Multi-focusing and sustained dissipation in the dissipative nonlinear Schrödinger equation Original Research Article

The possibility of physically relevant singular solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with sustained dissipation into the singularity is considered through numerical study of a nonlinear dissipative regularisation and its small dissipation limit. A new form of such dissipative solutions is conjectured for certain parameter ranges where this behaviour was previously not expected, including the two-dimensional case of laser self-focusing, involving a multi-focusing mechanism. The space and time structure of such solutions for very small values of the nonlinear dissipation parameter is studied numerically and compared to a conjectured mechanism related to a new family of stationary singular solutions of the NLSE.