Breather-to-soliton transition for a sixth-order nonlinear Schrödinger equation in an optical fiber

Abstract In this letter, breather-to-soliton transition is studied for an integrable sixth-order nonlinear Schrodinger equation in an optical fiber. Constraint for the breather-to-soliton transition is given. Breathers could be transformed into the different types of solitons, which are determined by the values of the real and imaginary parts of the eigenvalues in the Darboux transformation. Interactions of the breathers and breathers, of the breathers and solitons, as well as of the solitons and solitons, are graphically presented.