Soliton collision in a general coupled nonlinear Schrodinger system via symbolic computation

A general coupled nonlinear Schrodinger system with the self-phase modulation, cross-phase modulation and four-wave mixing terms is investigated. The system is still integrable with the variable coefficients. Through the Hirota bilinear method, one- and two-soliton solutions are derived via symbolic computation. With the asymptotic analysis, it is found that the two-soliton solutions admit the inelastic and elastic collisions depending on the choice of solitonic parameters. A new inelastic collision phenomenon occurring in this system is that both the amplitudes of two components of each soliton get suppressed or enhanced after the collision, which might provide us with a different approach of signal amplification. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.