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Characteristics of fixed-shape pulses emerging from pulsating, erupting, and creeping solitons

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It is known that one of the impacts of combined higher-order effects, namely the intrapulse Raman scattering, third-order dispersion, and self-steepening, on the plain-pulsating, erupting, and creeping soliton solutions of the complex Ginzburg–Landau equation is the change of its periodic behavior and its transformation into fixed-shape solutions. In this work, we numerically find the regions in the parameters space in which these solutions exist. We also characterize their velocities, shapes, and chirp.

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We acknowledge Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) for supporting this work through the Projects PTDC/EEA-TEL/105254/2008, PTDC/FIS/112624/2009, and PEst-C/CTM/LA0025/2011.

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  1. Department of Physics, I3N-Institute of Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication, University of Aveiro, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal

    Sofia C. V. Latas, Mário F. S. Ferreira & Margarida V. Facão

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Latas, S.C.V., Ferreira, M.F.S. & Facão, M.V. Characteristics of fixed-shape pulses emerging from pulsating, erupting, and creeping solitons. Appl. Phys. B 116, 279–286 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-013-5685-x

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