Collision-induced amplitude dynamics of fast 2D solitons in saturable nonlinear media with weak nonlinear loss

Abstract: We study the amplitude dynamics of two-dimensional (2D) solitons in a fast collision described by the coupled nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with a saturable nonlinearity and weak nonlinear loss. We extend the perturbative technique for calculating the collision-induced dynamics of two one-dimensional (1D) solitons to derive the theoretical expression for the collision-induced amplitude dynamics in a fast collision of two 2D solitons. Our perturbative approach is based on two major steps. The first step is the standard adiabatic perturbation for the calculations on the energy balance of perturbed solitons and the second step, which is the crucial one, is for the analysis of the collision-induced change in the envelope of the perturbed 2D soliton. Furthermore, we also present the dependence of the collision-induced amplitude shift on the angle of the two 2D colliding-solitons. In addition, we show that the current perturbative technique can be simply applied to study the collision-induced amplitude shift in a fast collision of two perturbed 1D solitons. Our analytic calculations are confirmed by numerical simulations with the corresponding coupled nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations in the presence of the cubic loss and in the presence of the quintic loss.