Descalzi Orazio, Brand Helmut R
Complex Systems Group, Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Aplicadas, Universidad de los Andes, Avenida Monseñor Álvaro del Portillo 12.455, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile and Department of Physics, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany.
Department of Physics, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2014 Aug;90(2):020901. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.90.020901. Epub 2014 Aug 4.
We study the interaction of quasi-one-dimensional (quasi-1D) dissipative solitons (DSs). Starting with quasi-1D solutions of the cubic-quintic complex Ginzburg-Landau (CGL) equation in their temporally asymptotic state as the initial condition, we find, as a function of the approach velocity and the real part of the cubic interaction of the two counterpropagating envelopes: interpenetration, one compound state made of both envelopes or two compound states. For the latter class both envelopes show DSs superposed at two different locations. The stability of this class of compound states is traced back to the quasilinear growth rate associated with the coupled system. We show that this mechanism also works for 1D coupled cubic-quintic CGL equations. For quasi-1D states that are not in their asymptotic state before the collision, a breakup along the crest can be observed, leading to nonunique results after the collision of quasi-1D states.
