively, and the latter admits the symmetric profile. Asymptotically and graphically, interaction patterns of such solitons are classified as follows: Interactions between the degenerate solitons can be elastic or inelastic, reflecting the intensity redistribution between the two components; Interactions between the degenerate and nondegenerate solitons are inelastic, which make the nondegenerate solitons maintaining or losing the profiles in the different situations; Interactions between the nondegenerate solitons do not cause the intensity redistribution, while their shapes change slightly or remain unchanged.
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Definition of the amplitudes are similar to those in Manakov system [46].
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This work has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 11772017, 11272023 and 11805020, by the Fund of State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), China (IPOC: 2017ZZ05), and by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China under Grant No. 2011BUPTYB02.
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Appendix A
Furthermore, \(u_{\alpha }[N]\) can be rewritten as
where
Supposing that \(v_{1}<v_{2}<\cdots <v_{N}\) and \(\theta _{1R},\theta _{2R},\ldots ,\theta _{k-1,R}\rightarrow -\infty ; \theta _{k+1,R},\theta _{k+2,R},\ldots ,\theta _{N,R}\rightarrow +\infty \) along the track \(\tau -v_{k}\xi =\)const as \(\xi \rightarrow -\infty \). It follows that
where
By the same thoughts above, we can derive the asymptotical behavior as \(\xi \rightarrow +\infty \) along the trajectory \(\tau -v_{k}\xi =\text {const}\) with \(\theta _{1R},\theta _{2R},\ldots ,\theta _{k-1,R}\rightarrow +\infty ; \theta _{k+1,R},\theta _{k+2,R},\ldots ,\theta _{N,R}\rightarrow -\infty \). It follows that
where
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Zhang, CR., Tian, B., Qu, QX. et al. Vector bright solitons and their interactions of the couple Fokas–Lenells system in a birefringent optical fiber. Z. Angew. Math. Phys. 71, 18 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00033-019-1225-9
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