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Bin Liu1, Xing-Dao He, Shu-Jing Li
1Key Laboratory of Nondestructive Test (Ministry of Education), Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang, People's Republic of China. liubin_d@126.com
Abstract:
We present a systematic analysis of the outcome of soliton collisions upon variation of the relative phase φ of the solitons, in the two-dimensional cubic-quintic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation in the absence of viscosity. Three generic outcomes are identified: merger of the solitons into a single one, creation of an extra soliton, and quasielastic interaction. The velocities of the merger soliton and the extra soliton can be effectively controlled by φ. In addition, the range of the outcome of creating an extra soliton decreases to zero with the reduction of gain or the increasing of loss. The above features have potential applications in optical switching and logic gates based on interaction of optical solitons.
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